Bible Reading
June 14
The World English Bible
June
13
1
Samuel 19, 20
1Sa
19:1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in
David.
1Sa
19:2 Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you:
now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live
in a secret place, and hide yourself:
1Sa
19:3 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where
you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see
anything, I will tell you.
1Sa
19:4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to
him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have
been very good toward you:
1Sa
19:5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and
Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and
rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David
without a cause?
1Sa
19:6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As
Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.
1Sa
19:7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those
things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence,
as before.
1Sa
19:8 There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled
before him.
1Sa
19:9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house
with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
1Sa
19:10 Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear;
but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear
into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
1Sa
19:11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to
kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying,
If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
1Sa
19:12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and
fled, and escaped.
1Sa
19:13 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a
pillow of goats' hair
at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
1Sa
19:14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
1Sa
19:15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to
me in the bed, that I may kill him.
1Sa
19:16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the
bed, with the pillow of goats' hair
at its head.
1Sa
19:17 Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my
enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me,
Let me go; why should I kill you?
1Sa
19:18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and
told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived
in Naioth.
1Sa
19:19 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:20 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over
them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:21 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also
prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is
in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said,
Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came
on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth
in Ramah.
1Sa
19:24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied
before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1Sa
20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" and
"What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
1Sa
20:2 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold,
my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses
it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not
so."
1Sa
20:3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well
that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let
Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives,
and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
1Sa
20:4 Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever your soul desires,
I will even do it for you."
1Sa
20:5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon,
and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I
may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
1Sa
20:6 If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the
yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'
1Sa
20:7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if
he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
1Sa
20:8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought
your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in
me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your
father?"
1Sa
20:9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all
know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then
wouldn't I tell you that?"
1Sa
20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if
perchance your father answers you roughly?"
1Sa
20:11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the
field." They both went out into the field.
1Sa
20:12 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, be
witness: when I have sounded my father
about this time tomorrow, or
the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not
then send to you, and disclose it to you?
1Sa
20:13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my
father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you
away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has
been with my father.
1Sa
20:14 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving
kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
1Sa
20:15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house
forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David
everyone from the surface of the earth."
1Sa
20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,
Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
1Sa
20:17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had
to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1Sa
20:18 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you
will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
1Sa
20:19 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly,
and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business
was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
1Sa
20:20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a
mark.
1Sa
20:21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying,
Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on
this side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and
no hurt, as Yahweh lives.
1Sa
20:22 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond
you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
1Sa
20:23 As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold,
Yahweh is between you and me forever.
1Sa
20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
come, the king sat him down to eat food.
1Sa
20:25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat
by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but
David's place was empty.
1Sa
20:26 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he
thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is
not clean.
1Sa
20:27 It happened on the next day after the new moon, which
was the second day,
that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why
doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
1Sa
20:28 Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to
go to Bethlehem:
1Sa
20:29 and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice
in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me to
be there: and now, if I have found favor
in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers.
Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
1Sa
20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to
him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you
have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of
your mother's nakedness?
1Sa
20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall
not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring
him to me, for he shall surely die.
1Sa
20:32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why
should he be put to death? What has he done?"
1Sa
20:33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan
knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
1Sa
20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no
food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David,
because his father had done him shame.
1Sa
20:35 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the
field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
1Sa
20:36 He said to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. As
the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1Sa
20:37 When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan
had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow
beyond you?
1Sa
20:38 Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay!
Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
1Sa
20:39 But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew
the matter.
1Sa
20:40 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go,
carry them to the city.
1Sa
20:41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of a
place toward the South, and fell on his
face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed
one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
1Sa
20:42 Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn
both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be between me
and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. He arose and
departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
June
14
1
Samuel 21, 22
1Sa
21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech
came to meet David trembling, and said to him, Why are you alone, and
no man with you?
1Sa
21:2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a
business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the
business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I
have appointed the young men to such and such a place.
1Sa
21:3 Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of
bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
1Sa
21:4 The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread
under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have
kept themselves from women.
1Sa
21:5 David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women
have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the
vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common
journey; how much more then today shall their vessels be holy?
1Sa
21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread;
for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from
before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1Sa
21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best
of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
1Sa
21:8 David said to Ahimelech, Isn't there here under your hand spear
or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me,
because the king's business required haste.
1Sa
21:9 The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you
killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth
behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it; for there is no
other except that here. David said, There is none like that; give it
to me.
1Sa
21:10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to
Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa
21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the
king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in
dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten
thousands?' "
1Sa
21:12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of
Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa
21:13 He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad
in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his
spittle fall down on his beard.
1Sa
21:14 Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is
mad; why then have you brought him to me?
1Sa
21:15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play
the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
1Sa
22:1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of
Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it,
they went down there to him.
1Sa
22:2 Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and
everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he
became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred
men.
1Sa
22:3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of
Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, and
be with you, until I know what God will
do for me.
1Sa
22:4 He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with
him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
1Sa
22:5 The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold;
depart, and go into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came
into the forest of Hereth.
1Sa
22:6 Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with
him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in
Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing
about him.
1Sa
22:7 Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you
Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and
vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of
hundreds,
1Sa
22:8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none
who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse,
and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that
my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at
this day?
1Sa
22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of
Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech
the son of Ahitub.
1Sa
22:10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him food, and gave him
the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
1Sa
22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of
Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and
they came all of them to the king.
1Sa
22:12 Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I
am, my lord.
1Sa
22:13 Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and
the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and
have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie
in wait, as at this day?
1Sa
22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your
servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and
is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
1Sa
22:15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from
me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the
house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less
or more.
1Sa
22:16 The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all
your father's house.
1Sa
22:17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill
the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and
because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the
servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the
priests of Yahweh.
1Sa
22:18 The king said to Doeg, Turn and attack the priests! Doeg the
Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that
day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
1Sa
22:19 Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the
sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle
and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1Sa
22:20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named
Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
1Sa
22:21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests.
1Sa
22:22 David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the
Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned
the death
of all the persons of your father's house.
1Sa
22:23 Stay with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks
your life: for with me you shall be in safeguard.
Jun.
13, 14
John
15
Joh
15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Joh
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away.
Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more
fruit.
Joh
15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have
spoken to you.
Joh
15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by
itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you
remain in me.
Joh
15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and
I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do
nothing.
Joh
15:6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch,
and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and
they are burned.
Joh
15:7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask
whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Joh
15:8 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples.
Joh
15:9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain
in my love.
Joh
15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even
as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
Joh
15:11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in
you, and that your joy may be made full.
Joh
15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even
as I have loved you.
Joh
15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his
life for his friends.
Joh
15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Joh
15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know
what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything
that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
Joh
15:16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that
you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that
whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to
you.
Joh
15:17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one
another.
Joh
15:18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before
it hated you.
Joh
15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But
because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.
Joh
15:20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not
greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also
persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
Joh
15:21 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake,
because they don't know him who sent me.
Joh
15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had
sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Joh
15:23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
Joh
15:24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did,
they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated
both me and my Father.
Joh
15:25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was
written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
Joh
15:26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you
from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father,
he will testify about me.
Joh
15:27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the
beginning.
