Bible Reading for June 21 and 22
World English Bible
June
21
2
Samuel 4-6
2Sa
4:1 When Ishbosheth,
Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became
feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2Sa
4:2 Ishbosheth,
Saul's son, had
two men who were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah,
and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,
of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to
Benjamin:
2Sa
4:3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as
foreigners there until this day).
2Sa
4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He
was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of
Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she
made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was
Mephibosheth.
2Sa
4:5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and
came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took
his rest at noon.
2Sa
4:6 They came there into the midst of the house, as though they
would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab
and Baanah his brother escaped.
2Sa
4:7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his
bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and
took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
2Sa
4:8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said
to the king, Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your
enemy, who sought your life; and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king
this day of Saul, and of his seed.
2Sa
4:9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed
my soul out of all adversity,
2Sa
4:10 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to
have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag,
which was the reward I gave him for his news.
2Sa
4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in
his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your
hand, and take you away from the earth?
2Sa
4:12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut
off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in
Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the
grave of Abner in Hebron.
2Sa
5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and
spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
2Sa
5:2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led
out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh said to you, You shall be
shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.
2Sa
5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king
David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: and they
anointed David king over Israel.
2Sa
5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned forty years.
2Sa
5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and
in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
2Sa
5:6 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Unless you
take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here;
thinking, David can't come in here.
2Sa
5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the
city of David.
2Sa
5:8 David said on that day, Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him
get up to the watercourse, and strike
the lame and the blind, who are hated of David's soul. Therefore they
say, There are the blind and the lame; he can't come into the house.
2Sa
5:9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David.
David built around from Millo and inward.
2Sa
5:10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies,
was with him.
2Sa
5:11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
2Sa
5:12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over
Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's
sake.
2Sa
5:13 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem,
after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters
born to David.
2Sa
5:14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem:
Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
2Sa
5:15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
2Sa
5:16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
2Sa
5:17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king
over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David
heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
2Sa
5:18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
5:19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against the
Philistines? will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to
David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your
hand.
2Sa
5:20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he
said, Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of
waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
2Sa
5:21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them
away.
2Sa
5:22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
5:23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up:
make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against the
mulberry trees.
2Sa
5:24 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of
the mulberry trees, that then you shall stir yourself up; for then
Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.
2Sa
5:25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the
Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.
2Sa
6:1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
thirty thousand.
2Sa
6:2 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him,
from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is
called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above
the cherubim.
2Sa
6:3 They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the
house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons
of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
2Sa
6:4 They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the
hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
2Sa
6:5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all
manner of instruments made of
fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with
tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
2Sa
6:6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth
his hand to
the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
2Sa
6:7 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck
him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
2Sa
6:8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah;
and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.
2Sa
6:9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall the
ark of Yahweh come to me?
2Sa
6:10 So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into the
city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom
the Gittite.
2Sa
6:11 The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the
Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, and all his
house.
2Sa
6:12 It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of
Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God.
David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom
into the city of David with joy.
2Sa
6:13 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone
six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
2Sa
6:14 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was
girded with a linen ephod.
2Sa
6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of
Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2Sa
6:16 It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David,
that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw
king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in
her heart.
2Sa
6:17 They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in
the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
2Sa
6:18 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of
Armies.
2Sa
6:19 He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude
of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a
portion of flesh,
and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his
house.
2Sa
6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter
of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king
of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the
handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
uncovers himself!
2Sa
6:21 David said to Michal, It was
before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his
house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel:
therefore will I play before Yahweh.
2Sa
6:22 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own
sight: but of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall honor
me.
2Sa
6:23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her
death.
June
22
2
Samuel 7-9
2Sa
7:1 It happened, when the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had
given him rest from all his enemies all around,
2Sa
7:2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a
house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.
2Sa
7:3 Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; for
Yahweh is with you.
2Sa
7:4 It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to
Nathan, saying,
2Sa
7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build
me a house for me to dwell in?
2Sa
7:6 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up
the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved
around in a tent and in a tabernacle.
2Sa
7:7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of
Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I
commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you
not built me a house of cedar?
2Sa
7:8 Now therefore thus you shall tell my servant David, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the
sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel;
2Sa
7:9 and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all
your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like
the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
2Sa
7:10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more;
neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at
the first,
2Sa
7:11 and as
from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and
I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells
you that Yahweh will make you a house.
2Sa
7:12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your
fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of
your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
2Sa
7:13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom forever.
2Sa
7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit
iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the
stripes of the children of men;
2Sa
7:15 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it
from Saul, whom I put away before you.
2Sa
7:16 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before
you: your throne shall be established forever.
2Sa
7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
so did Nathan speak to David.
2Sa
7:18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he
said, Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have
brought me thus far?
2Sa
7:19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you
have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come;
and this too
after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh!
2Sa
7:20 What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord
Yahweh.
2Sa
7:21 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you
worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
2Sa
7:22 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God: for there is none like
you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we
have heard with our ears.
2Sa
7:23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like
Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make
him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for
your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt,
from the
nations and their gods?
2Sa
7:24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people
to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
2Sa
7:25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your
servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you
have spoken.
2Sa
7:26 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Armies is
God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be
established before you.
2Sa
7:27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to
your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your
servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
2Sa
7:28 Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and
you have promised this good thing to your servant:
2Sa
7:29 now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your
servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord
Yahweh, have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of your
servant be blessed forever.
2Sa
8:1 After this it happened that David struck the Philistines, and
subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the
hand of the Philistines.
2Sa
8:2 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to
lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death,
and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to
David, and brought tribute.
2Sa
8:3 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as
he went to recover his dominion at the River.
2Sa
8:4 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and
twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses,
but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
2Sa
8:5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of
Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
2Sa
8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians
became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to
David wherever he went.
2Sa
8:7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
2Sa
8:8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David
took exceeding much brass.
2Sa
8:9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army
of Hadadezer,
2Sa
8:10 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to
bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him:
for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram
brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels
of brass:
2Sa
8:11 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver
and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;
2Sa
8:12 of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the
Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of
Rehob, king of Zobah.
2Sa
8:13 David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians
in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.
2Sa
8:14 He put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons,
and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to
David wherever he went.
2Sa
8:15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and
righteousness to all his people.
2Sa
8:16 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud was recorder;
2Sa
8:17 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar,
were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;
2Sa
8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was
over the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
and David's sons were chief ministers.
2Sa
9:1 David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul,
that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
2Sa
9:2 There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba,
and they called him to David; and the king said to him, Are you Ziba?
He said, Your servant is he.
2Sa
9:3 The king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I
may show the kindness of God to him? Ziba said to the king, Jonathan
has yet a son, who is lame of his feet.
2Sa
9:4 The king said to him, Where is he? Ziba said to the king,
Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.
2Sa
9:5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir
the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
2Sa
9:6 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to
David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. David said,
Mephibosheth. He answered, Behold, your servant!
2Sa
9:7 David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will
surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will
restore you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat bread
at my table continually."
2Sa
9:8 He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you
should look on such a dead dog as I am?"
2Sa
9:9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him,
"All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given to
your master's son.
2Sa
9:10 You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, and your
servants; and you shall bring in the
fruits, that your master's son may have
bread to eat: but Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread
always at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty
servants.
2Sa
9:11 Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the
king commands his servant, so your shall servant do. As for
Mephibosheth, said the king,
he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
2Sa
9:12 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that
lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.
2Sa
9:13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at
the king's table. He was lame in both his feet.
Jun.
21, 22
John 19
Joh
19:1 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
Joh
19:2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his
head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
Joh
19:3 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they
kept slapping him.
Joh
19:4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I
bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a
charge against him."
Joh
19:5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
Joh
19:6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they
shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them,
"Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a
charge against him."
Joh
19:7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he
ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
Joh
19:8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
Joh
19:9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where
are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
Joh
19:10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me?
Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to
crucify you?"
Joh
19:11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against
me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who
delivered me to you has greater sin."
Joh
19:12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried
out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's
friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
Joh
19:13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out,
and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The
Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
Joh
19:14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the
sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
Joh
19:15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify
him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?"
The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
Joh
19:16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took
Jesus and led him away.
Joh
19:17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The
Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
Joh
19:18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either
side one, and Jesus in the middle.
Joh
19:19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was
written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Joh
19:20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place
where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in
Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
Joh
19:21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't
write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'
"
Joh
19:22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Joh
19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the
coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Joh
19:24 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but
cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture
might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among
them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did
these things.
Joh
19:25 But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and
his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Joh
19:26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he
loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your
son!"
Joh
19:27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!"
From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
Joh
19:28 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished,
that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
Joh
19:29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a
sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
Joh
19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It
is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
Joh
19:31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so
that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that
Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away.
Joh
19:32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other who was crucified with him;
Joh
19:33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead,
they didn't break his legs.
Joh
19:34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and
immediately blood and water came out.
Joh
19:35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He
knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
Joh
19:36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."
Joh
19:37 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom
they pierced."
Joh
19:38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of
Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he
might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came
therefore and took away his body.
Joh
19:39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
Joh
19:40 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with
the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
Joh
19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In
the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
Joh
19:42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was
near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
In
2011, the renowned atheist, theoretical physicist, and cosmologist of
Cambridge University, the late Stephen Hawking, was given a platform to
spread his atheistic perspective (“Curiosity…,” 2011). Discovery Channel
aired a show titled, “Curiosity: Did God Create the Universe?” Hawking
adamantly claimed, “No.” He claimed that there is no need for God in the
picture, since he believes everything in the Universe can be explained
without Him (see Miller, 2011a for an in depth response to Hawking’s
claims in the show).
