Bible Reading
June 10
The World English Bible
June
9
1
Samuel 11, 12
1Sa
11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh
Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant
with us, and we will serve you.
1Sa
11:2 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make
it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it
for a reproach on all Israel.
1Sa
11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite,
that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then,
if there be none to save us, we will come out to you.
1Sa
11:4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these
words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their
voice, and wept.
1Sa
11:5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul
said, What ails the people that they weep? They told him the words of
the men of Jabesh.
1Sa
11:6 The Spirit of God came mightily on Saul when he heard those
words, and his anger was kindled greatly.
1Sa
11:7 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them
throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers,
saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so
shall it be done to his oxen. The dread of Yahweh fell on the people,
and they came out as one man.
1Sa
11:8 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were
three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
1Sa
11:9 They said to the messengers who came, Thus you shall tell the
men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall
have deliverance. The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and
they were glad.
1Sa
11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to
you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.
1Sa
11:11 It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three
companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning
watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it
happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of
them were left together.
1Sa
11:12 The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul
reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
1Sa
11:13 Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for
today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.
1Sa
11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal,
and renew the kingdom there.
1Sa
11:15 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king
before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace
offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel
rejoiced greatly.
1Sa
12:1 Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your
voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
1Sa
12:2 Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and
gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked
before you from my youth to this day.
1Sa
12:3 Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before his
anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or
whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I
taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
1Sa
12:4 They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither
have you taken anything of any man's hand.
1Sa
12:5 He said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his
anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my
hand. They said, He is witness.
1Sa
12:6 Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and
Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1Sa
12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before
Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to
you and to your fathers.
1Sa
12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to
Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your
fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.
1Sa
12:9 But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the
hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of
the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they
fought against them.
1Sa
12:10 They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we
have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth:
but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve
you.
1Sa
12:11 Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel,
and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and
you lived in safety.
1Sa
12:12 When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon
came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us;
when Yahweh your God was your king.
1Sa
12:13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you
have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
1Sa
12:14 If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his
voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, and both you
and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your
God, well:
1Sa
12:15 but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel
against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be
against you, as it was against your fathers.
1Sa
12:16 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which
Yahweh will do before your eyes.
1Sa
12:17 Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he
may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your
wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in
asking for a king.
1Sa
12:18 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain
that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
1Sa
12:19 All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to
Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins
this evil,
to ask us a king.
1Sa
12:20 Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have
indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following
Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart:
1Sa
12:21 and don't turn aside; for then
would you go after vain things which
can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
1Sa
12:22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's
sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
1Sa
12:23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin
against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in
the good and the right way.
1Sa
12:24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart;
for consider how great things he has done for you.
1Sa
12:25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed,
both you and your king."
June
10
1
Samuel 13, 14
1Sa
13:1 Saul was forty
years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years
over Israel,
1Sa
13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two
thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and
one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest
of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1Sa
13:3 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in
Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
1Sa
13:4 All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of the
Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the
Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
1Sa
13:5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and
people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they
came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
1Sa
13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the
people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in
caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
1Sa
13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of
Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the
people followed him trembling.
1Sa
13:8 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had
appointed: but Samuel didn't come to
Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1Sa
13:9 Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace
offerings. He offered the burnt offering.
1Sa
13:10 It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering
the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet
him, that he might greet him.
1Sa
13:11 Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that
the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within
the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves
together at Michmash;
1Sa
13:12 therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to
Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself
therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
1Sa
13:13 Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not
kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for
now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
1Sa
13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him
a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince
over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh
commanded you.
1Sa
13:15 Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gibeah of
Benjamin. Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about
six hundred men.
1Sa
13:16 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present
with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in
Michmash.
1Sa
13:17 The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three
companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the
land of Shual;
1Sa
13:18 and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another
company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of
Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1Sa
13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords
or spears:
1Sa
13:20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;
1Sa
13:21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares,
and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
1Sa
13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who
were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son
was there found.
1Sa
13:23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of
Michmash.
1Sa
14:1 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the
young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his
father.
1Sa
14:2 Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the
pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him
were about six hundred men;
1Sa
14:3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an
ephod. The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone.
1Sa
14:4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the
Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a
rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and
the name of the other Seneh.
1Sa
14:5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the
other on the south in front of Geba.
1Sa
14:6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and
let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that
Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save
by many or by few.
1Sa
14:7 His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart:
turn and, behold, I am with you according to your heart.
1Sa
14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and
we will disclose ourselves to them.
1Sa
14:9 If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will
stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
1Sa
14:10 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for
Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign
to us.
1Sa
14:11 Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the
Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth
out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
1Sa
14:12 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor
bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has
delivered them into the hand of Israel.
1Sa
14:13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his
armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor
bearer killed them after him.
1Sa
14:14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer
made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length
in an acre of land.
1Sa
14:15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all
the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and
the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
1Sa
14:16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold,
the multitude melted away, and they went here
and there.
1Sa
14:17 Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now,
and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan
and his armor bearer were not there.
1Sa
14:18 Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of
God was there
at that time with the children of Israel.
1Sa
14:19 It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult
that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and
Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
1Sa
14:20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered
together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was
against his fellow, and there was
a very great confusion.
1Sa
14:21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and
who went up with them into the camp, from
the country all around, even they also
turned to
be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
1Sa
14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the
hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled,
even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
1Sa
14:23 So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by
Beth Aven.
1Sa
14:24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until
it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people
tasted food.
1Sa
14:25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on
the ground.
1Sa
14:26 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey
dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared
the oath.
1Sa
14:27 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father commanded the people
with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in
his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his
mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
1Sa
14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father
directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man
who eats food this day. The people were faint.
1Sa
14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please
look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of
this honey.
1Sa
14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of
the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has there been
no great slaughter among the Philistines.
1Sa
14:31 They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon. The people were very faint;
1Sa
14:32 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle,
and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them
with the blood.
1Sa
14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against
Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt
treacherously: roll a great stone to me this day.
1Sa
14:34 Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell
them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and
kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with
the blood. All the people brought every man his ox with him that
night, and killed them there.
1Sa
14:35 Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar
that he built to Yahweh.
1Sa
14:36 Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and
take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a
man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the
priest, Let us draw near here to God.
1Sa
14:37 Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he
didn't answer him that day.
1Sa
14:38 Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and
know and see in which this sin has been this day.
1Sa
14:39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in
Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among
all the people who answered him.
1Sa
14:40 Then said he to all Israel, You be on one side, and I and
Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul,
Do what seems good to you.
1Sa
14:41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the
right. Jonathan and Saul were taken by
lot; but the people escaped.
1Sa
14:42 Saul said, Cast lots
between me and Jonathan my son. Jonathan was taken.
1Sa
14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done.
Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey
with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.
1Sa
14:44 Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die,
Jonathan.
1Sa
14:45 The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked
this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there
shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked
with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't
die.
1Sa
14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the
Philistines went to their own place.
1Sa
14:47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought
against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the
children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah,
and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he put
them to the
worse.
1Sa
14:48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
1Sa
14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua;
and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the
firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1Sa
14:50 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of
Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of
Ner, Saul's uncle.
1Sa
14:51 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was
the son of Abiel.
1Sa
14:52 There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of
Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took
him to him.
Jun.
9, 10
John
13
Joh
13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his
time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Joh
13:2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
Joh
13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his
hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
Joh
13:4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a
towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
Joh
13:5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the
disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped
around him.
Joh
13:6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you
wash my feet?"
Joh
13:7 Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now,
but you will understand later."
Joh
13:8 Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!"
Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with
me."
Joh
13:9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also
my hands and my head!"
Joh
13:10 Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to
have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not
all of you."
Joh
13:11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You
are not all clean."
Joh
13:12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back
on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I
have done to you?
Joh
13:13 You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for
so I am.
Joh
13:14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another's feet.
Joh
13:15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I
have done to you.
Joh
13:16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his
lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
Joh
13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Joh
13:18 I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have
chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread
with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
Joh
13:19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it
happens, you may believe that I am he.
Joh
13:20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send,
receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
Joh
13:21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and
testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will
betray me."
Joh
13:22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he
spoke.
Joh
13:23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table,
leaning against Jesus' breast.
Joh
13:24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell
us who it is of whom he speaks."
Joh
13:25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him,
"Lord, who is it?"
Joh
13:26 Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give
this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had
dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon
Iscariot.
Joh
13:27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then
Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
Joh
13:28 Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
Joh
13:29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus
said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or
that he should give something to the poor.
Joh
13:30 Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out
immediately. It was night.
Joh
13:31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has
been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
Joh
13:32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in
himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
Joh
13:33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You
will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't
come,' so now I tell you.
Joh
13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
Joh
13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you
have love for one another."
Joh
13:36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?"
Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you
will follow afterwards."
Joh
13:37 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I
will lay down my life for you."
Joh
13:38 Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me?
Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have
denied me three times.
