Bible Reading
November 21
The World English Bible
Nov.
21
Jeremiah
34-37
Jer
34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the
peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities
of it, saying:
Jer
34:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah
king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it
with fire:
Jer
34:3 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be
taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes
of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth,
and you shall go to Babylon.
Jer
34:4 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus
says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;
Jer
34:5 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers,
the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning
for you; and they shall lament you, saying,
Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.
Jer
34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem,
Jer
34:7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem,
and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish
and against Azekah; for these alone
remained of the cities of Judah as
fortified cities.
Jer
34:8 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at
Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
Jer
34:9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his
female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none
should make bondservants of them, to
wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jer
34:10 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered
into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and
everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make
bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
Jer
34:11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the
handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them
into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Jer
34:12 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying,
Jer
34:13 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
Jer
34:14 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his
brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you
six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers
didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
Jer
34:15 You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my
eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had
made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Jer
34:16 but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at
their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to
be to you for servants and for handmaids.
Jer
34:17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to
proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his
neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the
sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to
be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jer
34:18 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who
have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before
me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts;
Jer
34:19 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed
between the parts of the calf;
Jer
34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into
the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be
for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.
Jer
34:21 Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their
life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone
away from you.
Jer
34:22 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return
to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn
it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.
Jer
35:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
Jer
35:2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring
them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give
them wine to drink.
Jer
35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechabites;
Jer
35:4 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber
of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was
by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of
Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
Jer
35:5 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full
of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine.
Jer
35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of
Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine,
neither you, nor your sons, forever:
Jer
35:7 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents;
that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.
Jer
35:8 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our
father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days,
we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
Jer
35:9 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
Jer
35:10 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Jer
35:11 But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for
fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the
Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
Jer
35:12 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
35:13 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not
receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh.
Jer
35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his
sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink
none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to
you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.
Jer
35:15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising
up early and sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his
evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to
serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you
and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened
to me.
Jer
35:16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this
people has not listened to me;
Jer
35:17 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of
Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I
have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to
them, but they have not answered.
Jer
35:18 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment
of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according
to all that he commanded you;
Jer
35:19 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me
forever.
Jer
36:1 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
36:2 Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all
the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah,
even to this day.
Jer
36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which
I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil
way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Jer
36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote
from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which he had
spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
Jer
36:5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go
into the house of Yahweh:
Jer
36:6 therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have
written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people
in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in
the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
Jer
36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh,
and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger
and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people.
Jer
36:8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the
prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Yahweh in
Yahweh's house.
Jer
36:9 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in
Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to
Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
Jer
36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the
scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's
house, in the ears of all the people.
Jer
36:11 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh,
Jer
36:12 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber:
and behold, all the princes were sitting there, to
wit, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah
the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the
son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the
princes.
Jer
36:13 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Jer
36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in
your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the
people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his
hand, and came to them.
Jer
36:15 They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So
Baruch read it in their ears.
Jer
36:16 Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they
turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely
tell the king of all these words.
Jer
36:17 They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all
these words at his mouth?
Jer
36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me
with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
Jer
36:19 Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and
Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.
Jer
36:20 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up
the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all
the words in the ears of the king.
Jer
36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out
of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of
the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the
king.
Jer
36:22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth
month: and there was a fire in
the brazier burning before him.
Jer
36:23 It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that
the king
cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the
brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in
the brazier.
Jer
36:24 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the
king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
Jer
36:25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he
would not hear them.
Jer
36:26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the
son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
Jer
36:27 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king
had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth
of Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
36:28 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former
words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of
Judah has burned.
Jer
36:29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says
Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written
therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy
this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?
Jer
36:30 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah:
He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body
shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the
frost.
Jer
36:31 I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them, but they didn't listen.
Jer
36:32 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had
burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like
words.
Jer
37:1 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king
in the land of Judah.
Jer
37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land,
did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by the prophet
Jeremiah.
Jer
37:3 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.
Jer
37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they
had not put him into prison.
Jer
37:5 Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the
Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke
up from Jerusalem.
Jer
37:6 Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
37:7 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, You shall tell the king of
Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army,
which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own
land.
Jer
37:8 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city;
and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
Jer
37:9 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
Jer
37:10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who
fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes
would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with
fire.
Jer
37:11 It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up
from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
Jer
37:12 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the
people.
Jer
37:13 When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard
was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are
falling away to the Chaldeans.
Jer
37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the
Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jer
37:15 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put
him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made
that the prison.
Jer
37:16 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the
cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jer
37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king
asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from
Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered
into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Jer
37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned
against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that
you have put me in prison?
Jer
37:19 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The
king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
Jer
37:20 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication
be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house
of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Jer
37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah
into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread
out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent.
Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Nov.
21
Hebrews
7
Heb
7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed
him,
Heb
7:2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first,
by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of
Salem, which is king of peace;
Heb
7:3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having
neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of
God), remains a priest continually.
Heb
7:4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the
patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
Heb
7:5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office
have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law,
that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of
Abraham,
Heb
7:6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted
tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
Heb
7:7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
Heb
7:8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives
tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
Heb
7:9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes,
has paid tithes,
Heb
7:10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met
him.
Heb
7:11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood
(for under it the people have received the law), what further need
was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek,
and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Heb
7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a
change made also in the law.
Heb
7:13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe,
from which no one has officiated at the altar.
Heb
7:14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about
which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
Heb
7:15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of
Melchizedek there arises another priest,
Heb
7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment,
but after the power of an endless life:
Heb
7:17 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according
to the order of Melchizedek."
Heb
7:18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of
its weakness and uselessness
Heb
7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a
better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Heb
7:20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an
oath
Heb
7:21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but
he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and
will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, according to the
order of Melchizedek.' "
Heb
7:22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better
covenant.
Heb
7:23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered
from continuing by death.
Heb
7:24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood
unchangeable.
Heb
7:25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who
draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make
intercession for them.
Heb
7:26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless,
undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Heb
7:27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up
sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of
the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
Heb
7:28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but
the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever
who has been perfected.
