Bible Reading
June 26 - 28
The World English Bible
June
26
2
Samuel 19-21
2Sa
19:1 It was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for
Absalom.
2Sa
19:2 The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the
people; for the people heard say that day, The king grieves for his
son.
2Sa
19:3 The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as
people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
2Sa
19:4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud
voice, my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!
2Sa
19:5 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed
this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your
life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives
of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
2Sa
19:6 in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love
you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are
nothing to you: for this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived,
and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well.
2Sa
19:7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your
servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will
stay with you this night: and that would be worse to you than all the
evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.
2Sa
19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the
people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the
people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his
tent.
2Sa
19:9 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of
Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies,
and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is
fled out of the land from Absalom.
2Sa
19:10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now
therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?
2Sa
19:11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying,
Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring
the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come
to the king, to bring him
to his house.
2Sa
19:12 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then
are you the last to bring back the king?
2Sa
19:13 Say to Amasa, Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to
me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me
continually in the room of Joab.
2Sa
19:14 He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the
heart of one man; so that they sent to
the king, saying,
Return, you and all your servants.
2Sa
19:15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to
Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
2Sa
19:16 Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim,
hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
2Sa
19:17 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the
servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence
of the king.
2Sa
19:18 A ferry boat went to bring over the king's household, and to
do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the
king, when he was come over the Jordan.
2Sa
19:19 He said to the king, Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me,
neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the
day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should
take it to his heart.
2Sa
19:20 For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore,
behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to
go down to meet my lord the king.
2Sa
19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be
put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?
2Sa
19:22 David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah,
that you should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be
put to death this day in Israel? for don't I know that I am this day
king over Israel?
2Sa
19:23 The king said to Shimei, You shall not die. The king swore to
him.
2Sa
19:24 Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and
he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed
his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came
home in peace.
2Sa
19:25 It happened, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king,
that the king said to him, Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?
2Sa
19:26 He answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your
servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and
go with the king; because your servant is lame.
2Sa
19:27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord
the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your
eyes.
2Sa
19:28 For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the
king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table.
What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the
king?
2Sa
19:29 The king said to him, Why do you speak any more of your
matters? I say, You and Ziba divide the land.
2Sa
19:30 Mephibosheth said to the king, yes, let him take all, because
my lord the king is come in peace to his own house.
2Sa
19:31 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went
over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
2Sa
19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and
he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim;
for he was a very great man.
2Sa
19:33 The king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will
sustain you with me in Jerusalem.
2Sa
19:34 Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years
of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
2Sa
19:35 I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and
bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear
any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should
your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
2Sa
19:36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king:
and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
2Sa
19:37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my
own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your
servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him
what shall seem good to you.
2Sa
19:38 The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will
do to him that which shall seem good to you: and whatever you shall
require of me, that will I do for you.
2Sa
19:39 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over:
and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to
his own place.
2Sa
19:40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with
him: and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half
the people of Israel.
2Sa
19:41 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to
the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and
brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's
men with him?
2Sa
19:42 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the
king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this
matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us
any gift?
2Sa
19:43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have
ten parts in the king, and we have also more right
in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice
should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the
men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2Sa
20:1 There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba,
the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We
have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of
Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.
2Sa
20:2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and
followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with
their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
2Sa
20:3 David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten
women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put
them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in
to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in
widowhood.
2Sa
20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together
within three days, and be here present.
2Sa
20:5 So Amasa went to call the men of
Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had
appointed him.
2Sa
20:6 David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us
more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue
after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our
sight.
2Sa
20:7 There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and
the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of
Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2Sa
20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa
came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he
had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist
in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.
2Sa
20:9 Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? Joab took
Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2Sa
20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand:
so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to
the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and
Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2Sa
20:11 There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He who
favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab.
2Sa
20:12 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway.
When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa
out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when
he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
2Sa
20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on
after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2Sa
20:14 He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth
Maacah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and
went also after him.
2Sa
20:15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they
cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart;
and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it
down.
2Sa
20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear!
Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.' "
2Sa
20:17 He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He
answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your
handmaid. He answered, I do hear.
2Sa
20:18 Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,
saying, They shall surely ask counsel
at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
2Sa
20:19 I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you
seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow
up the inheritance of Yahweh?
2Sa
20:20 Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should
swallow up or destroy.
2Sa
20:21 The matter is not so: but a man of the hill country of
Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand
against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will
depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall
be thrown to you over the wall.
2Sa
20:22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut
off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He
blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to
his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
2Sa
20:23 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son
of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
2Sa
20:24 and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
2Sa
20:25 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
2Sa
20:26 and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.
2Sa
21:1 There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for
Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the
Gibeonites.
2Sa
21:2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of
the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul
sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and
Judah);
2Sa
21:3 and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And
with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance
of Yahweh?
2Sa
21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold
between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any
man to death in Israel. He said, What you shall say, that will I do
for you.
2Sa
21:5 They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised
against us, that
we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of
Israel,
2Sa
21:6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang
them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king
said, I will give them.
2Sa
21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son
of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between
David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2Sa
21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of
Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite:
2Sa
21:9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they
hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell all
seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the
first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
2Sa
21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for
her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured
on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to
rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
2Sa
21:11 It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done.
2Sa
21:12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them
from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them,
in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
2Sa
21:13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were
hanged.
2Sa
21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the
country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they
performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated
for the land.
2Sa
21:15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went
down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines.
David grew faint;
2Sa
21:16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight
of whose spear was three hundred shekels
of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword,
thought to have slain David.
2Sa
21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him,
saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't
quench the lamp of Israel.
2Sa
21:18 It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the
Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was
of the sons of the giant.
2Sa
21:19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan
the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's
brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
2Sa
21:20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great
stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six
toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
2Sa
21:21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's
brother, killed him.
2Sa
21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by
the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
June
27
2
Samuel 22-24
2Sa
22:1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that
Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of
the hand of Saul:
2Sa
22:2 and he said, Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,
even mine;
2Sa
22:3 God, my rock, in him I will take refuge; my shield, and the
horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you
save me from violence.
2Sa
22:4 I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I
be saved from my enemies.
2Sa
22:5 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
2Sa
22:6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught
me.
2Sa
22:7 In my distress I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He
heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came
into his ears.
2Sa
22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven
quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
2Sa
22:9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth
devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
2Sa
22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was
under his feet.
2Sa
22:11 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings
of the wind.
2Sa
22:12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of
waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
2Sa
22:13 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.
2Sa
22:14 Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.
2Sa
22:15 He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
confused them.
2Sa
22:16 Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the
world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the
breath of his nostrils.
2Sa
22:17 He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many
waters.
2Sa
22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.
2Sa
22:19 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my
support.
2Sa
22:20 He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
2Sa
22:21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded
me according to the cleanness of my hands.
2Sa
22:22 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
2Sa
22:23 For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I
did not depart from them.
2Sa
22:24 I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
2Sa
22:25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my
righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
2Sa
22:26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the
perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
2Sa
22:27 With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked
you will show yourself shrewd.
2Sa
22:28 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the
haughty, that you may bring them down.
2Sa
22:29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
2Sa
22:30 For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a
wall.
2Sa
22:31 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
2Sa
22:32 For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our
God?
2Sa
22:33 God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.
2Sa
22:34 He makes his feet like hinds' feet,
and sets me on my high places.
2Sa
22:35 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of
brass.
2Sa
22:36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your
gentleness has made me great.
2Sa
22:37 You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.
2Sa
22:38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn
again until they were consumed.
2Sa
22:39 I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they
can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
2Sa
22:40 For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have
subdued under me those who rose up against me.
2Sa
22:41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I
might cut off those who hate me.
2Sa
22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but
he didn't answer them.
2Sa
22:43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed
them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
2Sa
22:44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people.
You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have
not known will serve me.
2Sa
22:45 The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they
hear of me, they will obey me.
2Sa
22:46 The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of
their close places.
2Sa
22:47 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of
my salvation,
2Sa
22:48 even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down
peoples under me,
2Sa
22:49 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above
those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
2Sa
22:50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the
nations. Will sing praises to your name.
2Sa
22:51 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving
kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
2Sa
23:1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of
Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
2Sa
23:2 The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
2Sa
23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, one who
rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
2Sa
23:4 He shall be
as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without
clouds, When
the tender grass springs
out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
2Sa
23:5 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made
with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for
it is all my salvation, and all my
desire, although he doesn't make it grow.
2Sa
23:6 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away,
because they can't be taken with the hand,
2Sa
23:7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the
staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their
place.
2Sa
23:8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb
Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino
the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.
2Sa
23:9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite,
one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the
Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men
of Israel were gone away.
2Sa
23:10 He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary,
and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory
that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.
2Sa
23:11 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The
Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where there was a
plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the
Philistines.
2Sa
23:12 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and
killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.
2Sa
23:13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in
the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the
Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
23:14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
2Sa
23:15 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to
drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
2Sa
23:16 The three mighty men broke through the army of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by
the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not
drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
2Sa
23:17 He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this:
shall I drink
the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore
he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
2Sa
23:18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of
the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed
them, and had a name among the three.
2Sa
23:19 Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made
their captain: however he didn't attain to the first
three.
2Sa
23:20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of
Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons
of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and
killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
2Sa
23:21 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked
the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own
spear.
2Sa
23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name
among the three mighty men.
2Sa
23:23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to
the first
three. David set him over his guard.
2Sa
23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the
son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
2Sa
23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
2Sa
23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
2Sa
23:27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
2Sa
23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
2Sa
23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of
Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
2Sa
23:30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
2Sa
23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
2Sa
23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
2Sa
23:33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
2Sa
23:34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam
the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
2Sa
23:35 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
2Sa
23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
2Sa
23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to
Joab the son of Zeruiah,
2Sa
23:38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
2Sa
23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
2Sa
24:1 Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he
moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2Sa
24:2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with
him, Go now back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan
even to Beersheba, and number you the people, that I may know the sum
of the people.
2Sa
24:3 Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people,
however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my
lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this
thing?
2Sa
24:4 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and
against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army
went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of
Israel.
2Sa
24:5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the
right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad,
and to Jazer:
2Sa
24:6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and
they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
2Sa
24:7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of
the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of
Judah, at Beersheba.
2Sa
24:8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they
came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
2Sa
24:9 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the
king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who
drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
2Sa
24:10 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the
people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I
have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
2Sa
24:11 When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to
the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
2Sa
24:12 Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three
things: choose one of them, that I may do it to you.
2Sa
24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall
seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee
three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there
be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what
answer I shall return to him who sent me.
2Sa
24:14 David said to Gad, I am in distress. Let us fall now into the
hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into
the hand of man.
2Sa
24:15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to
the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to
Beersheba seventy thousand men.
2Sa
24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to
destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel
who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel
of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2Sa
24:17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the
people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely;
but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against
me, and against my father's house.
2Sa
24:18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an
altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2Sa
24:19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh
commanded.
2Sa
24:20 Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming
on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the
king with his face to the ground.
2Sa
24:21 Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant?
David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to
Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
2Sa
24:22 Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up
what seems good to him: behold, the cattle for the burnt offering,
and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:
2Sa
24:23 all this, king, does Araunah give to the king. Araunah said to
the king, Yahweh your God accept you.
2Sa
24:24 The king said to Araunah, No; but I will most certainly buy it
of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my
God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and
the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2Sa
24:25 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land,
and the plague was stayed from Israel.
June
28
1
Kings 1-3
1Ki
1:1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered
him with clothes, but he got no heat.
1Ki
1:2 Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my
lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and
cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may
keep warm.
1Ki
1:3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the
borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her
to the king.
1Ki
1:4 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king,
and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately.
1Ki
1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will
be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to
run before him.
1Ki
1:6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why
have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born
after Absalom.
1Ki
1:7 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the
priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
1Ki
1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who
belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
1Ki
1:9 Adonijah killed sheep and cattle and fatlings by the stone of
Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers,
the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants:
1Ki
1:10 but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and
Solomon his brother, he didn't call.
1Ki
1:11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying,
Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David
our lord doesn't know it?
1Ki
1:12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you
may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
1Ki
1:13 Go in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king,
swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall
reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah
reign?
1Ki
1:14 Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will
come in after you, and confirm your words.
1Ki
1:15 Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king
was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
1Ki
1:16 Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said,
What would you like?
1Ki
1:17 She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your
handmaid, saying,
Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on
my throne.
1Ki
1:18 Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don't
know it:
1Ki
1:19 and he has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance,
and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and
Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn't called Solomon your
servant.
1Ki
1:20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that
you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king
after him.
1Ki
1:21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep
with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted
offenders.
1Ki
1:22 Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet
came in.
1Ki
1:23 They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. When he
was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with
his face to the ground.
1Ki
1:24 Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign
after me, and he shall sit on my throne?
1Ki
1:25 For he is gone down this day, and has slain cattle and fatlings
and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the
captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and behold, they are
eating and drinking before him, and say, Long
live king Adonijah.
1Ki
1:26 But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the
priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
1Ki
1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown
to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king
after him?
1Ki
1:28 Then king David answered, Call to me Bathsheba. She came into
the king's presence, and stood before the king.
1Ki
1:29 The king swore, and said, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my
soul out of all adversity,
1Ki
1:30 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel,
saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall
sit on my throne in my place; most certainly so will I do this day.
1Ki
1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did
obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.
1Ki
1:32 King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They came before the king.
1Ki
1:33 The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord,
and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down
to Gihon:
1Ki
1:34 and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
there king over Israel; and blow the trumpet, and say, Long
live king Solomon.
1Ki
1:35 Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on
my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him
to be prince over Israel and over Judah.
1Ki
1:36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen:
Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so too.
1Ki
1:37 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with
Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king
David.
1Ki
1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down,
and caused Solomon to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to
Gihon.
1Ki
1:39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and
anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said,
Long live
king Solomon.
1Ki
1:40 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with
pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the
sound of them.
1Ki
1:41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they
had made an end of eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet,
he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
1Ki
1:42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the
priest came: and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a worthy man,
and bring good news.
1Ki
1:43 Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most certainly our lord king David
has made Solomon king:
1Ki
1:44 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the
Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule;
1Ki
1:45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him
king in Gihon; and they are come up from there rejoicing, so that the
city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
1Ki
1:46 Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
1Ki
1:47 Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David,
saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and
make his throne greater than your throne: and the king bowed himself
on the bed.
1Ki
1:48 Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing
it.
1Ki
1:49 All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went
every man his way.
1Ki
1:50 Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and
caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1Ki
1:51 It was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king
Solomon; for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar,
saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his
servant with the sword.
1Ki
1:52 Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there
shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found
in him, he shall die.
1Ki
1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar.
He came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him,
Go to your house.
1Ki
2:1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he
commanded Solomon his son, saying,
1Ki
2:2 I am going the way of all the earth: you be strong therefore,
and show yourself a man;
1Ki
2:3 and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his
ways, to keep his statutes, and
his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according
to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in
all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
1Ki
2:4 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me,
saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in
truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not
fail you, said he, a man on the throne of Israel.
1Ki
2:5 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me,
even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to
Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed,
and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his
sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his
feet.
1Ki
2:6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray
head go down to Sheol in peace.
1Ki
2:7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and
let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me
when I fled from Absalom your brother.
1Ki
2:8 Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite,
of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I
went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I
swore to him by Yahweh, saying, I will not put you to death with the
sword.
1Ki
2:9 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man;
and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring
his gray head down to Sheol with blood.
1Ki
2:10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David.
1Ki
2:11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; seven
years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years reigned he in
Jerusalem.
1Ki
2:12 Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom
was established greatly.
1Ki
2:13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother
of Solomon. She said, Do you come peaceably? He said, Peaceably.
1Ki
2:14 He said moreover, I have something to tell you. She said, Say
on.
1Ki
2:15 He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all
Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: however the
kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his
from Yahweh.
1Ki
2:16 Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said to him,
Say on.
1Ki
2:17 He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will
not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."
1Ki
2:18 Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.
1Ki
2:19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for
Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and
sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's
mother; and she sat on his right hand.
1Ki
2:20 Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me.
The king said to her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.
1Ki
2:21 She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your
brother as wife.
1Ki
2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the
Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my
elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for
Joab the son of Zeruiah.
1Ki
2:23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and
more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
1Ki
2:24 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set
me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as
he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
1Ki
2:25 King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell
on him, so that he died.
1Ki
2:26 To Abiathar the priest said the king, Go to Anathoth, to your
own fields; for you are worthy of death: but I will not at this time
put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord Yahweh before
David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my
father was afflicted.
1Ki
2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh,
that he might fulfill the word of Yahweh, which he spoke concerning
the house of Eli in Shiloh.
1Ki
2:28 The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah,
though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1Ki
2:29 It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh,
and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.
1Ki
2:30 Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, Thus says
the king, Come forth. He said, No; but I will die here. Benaiah
brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he
answered me.
1Ki
2:31 The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and
bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without
cause, from me and from my father's house.
1Ki
2:32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell
on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with
the sword, and my father David didn't know it, to
wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of
the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army
of Judah.
1Ki
2:33 So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the
head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his
house, and to his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Yahweh.
1Ki
2:34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and
killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
1Ki
2:35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the
army; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
1Ki
2:36 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build
yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don't go forth
from there any where.
1Ki
2:37 For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know
for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be on your
own head.
1Ki
2:38 Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the
king has said, so will your servant do. Shimei lived in Jerusalem
many days.
1Ki
2:39 It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants
of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told
Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath.
1Ki
2:40 Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to
Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his
servants from Gath.
1Ki
2:41 It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to
Gath, and was come again.
1Ki
2:42 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I
adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain,
that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall
surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I have heard is good.
1Ki
2:43 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the
commandment that I have instructed you with?
1Ki
2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness
which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father:
therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on your own head.
1Ki
2:45 But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David
shall be established before Yahweh forever.
1Ki
2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went
out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in
the hand of Solomon.
1Ki
3:1 Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he
had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh,
and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
1Ki
3:2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was
no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.
1Ki
3:3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his
father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
1Ki
3:4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the
great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on
that altar.
1Ki
3:5 In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and
God said, Ask what I shall give you.
1Ki
3:6 Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father
great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth,
and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you
have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him
a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
1Ki
3:7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of
David my father: and I am but a little child; I don't know how to go
out or come in.
1Ki
3:8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have
chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for
multitude.
1Ki
3:9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your
people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to
judge this your great people?
1Ki
3:10 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1Ki
3:11 God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have
not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for
yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for
yourself understanding to discern justice;
1Ki
3:12 behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have
given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been
none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
1Ki
3:13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both
riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like
you, all your days.
1Ki
3:14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your
days.
1Ki
3:15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream: and he came to
Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and
offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a
feast to all his servants.
1Ki
3:16 Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king,
and stood before him.
1Ki
3:17 The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one
house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
1Ki
3:18 It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this
woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger
with us in the house, save we two in the house.
1Ki
3:19 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
1Ki
3:20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while
your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead
child in my bosom.
1Ki
3:21 When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it
was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was
not my son, whom I bore.
1Ki
3:22 The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the
dead is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the
living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
1Ki
3:23 Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and
your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the
dead, and my son is the living.
1Ki
3:24 The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the
king.
1Ki
3:25 The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to
the one, and half to the other.
1Ki
3:26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king,
for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give
her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It
shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.
1Ki
3:27 Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no
way kill it: she is its mother.
1Ki
3:28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and
they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him,
to do justice.
Jun.
26, 27
Acts
1
Act
1:1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus
began both to do and to teach,
Act
1:2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given
commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had
chosen.
Act
1:3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many
proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking
about God's Kingdom.
Act
1:4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't
depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which
you heard from me.
Act
1:5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in
the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Act
1:6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord,
are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
Act
1:7 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons
which the Father has set within his own authority.
Act
1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
Act
1:9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was
taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Act
1:10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went,
behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
Act
1:11 who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand
looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into
the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the
sky."
Act
1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called
Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.
Act
1:13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where
they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip,
Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the
Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Act
1:14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and
supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
with his brothers.
Act
1:15 In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples
(and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
Act
1:16 "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be
fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David
concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
Act
1:17 For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this
ministry.
Act
1:18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his
wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his
intestines gushed out.
Act
1:19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in
their language that field was called 'Akeldama,' that is, 'The field
of blood.'
Act
1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be
made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;' and, 'Let another take his
office.'
Act
1:21 "Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time
that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Act
1:22 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was
received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of
his resurrection."
Act
1:23 They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed
Justus, and Matthias.
Act
1:24 They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of
all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
Act
1:25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas
fell away, that he might go to his own place."
Act
1:26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he
was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Jun.
28, 29
Acts
2
Act
2:1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one
accord in one place.
Act
2:2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a
mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act
2:3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one
sat on each of them.
Act
2:4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak
with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
Act
2:5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from
every nation under the sky.
Act
2:6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were
bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
Act
2:7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another,
"Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?
Act
2:8 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
Act
2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea,
Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
Act
2:10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene,
visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Act
2:11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages
the mighty works of God!"
Act
2:12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to
another, "What does this mean?"
Act
2:13 Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."
Act
2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice,
and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell
at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
Act
2:15 For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the
third hour of the day.
Act
2:16 But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
Act
2:17 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my
Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your
young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
Act
2:18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I
will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
Act
2:19 I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth
beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
Act
2:20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
Act
2:21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will
be saved.'
Act
2:22 "Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which
God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,
Act
2:23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and
foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men,
crucified and killed;
Act
2:24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death,
because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
Act
2:25 For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my
face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Act
2:26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover
my flesh also will dwell in hope;
Act
2:27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you
allow your Holy One to see decay.
Act
2:28 You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of
gladness with your presence.'
Act
2:29 "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David,
that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this
day.
Act
2:30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with
an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh,
he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
Act
2:31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ,
that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
Act
2:32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
Act
2:33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having
received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has
poured out this, which you now see and hear.
Act
2:34 For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself,
'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,
Act
2:35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." '
Act
2:36 "Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that
God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you
crucified."
Act
2:37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said
to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we
do?"
Act
2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of
you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you
will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Act
2:39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who
are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
Act
2:40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying,
"Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
Act
2:41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There
were added that day about three thousand souls.
Act
2:42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and
fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Act
2:43 Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done
through the apostles.
Act
2:44 All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
Act
2:45 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to
all, according as anyone had need.
Act
2:46 Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the
temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with
gladness and singleness of heart,
Act
2:47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord
added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
