Bible reading
June 29
The World English Bible
June
29
1
Kings 4-6
1Ki
4:1 King Solomon was king over all Israel.
1Ki
4:2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok,
the priest;
1Ki
4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
1Ki
4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and
Abiathar were priests;
1Ki
4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud
the son of Nathan was chief minister, and
the king's friend;
1Ki
4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda
was over the men subject to forced labor.
1Ki
4:7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food
for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a
month in the year.
1Ki
4:8 These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
1Ki
4:9 Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon
Beth Hanan;
1Ki
4:10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained
Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
1Ki
4:11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the
daughter of Solomon as wife);
1Ki
4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth
Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to
Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
1Ki
4:13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him pertained
the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even
to him pertained
the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with
walls and bronze bars);
1Ki
4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
1Ki
4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of
Solomon as wife);
1Ki
4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1Ki
4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
1Ki
4:18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
1Ki
4:19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of
Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he
was the only officer who was in the
land.
1Ki
4:20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in
multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1Ki
4:21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land
of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute,
and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1Ki
4:22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine
flour, and sixty measures of meal,
1Ki
4:23 ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the
pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and
roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1Ki
4:24 For he had dominion over all the
region on this side the River, from
Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and
he had peace on all sides around him.
1Ki
4:25 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and
under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of
Solomon.
1Ki
4:26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen.
1Ki
4:27 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who
came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let
nothing be lacking.
1Ki
4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought
they to the place where the officers
were, every man according to his duty.
1Ki
4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
1Ki
4:30 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the
east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1Ki
4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in
all the nations all around.
1Ki
4:32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one
thousand five.
1Ki
4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to
the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals,
and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
1Ki
4:34 There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from
all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1Ki
5:1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had
heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for
Hiram was ever a lover of David.
1Ki
5:2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1Ki
5:3 You know how that David my father could not build a house for
the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every
side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.
1Ki
5:4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; there is
neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.
1Ki
5:5 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my
God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I
will set on your throne in your room, he shall build the house for my
name.
1Ki
5:6 Now therefore command you that they cut me cedar trees out of
Lebanon; and my servants shall be with your servants; and I will give
you hire for your servants according to all that you shall say: for
you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber
like the Sidonians.
1Ki
5:7 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given
to David a wise son over this great people.
1Ki
5:8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the
message which you have sent to me: I
will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning
timber of fir.
1Ki
5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I
will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall
appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall
receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for
my household.
1Ki
5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir
according to all his desire.
1Ki
5:11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food
to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon
to Hiram year by year.
1Ki
5:12 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was
peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
1Ki
5:13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was
thirty thousand men.
1Ki
5:14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a
month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was
over the men subject to forced labor.
1Ki
5:15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty
thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
1Ki
5:16 besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three
thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored
in the work.
1Ki
5:17 The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly
stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
1Ki
5:18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did
fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the
house.
1Ki
6:1 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth
year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the
second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
1Ki
6:2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was
sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits,
and its height thirty cubits.
1Ki
6:3 The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its
length, according to the breadth of the house; and
ten cubits was its breadth before the house.
1Ki
6:4 For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.
1Ki
6:5 Against the wall of the house he built stories all around,
against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of
the oracle; and he made side chambers all around.
1Ki
6:6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was
six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the
outside he made offsets in the wall
of the house all around, that the beams
should not have hold in the walls of the house.
1Ki
6:7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any
tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1Ki
6:8 The door for the middle side chambers was in the right side of
the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story,
and out of the middle into the third.
1Ki
6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house
with beams and planks of cedar.
1Ki
6:10 He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits
high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1Ki
6:11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,
1Ki
6:12 Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk
in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my
commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you,
which I spoke to David your father.
1Ki
6:13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake
my people Israel.
1Ki
6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1Ki
6:15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar:
from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered
them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house
with boards of fir.
1Ki
6:16 He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with
boards of cedar from the floor to the walls of
the ceiling: he built them
for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
1Ki
6:17 The house, that is, the temple before the
oracle, was forty cubits long.
1Ki
6:18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open
flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1Ki
6:19 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set
there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
1Ki
6:20 Within the oracle was a space of
twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty
cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he
covered the altar with cedar.
1Ki
6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he
drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with
gold.
1Ki
6:22 The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was
finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he
overlaid with gold.
1Ki
6:23 In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten
cubits high.
1Ki
6:24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the
other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to
the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
1Ki
6:25 The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one
measure and one form.
1Ki
6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of
the other cherub.
1Ki
6:27 He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of
the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one
touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the
other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the
house.
1Ki
6:28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
1Ki
6:29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures
of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.
1Ki
6:30 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and
outside.
1Ki
6:31 For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the
lintel and
door posts were a fifth part of the
wall.
1Ki
6:32 So he made
two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim
and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he
spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.
1Ki
6:33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of
olive wood, out of a fourth part of the
wall;
1Ki
6:34 and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door were
folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
1Ki
6:35 He carved thereon
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with
gold fitted on the engraved work.
1Ki
6:36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a
course of cedar beams.
1Ki
6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh
laid, in the month Ziv.
1Ki
6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth
month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according
to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.
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.
