Bible Reading
July 2
The World English Bible (WEB)
July
2
1
Kings 13-15
1Ki
13:1 Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn
incense.
1Ki
13:2 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said,
altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to the
house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the
priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones
shall they burn on you.
1Ki
13:3 He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which
Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes
that are on it shall be poured out.
1Ki
13:4 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God,
which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth
his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he
put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back
again to him.
1Ki
13:5 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the
altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the
word of Yahweh.
1Ki
13:6 The king answered the man of God, Entreat now the favor of
Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me
again. The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was
restored him again, and became as it was before.
1Ki
13:7 The king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh
yourself, and I will give you a reward.
1Ki
13:8 The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your
house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink
water in this place;
1Ki
13:9 for so was it commanded me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You
shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that
you came.
1Ki
13:10 So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he
came to Bethel.
1Ki
13:11 Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons
came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day
in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they
told to their father.
1Ki
13:12 Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons
had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
1Ki
13:13 He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him
the donkey; and he rode thereon.
1Ki
13:14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an
oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah?
He said, I am.
1Ki
13:15 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
1Ki
13:16 He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you;
neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
1Ki
13:17 for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no
bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you
came.
1Ki
13:18 He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel
spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you
into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But
he lied to him.
1Ki
13:19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and
drank water.
1Ki
13:20 It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh
came to the prophet who brought him back;
1Ki
13:21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying,
Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of
Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God
commanded you,
1Ki
13:22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the
place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your
body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.
1Ki
13:23 It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk,
that he saddled for him the donkey, to
wit, for the prophet whom he had brought
back.
1Ki
13:24 When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him:
and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; the
lion also stood by the body.
1Ki
13:25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and
the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city
where the old prophet lived.
1Ki
13:26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of
it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth
of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has
torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he
spoke to him.
1Ki
13:27 He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. They
saddled it.
1Ki
13:28 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and
the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor
torn the donkey.
1Ki
13:29 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on
the donkey, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old
prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.
1Ki
13:30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
saying,
Alas, my brother!
1Ki
13:31 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his
sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the
man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
1Ki
13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against
the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places
which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen.
1Ki
13:33 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but
made again from among all the people priests of the high places:
whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the
high places.
1Ki
13:34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it
off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
1Ki
14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
1Ki
14:2 Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself,
that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh:
behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I
should be king over this people.
1Ki
14:3 Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go
to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child.
1Ki
14:4 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came
to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were
set by reason of his age.
1Ki
14:5 Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to
inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus you
shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will
feign herself to be another woman.
1Ki
14:6 It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came
in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why do
you pretend to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news.
1Ki
14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because
I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my
people Israel,
1Ki
14:8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it
you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my
commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only
which was right in my eyes,
1Ki
14:9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone
and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger,
and have cast me behind your back:
1Ki
14:10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam,
and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, him
who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel, and will
utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung,
until it be all gone.
1Ki
14:11 Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and
him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh
has spoken it.
1Ki
14:12 Arise therefore, go to your house: and
when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1Ki
14:13 All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of
Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some
good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of
Jeroboam.
1Ki
14:14 Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who
shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
1Ki
14:15 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave
to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because
they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
1Ki
14:16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which
he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.
1Ki
14:17 Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and
as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
1Ki
14:18 All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the
word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
1Ki
14:19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
1Ki
14:20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and
he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
1Ki
14:21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was
Naamah the Ammonitess.
1Ki
14:22 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above
all that their fathers had done.
1Ki
14:23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and
Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
1Ki
14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according
to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before
the children of Israel.
1Ki
14:25 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
1Ki
14:26 and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the
treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took
away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
1Ki
14:27 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and
committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept
the door of the king's house.
1Ki
14:28 It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of
Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard
chamber.
1Ki
14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
1Ki
14:30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
1Ki
14:31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the
Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
1Ki
15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
began Abijam to reign over Judah.
1Ki
15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1Ki
15:3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the
heart of David his father.
1Ki
15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a
lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
Jerusalem;
1Ki
15:5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,
and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the
days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1Ki
15:6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of
his life.
1Ki
15:7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't
they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1Ki
15:8 Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city
of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.
1Ki
15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to
reign over Judah.
1Ki
15:10 Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name
was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1Ki
15:11 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did
David his father.
1Ki
15:12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made.
1Ki
15:13 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because
she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her
image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
1Ki
15:14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the
heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
1Ki
15:15 He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father
had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and
gold, and vessels.
1Ki
15:16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days.
1Ki
15:17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah.
1Ki
15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in
the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's
house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa
sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king
of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
1Ki
15:19 There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and
your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold;
go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart
from me.
1Ki
15:20 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his
armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and
Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1Ki
15:21 It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off
building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
1Ki
15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was
exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber,
with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of
Benjamin, and Mizpah.
1Ki
15:23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and
all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time
of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1Ki
15:24 Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his
place.
1Ki
15:25 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two
years.
1Ki
15:26 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked
in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to
sin.
1Ki
15:27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired
against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to
the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to
Gibbethon.
1Ki
15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill
him, and reigned in his place.
1Ki
15:29 It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the
house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed,
until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which
he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
1Ki
15:30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he
made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked
Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
1Ki
15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't
they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1Ki
15:32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days.
1Ki
15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, and
reigned twenty-four years.
1Ki
15:34 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked
in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to
sin.
Jul.
2, 3
Acts
4
Act
4:1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the
temple and the Sadducees came to them,
Act
4:2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in
Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Act
4:3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next
day, for it was now evening.
Act
4:4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of
the men came to be about five thousand.
Act
4:5 It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and
scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
Act
4:6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander,
and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
Act
4:7 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired,
"By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"
Act
4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You
rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Act
4:9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a
crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
Act
4:10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that
in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God
raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you
whole.
Act
4:11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the
builders, which has become the head of the corner.'
Act
4:12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any
other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be
saved!"
Act
4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had
perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled.
They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
Act
4:14 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could
say nothing against it.
Act
4:15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the
council, they conferred among themselves,
Act
4:16 saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a
notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by
all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.
Act
4:17 But so that this spreads no further among the people, let's
threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this
name."
Act
4:18 They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor
teach in the name of Jesus.
Act
4:19 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in
the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for
yourselves,
Act
4:20 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
Act
4:21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go,
finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone
glorified God for that which was done.
Act
4:22 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was
more than forty years old.
Act
4:23 Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all
that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Act
4:24 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one
accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the
earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Act
4:25 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the
nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Act
4:26 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take
council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.'
Act
4:27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus,
whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles
and the people of Israel, were gathered together
Act
4:28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to
happen.
Act
4:29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to
speak your word with all boldness,
Act
4:30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and
wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
Act
4:31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were
gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and
they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Act
4:32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul.
Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he
possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
Act
4:33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
Act
4:34 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as
were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of
the things that were sold,
Act
4:35 and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made
to each, according as anyone had need.
Act
4:36 Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is,
being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus
by race,
Act
4:37 having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at
the apostles' feet.
