Bible Reading
July 16
The World English Bible
July
16
1
Chronicles 10-12
1Ch
10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount
Gilboa.
1Ch
10:2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons;
and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua,
the sons of Saul.
1Ch
10:3 The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook
him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
1Ch
10:4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust
me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But
his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul
took his sword, and fell on it.
1Ch
10:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell
on his sword, and died.
1Ch
10:6 So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died
together.
1Ch
10:7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they
fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their
cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
1Ch
10:8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip
the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
1Ch
10:9 They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent
into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to
their idols, and to the people.
1Ch
10:10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened
his head in the house of Dagon.
1Ch
10:11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done
to Saul,
1Ch
10:12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and
the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their
bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1Ch
10:13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against
Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also
because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire
thereby,
1Ch
10:14 and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and
turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
1Ch
11:1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying,
Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
1Ch
11:2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out
and brought in Israel: and Yahweh your God said to you, You shall be
shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people
Israel.
1Ch
11:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and
David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they
anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by
Samuel.
1Ch
11:4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus);
and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
1Ch
11:5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in
here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the
city of David.
1Ch
11:6 David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief
and captain. Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made
chief.
1Ch
11:7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the
city of David.
1Ch
11:8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab
repaired the rest of the city.
1Ch
11:9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with
him.
1Ch
11:10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who
showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all
Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning
Israel.
1Ch
11:11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had:
Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he
lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one
time.
1Ch
11:12 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was
one of the three mighty men.
1Ch
11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were
gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of
barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
1Ch
11:14 They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and
killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
1Ch
11:15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David,
into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were
encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1Ch
11:16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
1Ch
11:17 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to
drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
1Ch
11:18 The three 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 David would not drink of it, but
poured it out to Yahweh,
1Ch
11:19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I
drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?
for with the jeopardy of
their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These
things did the three mighty men.
1Ch
11:20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for
he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had
a name among the three.
1Ch
11:21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made
their captain: however he didn't attain to the first
three.
1Ch
11:22 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.
1Ch
11:23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits
high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam;
and 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.
1Ch
11:24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name
among the three mighty men.
1Ch
11:25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't
attain to the first
three: and David set him over his guard.
1Ch
11:26 Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab,
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1Ch
11:27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1Ch
11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
1Ch
11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1Ch
11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
Netophathite,
1Ch
11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1Ch
11:32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
1Ch
11:33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
1Ch
11:34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee
the Hararite,
1Ch
11:35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
1Ch
11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
1Ch
11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1Ch
11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
1Ch
11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of
Joab the son of Zeruiah,
1Ch
11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1Ch
11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1Ch
11:42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the
Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1Ch
11:43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
1Ch
11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the
Aroerite,
1Ch
11:45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1Ch
11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of
Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
1Ch
11:47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
1Ch
12:1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet
kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were
among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
1Ch
12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand
and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow:
they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.
1Ch
12:3 The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the
Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah,
and Jehu the Anathothite,
1Ch
12:4 and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and
over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad
the Gederathite,
1Ch
12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and
Shephatiah the Haruphite,
1Ch
12:6 Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam,
the Korahites,
1Ch
12:7 and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
1Ch
12:8 Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the
stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for
war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the
faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;
1Ch
12:9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
1Ch
12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
1Ch
12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
1Ch
12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
1Ch
12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
1Ch
12:14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was
least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
1Ch
12:15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month,
when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them
of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
1Ch
12:16 There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
stronghold to David.
1Ch
12:17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come
peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you
be come to betray me to my adversaries,
seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look
thereon, and rebuke it.
1Ch
12:18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty,
and he said,
"We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse: peace,
peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps
you." Then David received them, and made them captains of the
band.
1Ch
12:19 Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, when he came
with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they didn't help
them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after
consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Saul to the
jeopardy of our heads.
1Ch
12:20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah,
and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and
Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
1Ch
12:21 They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were
all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
1Ch
12:22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there
was a great army, like the army of God.
1Ch
12:23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for
war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him,
according to the word of Yahweh.
1Ch
12:24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six
thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
1Ch
12:25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war,
seven thousand and one hundred.
1Ch
12:26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
1Ch
12:27 Jehoiada was the leader of the
house of Aaron; and with him were three
thousand and seven hundred,
1Ch
12:28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's
house twenty-two captains.
1Ch
12:29 Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three
thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their
allegiance to the house of Saul.
1Ch
12:30 Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred,
mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
1Ch
12:31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were
mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
1Ch
12:32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the
times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two
hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.
1Ch
12:33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could
set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty
thousand, and who could order the battle
array, and were not of double heart.
1Ch
12:34 Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield
and spear thirty-seven thousand.
1Ch
12:35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight
thousand six hundred.
1Ch
12:36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could
set the battle in array, forty thousand.
1Ch
12:37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of
instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
1Ch
12:38 All these being men of war, who could order the battle array,
came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all
Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make
David king.
1Ch
12:39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking;
for their brothers had made preparation for them.
1Ch
12:40 Moreover those who were near to them, even
as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on
donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal,
cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and
cattle, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
Jul.
16, 17
Acts
11
Act
11:1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that
the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Act
11:2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the
circumcision contended with him,
Act
11:3 saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with
them!"
Act
11:4 But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
Act
11:5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw
a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet
let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
Act
11:6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the
four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and
birds of the sky.
Act
11:7 I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'
Act
11:8 But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has
ever entered into my mouth.'
Act
11:9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What
God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'
Act
11:10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into
heaven.
Act
11:11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I
was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
Act
11:12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating.
These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's
house.
Act
11:13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house,
and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is
Peter,
Act
11:14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you
and all your house.'
Act
11:15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on
us at the beginning.
Act
11:16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed
baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
Act
11:17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed
in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"
Act
11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and
glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the
Gentiles repentance to life!"
Act
11:19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression
that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and
Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
Act
11:20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who,
when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the
Lord Jesus.
Act
11:21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number
believed and turned to the Lord.
Act
11:22 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly
which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as
Antioch,
Act
11:23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was
glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should
remain near to the Lord.
Act
11:24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of
faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
Act
11:25 Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
Act
11:26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened,
that for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly,
and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in
Antioch.
Act
11:27 Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to
Antioch.
Act
11:28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit
that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also
happened in the days of Claudius.
Act
11:29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send
relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
Act
11:30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul.
