Bible Reading May 26-28 (World English Bible)
Judges
9, 10
Jdg
9:1 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's
brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house
of his mother's father, saying,
Jdg
9:2 Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is
better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy
persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that
I am your bone and your flesh.
Jdg
9:3 His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of
Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow
Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
Jdg
9:4 They gave him seventy pieces
of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired
vain and light fellows, who followed him.
Jdg
9:5 He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers
the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but
Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
Jdg
9:6 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all
the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of
the pillar that was in Shechem.
Jdg
9:7 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of
Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them,
Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
Jdg
9:8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and
they said to the olive tree, Reign over us.
Jdg
9:9 But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with
which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth
over the trees?
Jdg
9:10 The trees said to the fig tree, Come and reign over us.
Jdg
9:11 But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and
my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
Jdg
9:12 The trees said to the vine, Come and reign over us.
Jdg
9:13 The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers
God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
Jdg
9:14 Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come and reign over us.
Jdg
9:15 The bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king
over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire
come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Jdg
9:16 Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that
you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with
Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the
deserving of his hands
Jdg
9:17 (for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and
delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Jdg
9:18 and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and
have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made
Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of
Shechem, because he is your brother);
Jdg
9:19 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and
with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also
rejoice in you:
Jdg
9:20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the
men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from
the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour
Abimelech.
Jdg
9:21 Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there,
for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Jdg
9:22 Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
Jdg
9:23 God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of
Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
Jdg
9:24 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might
come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother,
who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his
hands to kill his brothers.
Jdg
9:25 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the
mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and
it was told Abimelech.
Jdg
9:26 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to
Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
Jdg
9:27 They went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and
trod the grapes,
and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat
and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
Jdg
9:28 Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who is
Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn't he the son of Jerubbaal? and
Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but
why should we serve him?
Jdg
9:29 Would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove
Abimelech." He said to Abimelech, Increase your army, and come
out.
Jdg
9:30 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the
son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
Jdg
9:31 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal
the son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and behold,
they constrain the city to take part
against you.
Jdg
9:32 Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with
you, and lie in wait in the field:
Jdg
9:33 and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up,
you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and behold, when he and
the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to
them as you shall find occasion.
Jdg
9:34 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by
night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
Jdg
9:35 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the
gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with
him, from the ambush.
Jdg
9:36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come
people down from the tops of the mountains. Zebul said to him, You
see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
Jdg
9:37 Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, there come people down by
the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak
of Meonenim.
Jdg
9:38 Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said,
Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people
that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.
Jdg
9:39 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with
Abimelech.
Jdg
9:40 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell
many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
Jdg
9:41 Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his
brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
Jdg
9:42 It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the
field; and they told Abimelech.
Jdg
9:43 He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and
laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came
forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.
Jdg
9:44 Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed
forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the
two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.
Jdg
9:45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the
city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the
city, and sowed it with salt.
Jdg
9:46 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they
entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
Jdg
9:47 It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem
were gathered together.
Jdg
9:48 Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who
were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a
bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder:
and he said to the people who were with him, What you have seen me
do, make haste, and do as I have done.
Jdg
9:49 All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and
followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the
stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of
Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
Jdg
9:50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and
took it.
Jdg
9:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled
all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves
in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
Jdg
9:52 Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew
near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Jdg
9:53 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head,
and broke his skull.
Jdg
9:54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and
said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A
woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died.
Jdg
9:55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they
departed every man to his place.
Jdg
9:56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to
his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
Jdg
9:57 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on
their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of
Jerubbaal.
Jdg
10:1 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of
Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in
the hill country of Ephraim.
Jdg
10:2 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried
in Shamir.
Jdg
10:3 After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel
twenty-two years.
Jdg
10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they
had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which
are in the land of Gilead.
Jdg
10:5 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
Jdg
10:6 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the
gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the
gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and
they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
Jdg
10:7 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold
them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the
children of Ammon.
Jdg
10:8 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year:
eighteen years oppressed they
all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of
the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Jdg
10:9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also
against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of
Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
Jdg
10:10 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned
against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served
the Baals.
Jdg
10:11 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn't I save you from
the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and
from the Philistines?
Jdg
10:12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did
oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
Jdg
10:13 Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I
will save you no more.
Jdg
10:14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save
you in the time of your distress.
Jdg
10:15 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: do you
to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, we pray you, this
day.
Jdg
10:16 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served
Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Jdg
10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and
encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves
together, and encamped in Mizpah.
Jdg
10:18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, What
man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he
shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
11, 12
Jdg
11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he
was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of
Jephthah.
Jdg
11:2 Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up,
they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit in
our father's house; for you are the son of another woman.
Jdg
11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of
Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went
out with him.
Jdg
11:4 It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war
against Israel.
Jdg
11:5 It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against
Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of
Tob;
Jdg
11:6 and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may
fight with the children of Ammon.
Jdg
11:7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Didn't you hate me, and
drive me out of my father's house? and why have you come to me now
when you are in distress?
Jdg
11:8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we turned
again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the
children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants
of Gilead.
Jdg
11:9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home
again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them
before me, shall I be your head?
Jdg
11:10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Yahweh shall be witness
between us; surely according to your word so will we do.
Jdg
11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people
made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words
before Yahweh in Mizpah.
Jdg
11:12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon,
saying, What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to
fight against my land?
Jdg
11:13 The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers
of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of
Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now
therefore restore those lands
again peaceably.
Jdg
11:14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of
Ammon;
Jdg
11:15 and he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take
away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
Jdg
11:16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the
wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
Jdg
11:17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying,
Please let me pass through your land; but the king of Edom didn't
listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would
not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Jdg
11:18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the
land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the
land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but
they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the
border of Moab.
Jdg
11:19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king
of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, please, through your
land to my place.
Jdg
11:20 But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his border; but
Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and
fought against Israel.
Jdg
11:21 Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people
into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed
all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
Jdg
11:22 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon
even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
Jdg
11:23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the
Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
Jdg
11:24 Won't you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to
possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us,
them will we possess.
Jdg
11:25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king
of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight
against them?
Jdg
11:26 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and
its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the
Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that
time?
Jdg
11:27 I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong
to war against me: Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the
children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Jdg
11:28 However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen to the
words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Jdg
11:29 Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over
Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from
Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
Jdg
11:30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed
deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
Jdg
11:31 then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of
my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of
Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will offer it up for a burnt
offering.
Jdg
11:32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight
against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
Jdg
11:33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even
twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So
the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Jdg
11:34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter
came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was
his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
Jdg
11:35 It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and
said, Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you are
one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh,
and I can't go back.
Jdg
11:36 She said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to
Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your
mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies,
even on the children of Ammon.
Jdg
11:37 She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me
alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and
bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
Jdg
11:38 He said, Go. He sent her away for two months: and she
departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the
mountains.
Jdg
11:39 It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her
father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and
she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,
Jdg
11:40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the
daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Jdg
12:1 The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed
northward; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight
against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? we
will burn your house around you with fire.
Jdg
12:2 Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife
with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me
out of their hand.
Jdg
12:3 When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand,
and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered
them into my hand: why then have you come up to me this day, to fight
against me?
Jdg
12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and
fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because
they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst
of Ephraim, and
in the midst of Manasseh.
Jdg
12:5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the
Ephraimites. It was so, that when any of
the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said
to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No;
Jdg
12:6 then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said
Sibboleth; for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they
laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. There
fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.
Jdg
12:7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
Gileadite, and was buried in one of
the cities of Gilead.
Jdg
12:8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Jdg
12:9 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and
thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged
Israel seven years.
Jdg
12:10 Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
Jdg
12:11 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged
Israel ten years.
Jdg
12:12 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the
land of Zebulun.
Jdg
12:13 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged
Israel.
Jdg
12:14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy
donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Jdg
12:15 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried
in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the
Amalekites.
Judges
13, 14
Jdg
13:1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the
Philistines forty years.
Jdg
13:2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites,
whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
Jdg
13:3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, See
now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear
a son.
Jdg
13:4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink,
and don't eat any unclean thing:
Jdg
13:5 for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from
the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
Jdg
13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God
came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very
awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me
his name:
Jdg
13:7 but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son;
and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean
thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the
day of his death.
Jdg
13:8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let
the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what
we shall do to the child who shall be born.
Jdg
13:9 God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came
again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband,
wasn't with her.
Jdg
13:10 The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said
to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the other
day.
Jdg
13:11 Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man,
and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? He said, I
am.
Jdg
13:12 Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the
ordering of the child, and how
shall we do to him?
Jdg
13:13 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the
woman let her beware.
Jdg
13:14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither
let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all
that I commanded her let her observe.
Jdg
13:15 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain
you, that we may make ready a kid for you.
Jdg
13:16 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I
won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering,
you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the
angel of Yahweh.
Jdg
13:17 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that
when your words happen, we may honor you?
Jdg
13:18 The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name,
seeing it is wonderful?
Jdg
13:19 So Manoah took the kid with the meal offering, and offered it
on the rock to Yahweh: and the angel
did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Jdg
13:20 For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from
off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the
altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their
faces to the ground.
Jdg
13:21 But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his
wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
Jdg
13:22 Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have
seen God.
Jdg
13:23 But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us,
he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our
hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at
this time have told such things as these.
Jdg
13:24 The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child
grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
Jdg
13:25 The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between
Zorah and Eshtaol.
Jdg
14:1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the
daughters of the Philistines.
Jdg
14:2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I
have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now
therefore get her for me as wife.
Jdg
14:3 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a
woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people,
that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson
said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
Jdg
14:4 But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of
Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at
that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
Jdg
14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to
Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion
roared against him.
Jdg
14:6 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as
he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he
didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Jdg
14:7 He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson
well.
Jdg
14:8 After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to
see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in
the body of the lion, and honey.
Jdg
14:9 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and
he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but
he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of
the lion.
Jdg
14:10 His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a
feast; for so used the young men to do.
Jdg
14:11 It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty
companions to be with him.
Jdg
14:12 Samson said to them, Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can
declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out,
then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of
clothing;
Jdg
14:13 but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall give me
thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to
him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.
Jdg
14:14 He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the
strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't in three days declare the
riddle.
Jdg
14:15 It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's
wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest
we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to
impoverish us? is it not so?
Jdg
14:16 Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You just hate me, and
don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my
people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't
told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
Jdg
14:17 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted:
and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she
pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her
people.
Jdg
14:18 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the
sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than
a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you
wouldn't have found out my riddle.
Jdg
14:19 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to
Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and
gave the changes of clothing
to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went
up to his father's house.
Jdg
14:20 But Samson's wife was given
to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
May 26, 27
John 6
Joh 6:1
After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of
Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
Joh 6:2 A
great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did
on those who were sick.
Joh 6:3
Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
Joh 6:4
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
Joh 6:5
Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great
multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to
buy bread, that these may eat?"
Joh 6:6
This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Joh 6:7
Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not
sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
Joh 6:8
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
Joh 6:9
"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish,
but what are these among so many?"
Joh 6:10
Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much
grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five
thousand.
Joh 6:11
Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the
disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise
also of the fish as much as they desired.
Joh 6:12
When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the
broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."
Joh 6:13
So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken
pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who
had eaten.
Joh 6:14
When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said,
"This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."
Joh 6:15
Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him
by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by
himself.
Joh 6:16
When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
Joh 6:17
and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to
Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
Joh 6:18
The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
Joh 6:19
When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia,
they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and
they were afraid.
Joh 6:20
But he said to them, "It is I. Don't be afraid."
Joh 6:21
They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately
the boat was at the land where they were going.
Joh 6:22
On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the
sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which
his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his
disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
Joh 6:23
However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the
bread after the Lord had given thanks.
Joh 6:24
When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his
disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum,
seeking Jesus.
Joh 6:25
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him,
"Rabbi, when did you come here?"
Joh 6:26
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me,
not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and
were filled.
Joh 6:27
Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which
remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For
God the Father has sealed him."
Joh 6:28
They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work
the works of God?"
Joh 6:29
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe
in him whom he has sent."
Joh 6:30
They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign,
that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
Joh 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He
gave them bread out of heaven to eat.' "
Joh 6:32
Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it
wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father
gives you the true bread out of heaven.
Joh 6:33
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and
gives life to the world."
Joh 6:34
They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
Joh 6:35
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me
will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
Joh 6:36
But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.
Joh 6:37
All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to
me I will in no way throw out.
Joh 6:38
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will
of him who sent me.
Joh 6:39
This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given
to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:40
This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the
Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise
him up at the last day."
Joh 6:41
The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I
am the bread which came down out of heaven."
Joh 6:42
They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of
heaven?' "
Joh 6:43
Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.
Joh 6:44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I
will raise him up in the last day.
Joh 6:45
It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.'
Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes
to me.
Joh 6:46
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He
has seen the Father.
Joh 6:47
Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
Joh 6:48
I am the bread of life.
Joh 6:49
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Joh 6:50
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat
of it and not die.
Joh 6:51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats
of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give
for the life of the world is my flesh."
Joh 6:52
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can
this man give us his flesh to eat?"
Joh 6:53
Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless
you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't
have life in yourselves.
Joh 6:54
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Joh 6:56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he
who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
Joh 6:58
This is the bread which came down out of heaven-not as our fathers
ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
Joh 6:59
He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
Joh 6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This
is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
Joh 6:61
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this,
said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
Joh 6:62
Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was
before?
Joh 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words
that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Joh 6:64
But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew
from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was
who would betray him.
Joh 6:65
He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come
to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
Joh 6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with
him.
Joh 6:67
Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go
away, do you?"
Joh 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have
the words of eternal life.
Joh 6:69
We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of
the living God."
Joh 6:70
Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one
of you is a devil?"
Joh 6:71
Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who
would betray him, being one of the twelve.
John 7
Joh 7:1
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't
walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
Joh 7:2
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
Joh 7:3
His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go
into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
Joh 7:4
For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known
openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
Joh 7:5
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
Joh 7:6
Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but
your time is always ready.
Joh 7:7
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about
it, that its works are evil.
Joh 7:8
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because
my time is not yet fulfilled."
Joh 7:9
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
Joh 7:10
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up,
not publicly, but as it were in secret.
Joh 7:11
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is
he?"
Joh 7:12
There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some
said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he
leads the multitude astray."
Joh 7:13
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
Joh 7:14
But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the
temple and taught.
Joh 7:15
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know
letters, having never been educated?"
Joh 7:16
Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his
who sent me.
Joh 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching,
whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
Joh 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the
glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Joh 7:19
Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why
do you seek to kill me?"
Joh 7:20
The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill
you?"
Joh 7:21
Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because
of it.
Joh 7:22
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the
fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
Joh 7:23
If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses
may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man
completely healthy on the Sabbath?
Joh 7:24
Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
Joh 7:25
Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom
they seek to kill?
Joh 7:26
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that
the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
Joh 7:27
However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes,
no one will know where he comes from."
Joh 7:28
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You
both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself,
but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
Joh 7:29
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
Joh 7:30
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him,
because his hour had not yet come.
Joh 7:31
But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the
Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has
done, will he?"
Joh 7:32
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning
him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest
him.
Joh 7:33
Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then
I go to him who sent me.
Joh 7:34
You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
Joh 7:35
The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man
go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the
Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
Joh 7:36
What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me;
and where I am, you can't come'? "
Joh 7:37
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried
out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
Joh 7:38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him
will flow rivers of living water."
Joh 7:39
But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were
to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus
wasn't yet glorified.
Joh 7:40
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said,
"This is truly the prophet."
Joh 7:41
Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What,
does the Christ come out of Galilee?
Joh 7:42
Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David,
and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
Joh 7:43
So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
Joh 7:44
Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
Joh 7:45
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and
they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
Joh 7:46
The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
Joh 7:47
The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led
astray, are you?
Joh 7:48
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
Joh 7:49
But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
Joh 7:50
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to
them,
Joh 7:51
"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him
personally and knows what he does?"
Joh 7:52
They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see
that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
Joh 7:53
Everyone went to his own house,
