Bible Reading June 6 (World English Bible)
1
Samuel 5, 6
1Sa
5:1 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought
it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
1Sa
5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the
house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1Sa
5:3 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon
was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They
took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
1Sa
5:4 When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was
fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the
head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands lay
cut off on the threshold; only the stump
of Dagon was left to him.
1Sa
5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into
Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this
day.
1Sa
5:6 But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he
destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its
borders.
1Sa
5:7 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of
the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore on
us, and on Dagon our god.
1Sa
5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the
Philistines to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the
God of Israel? They answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be
carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of the God of Israel
there.
1Sa
5:9 It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of
Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he
struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke
out on them.
1Sa
5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark
of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have
brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our
people.
1Sa
5:11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel,
and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our
people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the
hand of God was very heavy there.
1Sa
5:12 The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry
of the city went up to heaven.
1Sa
6:1 The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven
months.
1Sa
6:2 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying,
"What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we
shall send it to its place."
1Sa
6:3 They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel,
don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering:
then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand
is not removed from you."
1Sa
6:4 Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which
we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors,
and five golden mice, according to
the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you
all, and on your lords.
1Sa
6:5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of
your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of
Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from
off your gods, and from off your land.
1Sa
6:6 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh
hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them,
didn't they let the people go, and they departed?
1Sa
6:7 Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two
milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the
cart, and bring their calves home from them;
1Sa
6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the
jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a
coffer by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
1Sa
6:9 Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth
Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we
shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance
that happened to us."
1Sa
6:10 The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the
cart, and shut up their calves at home;
1Sa
6:11 and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with
the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
1Sa
6:12 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; they
went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to
the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went
after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
1Sa
6:13 They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the
valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced
to see it.
1Sa
6:14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and
stood there, where there was a great stone: and they split the wood
of the cart, and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
1Sa
6:15 The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that
was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the
great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and
sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
1Sa
6:16 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they
returned to Ekron the same day.
1Sa
6:17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for
a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for
Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
1Sa
6:18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities
of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified
cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, whereon they
set down the ark of Yahweh, which stone
remains to this day in the field of
Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
1Sa
6:19 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand
seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the
people with a great slaughter.
1Sa
6:20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before
Yahweh, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1Sa
6:21 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim,
saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come
down, and bring it up to yourselves.
John 11
Joh 11:1
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of
Mary and her sister, Martha.
Joh 11:2
It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped
his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
Joh 11:3
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for
whom you have great affection is sick."
Joh 11:4
But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to
death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by
it."
Joh 11:5
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Joh 11:6
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the
place where he was.
Joh 11:7
Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea
again."
Joh 11:8
The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to
stone you, and are you going there again?"
Joh 11:9
Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man
walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of
this world.
Joh 11:10
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't
in him."
Joh 11:11
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our
friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may
awake him out of sleep."
Joh 11:12
The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he
will recover."
Joh 11:13
Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of
taking rest in sleep.
Joh 11:14
So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.
Joh 11:15
I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may
believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
Joh 11:16
Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow
disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."
Joh 11:17
So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days
already.
Joh 11:18
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
Joh 11:19
Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to
console them concerning their brother.
Joh 11:20
Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him,
but Mary stayed in the house.
Joh 11:21
Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been
here, my brother wouldn't have died.
Joh 11:22
Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."
Joh 11:23
Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
Joh 11:24
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection at the last day."
Joh 11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
Joh 11:26
Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?"
Joh 11:27
She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are
the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."
Joh 11:28
When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister,
secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."
Joh 11:29
When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
Joh 11:30
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place
where Martha met him.
Joh 11:31
Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her,
when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed
her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."
Joh 11:32
Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell
down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been
here, my brother wouldn't have died."
Joh 11:33
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came
with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
Joh 11:34
and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord,
come and see."
Joh 11:35
Jesus wept.
Joh 11:36
The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for
him!"
Joh 11:37
Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of
him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
Joh 11:38
Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it
was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
Joh 11:39
Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of
him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a
stench, for he has been dead four days."
Joh 11:40
Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you
would see God's glory?"
Joh 11:41
So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was
lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you
that you listened to me.
Joh 11:42
I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude
that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent
me."
Joh 11:43
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus,
come out!"
Joh 11:44
He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his
face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free
him, and let him go."
Joh 11:45
Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did,
believed in him.
Joh 11:46
But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things
which Jesus had done.
Joh 11:47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and
said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
Joh 11:48
If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and
the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
Joh 11:49
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year,
said to them, "You know nothing at all,
Joh 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man
should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
Joh 11:51
Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year,
he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
Joh 11:52
and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together
into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Joh 11:53
So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to
death.
Joh 11:54
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed
from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called
Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
Joh 11:55
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the
country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
Joh 11:56
Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood
in the temple, "What do you think-that he isn't coming to the
feast at all?"
Joh 11:57
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone
knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
has been intrigued by a particular statement found there. The text
says: “To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his
days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.” What
does the statement, “the earth was divided” mean in this verse? In light
of the modern idea of Pangea (see