Bible Reading June 9-11 (World English Bible)
1
Samuel 11, 12
1Sa
11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh
Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant
with us, and we will serve you.
1Sa
11:2 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make
it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it
for a reproach on all Israel.
1Sa
11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite,
that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then,
if there be none to save us, we will come out to you.
1Sa
11:4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these
words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their
voice, and wept.
1Sa
11:5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul
said, What ails the people that they weep? They told him the words of
the men of Jabesh.
1Sa
11:6 The Spirit of God came mightily on Saul when he heard those
words, and his anger was kindled greatly.
1Sa
11:7 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them
throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers,
saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so
shall it be done to his oxen. The dread of Yahweh fell on the people,
and they came out as one man.
1Sa
11:8 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were
three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
1Sa
11:9 They said to the messengers who came, Thus you shall tell the
men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall
have deliverance. The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and
they were glad.
1Sa
11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to
you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.
1Sa
11:11 It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three
companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning
watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it
happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of
them were left together.
1Sa
11:12 The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul
reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
1Sa
11:13 Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for
today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.
1Sa
11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal,
and renew the kingdom there.
1Sa
11:15 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king
before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace
offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel
rejoiced greatly.
1Sa
12:1 Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your
voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
1Sa
12:2 Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and
gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked
before you from my youth to this day.
1Sa
12:3 Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before his
anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or
whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I
taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
1Sa
12:4 They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither
have you taken anything of any man's hand.
1Sa
12:5 He said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his
anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my
hand. They said, He is witness.
1Sa
12:6 Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and
Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1Sa
12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before
Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to
you and to your fathers.
1Sa
12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to
Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your
fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.
1Sa
12:9 But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the
hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of
the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they
fought against them.
1Sa
12:10 They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we
have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth:
but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve
you.
1Sa
12:11 Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel,
and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and
you lived in safety.
1Sa
12:12 When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon
came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us;
when Yahweh your God was your king.
1Sa
12:13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you
have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
1Sa
12:14 If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his
voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, and both you
and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your
God, well:
1Sa
12:15 but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel
against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be
against you, as it was against your fathers.
1Sa
12:16 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which
Yahweh will do before your eyes.
1Sa
12:17 Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he
may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your
wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in
asking for a king.
1Sa
12:18 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain
that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
1Sa
12:19 All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to
Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins
this evil,
to ask us a king.
1Sa
12:20 Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have
indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following
Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart:
1Sa
12:21 and don't turn aside; for then
would you go after vain things which
can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
1Sa
12:22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's
sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
1Sa
12:23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin
against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in
the good and the right way.
1Sa
12:24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart;
for consider how great things he has done for you.
1Sa
12:25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed,
both you and your king."
1
Samuel 13, 14
1Sa
13:1 Saul was forty
years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years
over Israel,
1Sa
13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two
thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and
one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest
of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1Sa
13:3 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in
Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
1Sa
13:4 All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of the
Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the
Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
1Sa
13:5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and
people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they
came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
1Sa
13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the
people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in
caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
1Sa
13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of
Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the
people followed him trembling.
1Sa
13:8 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had
appointed: but Samuel didn't come to
Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1Sa
13:9 Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace
offerings. He offered the burnt offering.
1Sa
13:10 It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering
the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet
him, that he might greet him.
1Sa
13:11 Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that
the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within
the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves
together at Michmash;
1Sa
13:12 therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to
Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself
therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
1Sa
13:13 Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not
kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for
now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
1Sa
13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him
a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince
over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh
commanded you.
1Sa
13:15 Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gibeah of
Benjamin. Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about
six hundred men.
1Sa
13:16 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present
with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in
Michmash.
1Sa
13:17 The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three
companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the
land of Shual;
1Sa
13:18 and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another
company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of
Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1Sa
13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords
or spears:
1Sa
13:20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;
1Sa
13:21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares,
and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
1Sa
13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who
were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son
was there found.
1Sa
13:23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of
Michmash.
1Sa
14:1 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the
young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his
father.
1Sa
14:2 Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the
pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him
were about six hundred men;
1Sa
14:3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an
ephod. The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone.
1Sa
14:4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the
Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a
rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and
the name of the other Seneh.
1Sa
14:5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the
other on the south in front of Geba.
1Sa
14:6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and
let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that
Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save
by many or by few.
1Sa
14:7 His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart:
turn and, behold, I am with you according to your heart.
1Sa
14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and
we will disclose ourselves to them.
1Sa
14:9 If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will
stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
1Sa
14:10 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for
Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign
to us.
1Sa
14:11 Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the
Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth
out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
1Sa
14:12 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor
bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has
delivered them into the hand of Israel.
1Sa
14:13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his
armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor
bearer killed them after him.
1Sa
14:14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer
made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length
in an acre of land.
1Sa
14:15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all
the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and
the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
1Sa
14:16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold,
the multitude melted away, and they went here
and there.
1Sa
14:17 Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now,
and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan
and his armor bearer were not there.
1Sa
14:18 Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of
God was there
at that time with the children of Israel.
1Sa
14:19 It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult
that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and
Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
1Sa
14:20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered
together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was
against his fellow, and there was
a very great confusion.
1Sa
14:21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and
who went up with them into the camp, from
the country all around, even they also
turned to
be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
1Sa
14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the
hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled,
even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
1Sa
14:23 So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by
Beth Aven.
1Sa
14:24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until
it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people
tasted food.
1Sa
14:25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on
the ground.
1Sa
14:26 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey
dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared
the oath.
1Sa
14:27 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father commanded the people
with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in
his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his
mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
1Sa
14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father
directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man
who eats food this day. The people were faint.
1Sa
14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please
look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of
this honey.
1Sa
14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of
the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has there been
no great slaughter among the Philistines.
1Sa
14:31 They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon. The people were very faint;
1Sa
14:32 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle,
and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them
with the blood.
1Sa
14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against
Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt
treacherously: roll a great stone to me this day.
1Sa
14:34 Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell
them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and
kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with
the blood. All the people brought every man his ox with him that
night, and killed them there.
1Sa
14:35 Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar
that he built to Yahweh.
1Sa
14:36 Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and
take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a
man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the
priest, Let us draw near here to God.
1Sa
14:37 Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he
didn't answer him that day.
1Sa
14:38 Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and
know and see in which this sin has been this day.
1Sa
14:39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in
Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among
all the people who answered him.
1Sa
14:40 Then said he to all Israel, You be on one side, and I and
Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul,
Do what seems good to you.
1Sa
14:41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the
right. Jonathan and Saul were taken by
lot; but the people escaped.
1Sa
14:42 Saul said, Cast lots
between me and Jonathan my son. Jonathan was taken.
1Sa
14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done.
Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey
with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.
1Sa
14:44 Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die,
Jonathan.
1Sa
14:45 The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked
this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there
shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked
with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't
die.
1Sa
14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the
Philistines went to their own place.
1Sa
14:47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought
against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the
children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah,
and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he put
them to the
worse.
1Sa
14:48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
1Sa
14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua;
and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the
firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1Sa
14:50 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of
Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of
Ner, Saul's uncle.
1Sa
14:51 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was
the son of Abiel.
1Sa
14:52 There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of
Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took
him to him.
1
Samuel 15, 16
1Sa
15:1 Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king
over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice
of the words of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up
out of Egypt.
1Sa
15:3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and
suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
1Sa
15:4 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two
hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1Sa
15:5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
1Sa
15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, go down from among the
Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to
all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the
Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur,
that is before Egypt.
1Sa
15:8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1Sa
15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1Sa
15:10 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
1Sa
15:11 It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is
turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.
Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
1Sa
15:12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told
Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a
monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
1Sa
15:13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you by
Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:14 Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my
ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear?
1Sa
15:15 Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the
people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice
to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1Sa
15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what
Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
1Sa
15:17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight,
weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed
you king over Israel;
1Sa
15:18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they
are consumed.'
1Sa
15:19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the
spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
1Sa
15:20 Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh,
and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the
king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief
of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:22 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
1Sa
15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of
Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.
1Sa
15:24 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed
the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the
people, and obeyed their voice.
1Sa
15:25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh.
1Sa
15:26 Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have
rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being
king over Israel.
1Sa
15:27 As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul
laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
1Sa
15:28 Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from
you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better
than you.
1Sa
15:29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is
not a man, that he should repent.
1Sa
15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before
the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh your God.
1Sa
15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
1Sa
15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring here to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.
1Sa
15:33 Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so your
mother will be childless among women. Samuel cut Agag in pieces
before Yahweh in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
1Sa
15:35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death;
for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul
king over Israel.
1Sa
16:1 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing
I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with
oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have
provided me a king among his sons.
1Sa
16:2 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to
sacrifice to Yahweh.
1Sa
16:3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall
do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
1Sa
16:4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The
elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Do you come
peaceably?
1Sa
16:5 He said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified
Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
1Sa
16:6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and
said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
1Sa
16:7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on
the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Yahweh
sees not as man sees; for man looks at
the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
1Sa
16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He
said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
1Sa
16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh
chosen this.
1Sa
16:10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel
said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
1Sa
16:11 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said,
There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep.
Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down
until he come here.
1Sa
16:12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint
him; for this is he.
1Sa
16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on
David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1Sa
16:14 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
1Sa
16:15 Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God
troubles you.
1Sa
16:16 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to
seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall
happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play
with his hand, and you shall be well.
1Sa
16:17 Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play
well, and bring him to me.
1Sa
16:18 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have
seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and
a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a
comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
1Sa
16:19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me
David your son, who is with the sheep.
1Sa
16:20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine,
and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
1Sa
16:21 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him
greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
1Sa
16:22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me;
for he has found favor in my sight.
1Sa
16:23 It happened, when the evil
spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played
with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil
spirit departed from him.
John 13
Joh 13:1
Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time
had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having
loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Joh 13:2
During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
Joh 13:3
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,
and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
Joh 13:4
arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a
towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
Joh 13:5
Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples'
feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
Joh 13:6
Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash
my feet?"
Joh 13:7
Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you
will understand later."
Joh 13:8
Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus
answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."
Joh 13:9
Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my
hands and my head!"
Joh 13:10
Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have
his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all
of you."
Joh 13:11
For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You
are not all clean."
Joh 13:12
So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and
sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done
to you?
Joh 13:13
You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am.
Joh 13:14
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also
ought to wash one another's feet.
Joh 13:15
For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have
done to you.
Joh 13:16
Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord,
neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
Joh 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Joh 13:18
I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But
that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has
lifted up his heel against me.'
Joh 13:19
From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you
may believe that I am he.
Joh 13:20
Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives
me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
Joh 13:21
When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified,
"Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."
Joh 13:22
The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
Joh 13:23
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning
against Jesus' breast.
Joh 13:24
Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us
who it is of whom he speaks."
Joh 13:25
He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him, "Lord,
who is it?"
Joh 13:26
Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this
piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the
piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Joh 13:27
After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus
said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
Joh 13:28
Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
Joh 13:29
For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to
him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he
should give something to the poor.
Joh 13:30
Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It
was night.
Joh 13:31
When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been
glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
Joh 13:32
If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in
himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
Joh 13:33
Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will
seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't
come,' so now I tell you.
Joh 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like
I have loved you; that you also love one another.
Joh 13:35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have
love for one another."
Joh 13:36
Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus
answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will
follow afterwards."
Joh 13:37
Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay
down my life for you."
Joh 13:38
Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most
certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me
three times.
John 14
Joh 14:1
"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also
in me.
Joh 14:2
In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have
told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will
receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
Joh 14:4
Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
Joh 14:5
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going.
How can we know the way?"
Joh 14:6
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No
one comes to the Father, except through me.
Joh 14:7
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now
on, you know him, and have seen him."
Joh 14:8
Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be
enough for us."
Joh 14:9
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and
do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father.
How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
Joh 14:10
Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The
words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who
lives in me does his works.
Joh 14:11
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else
believe me for the very works' sake.
Joh 14:12
Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I
do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because
I am going to my Father.
Joh 14:13
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may
be glorified in the Son.
Joh 14:14
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Joh 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16
I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor,
that he may be with you forever,-
Joh 14:17
the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see
him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will
be in you.
Joh 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
Joh 14:19
Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will
see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Joh 14:20
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and
I in you.
Joh 14:21
One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who
loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will
love him, and will reveal myself to him."
Joh 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that
you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
Joh 14:23
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My
Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with
him.
Joh 14:24
He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear
isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
Joh 14:25
I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
Joh 14:26
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my
name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I
said to you.
Joh 14:27
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world
gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let
it be fearful.
Joh 14:28
You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you
loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my
Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
Joh 14:29
Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you
may believe.
Joh 14:30
I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world
comes, and he has nothing in me.
Joh 14:31
But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father
commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.