Bible Reading May 14, 15
World English Bible
Joshua
9, 10
Jos
9:1 It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in
the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the
great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the
Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it
Jos
9:2 that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and
with Israel, with one accord.
Jos
9:3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to
Jericho and to Ai,
Jos
9:4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had
been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins,
old and torn and bound up,
Jos
9:5 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments.
All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
Jos
9:6 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and
to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now
therefore make a covenant with us."
Jos
9:7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live
among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"
Jos
9:8 They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua
said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"
Jos
9:9 They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far
country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of
his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
Jos
9:10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were
beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan,
who was at Ashtaroth.
Jos
9:11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us,
saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet
them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant
with us." '
Jos
9:12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses
on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and
has become moldy.
Jos
9:13 These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they
are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of
the very long journey."
Jos
9:14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from
the mouth of Yahweh.
Jos
9:15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to
let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
Jos
9:16 It happened at the end of three days after they had made a
covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors,
and that they lived among them.
Jos
9:17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the
third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and
Kiriath Jearim.
Jos
9:18 The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes
of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel.
All the congregation murmured against the princes.
Jos
9:19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have
sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not
touch them.
Jos
9:20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on
us, because of the oath which we swore to them."
Jos
9:21 The princes said to them, "Let them live, so they became
wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the
princes had spoken to them."
Jos
9:22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why
have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you
live among us?
Jos
9:23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail
to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the
house of my God."
Jos
9:24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants
were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses
to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the
land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives
because of you, and have done this thing.
Jos
9:25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and
right to you to do."
Jos
9:26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the
children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.
Jos
9:27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for
the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the
place which he should choose.
Jos
10:1 Now it happened when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how
Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to
Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the
inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among
them;
Jos
10:2 that they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as
one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all
its men were mighty.
Jos
10:3 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of
Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to
Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Jos
10:4 "Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for
it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."
Jos
10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of
Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went
up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made
war against it.
Jos
10:6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying,
"Don't abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly, and save
us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the
hill country have gathered together against us."
Jos
10:7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
Jos
10:8 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't fear them, for I have
delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before
you."
Jos
10:9 Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from Gilgal
all night.
Jos
10:10 Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a
great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent
of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
Jos
10:11 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were
at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from
the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died
from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed with the
sword.
Jos
10:12 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered
up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the
sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in
the valley of Aijalon!"
Jos
10:13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had
avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book
of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry
to go down about a whole day.
Jos
10:14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh
listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
Jos
10:15 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to
Gilgal.
Jos
10:16 These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at
Makkedah.
Jos
10:17 Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings are found,
hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
Jos
10:18 Joshua said, "Roll large stones to the mouth of the cave,
and set men by it to guard them;
Jos
10:19 but don't stay. Pursue your enemies, and them from the rear.
Don't allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has
delivered them into your hand."
Jos
10:20 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had
finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were
consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the
fortified cities,
Jos
10:21 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah
in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of
Israel.
Jos
10:22 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring
those five kings out of the cave to me."
Jos
10:23 They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to
him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth,
the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
Jos
10:24 It happened, when they brought those kings out to Joshua, that
Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of
the men of war who went with him, "Come near, put your feet on
the necks of these kings." They came near, and put their feet on
their necks.
Jos
10:25 Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed.
Be strong and of good courage, for Yahweh will do this to all your
enemies against whom you fight."
Jos
10:26 Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged
them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.
Jos
10:27 It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that
Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast
them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid
great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
Jos
10:28 Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge
of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed them and all the
souls who were in it. He left none remaining. He did to the king of
Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Jos
10:29 Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to
Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
Jos
10:30 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of
Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls
who were in it. He left none remaining in it. He did to its king as
he had done to the king of Jericho.
Jos
10:31 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to
Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.
Jos
10:32 Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it
on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all
the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to
Libnah.
Jos
10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua
struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Jos
10:34 Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon;
and they encamped against it fought against it.
Jos
10:35 They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the
sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day,
according to all that he had done to Lachish.
Jos
10:36 Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron;
and they fought against it.
Jos
10:37 They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with
its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He
left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but
he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.
Jos
10:38 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought
against it.
Jos
10:39 He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them
with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who
were in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he
did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to
its king.
Jos
10:40 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the
South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left
none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as
Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
Jos
10:41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all
the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.
Jos
10:42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time,
because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Jos
10:43 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to
Gilgal.
Joshua
11, 12
Jos
11:1 It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent
to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of
Achshaph,
Jos
11:2 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in
the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of
Dor on the west,
Jos
11:3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill
country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Jos
11:4 They went out, they and all their armies with them, many
people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with
very many horses and chariots.
Jos
11:5 All these kings met together; and they came and encamped
together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
Jos
11:6 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them;
for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before
Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with
fire."
Jos
11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against
them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.
Jos
11:8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck
them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to
the valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them
none remaining.
Jos
11:9 Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their
horses and burnt their chariots with fire.
Jos
11:10 Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck
its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those
kingdoms.
Jos
11:11 They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the
sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed.
He burnt Hazor with fire.
Jos
11:12 Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their
kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.
Jos
11:13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel
burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
Jos
11:14 The children of Israel took all the spoil of these cities,
with the livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every man they
struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them.
They didn't leave any who breathed.
Jos
11:15 As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded
Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Jos
11:16 So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the
South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill
country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
Jos
11:17 from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in
the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings,
struck them, and put them to death.
Jos
11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Jos
11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of
Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all
in battle.
Jos
11:20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against
Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might
have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
Jos
11:21 Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill
country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill
country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua
utterly destroyed them with their cities.
Jos
11:22 There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children
of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
Jos
11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh
spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel
according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from
war.
Jos
12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of
Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the
Arabah eastward:
Jos
12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled
from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the
middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the
border of the children of Ammon;
Jos
12:3 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the
sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth
Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
Jos
12:4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the
Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Jos
12:5 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan,
to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead,
the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Jos
12:6 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck
them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Jos
12:7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of
Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley
of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it
to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their
divisions;
Jos
12:8 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and
in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite,
the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite:
Jos
12:9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside
Bethel, one;
Jos
12:10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Jos
12:11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Jos
12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
Jos
12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
Jos
12:14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
Jos
12:15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Jos
12:16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Jos
12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Jos
12:18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
Jos
12:19 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
Jos
12:20 the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
Jos
12:21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Jos
12:22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
Jos
12:23 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim
in Gilgal, one;
Jos
12:24 the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.
Luke 24
Luk
24:1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some
others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Luk
24:2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
Luk
24:3 They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body.
Luk
24:4 It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this,
behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
Luk
24:5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
Luk
24:6 He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he
was still in Galilee,
Luk
24:7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands
of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"
Luk
24:8 They remembered his words,
Luk
24:9 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the
eleven, and to all the rest.
Luk
24:10 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of
James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.
Luk
24:11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't
believe them.
Luk
24:12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in,
he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to
his home, wondering what had happened.
Luk
24:13 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village
named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.
Luk
24:14 They talked with each other about all of these things which
had happened.
Luk
24:15 It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that
Jesus himself came near, and went with them.
Luk
24:16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
Luk
24:17 He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk,
and are sad?"
Luk
24:18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the
only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have
happened there in these days?"
Luk
24:19 He said to them, "What things?" They said to him,
"The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet
mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
Luk
24:20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to
be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Luk
24:21 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel.
Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things
happened.
Luk
24:22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived
early at the tomb;
Luk
24:23 and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they
had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
Luk
24:24 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women
had said, but they didn't see him."
Luk
24:25 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to
believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Luk
24:26 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter
into his glory?"
Luk
24:27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained
to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luk
24:28 They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he
acted like he would go further.
Luk
24:29 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost
evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with
them.
Luk
24:30 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them,
he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
Luk
24:31 Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he
vanished out of their sight.
Luk
24:32 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning
within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened
the Scriptures to us?"
Luk
24:33 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found
the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,
Luk
24:34 saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to
Simon!"
Luk
24:35 They related the things that happened along the way, and how
he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
Luk
24:36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and
said to them, "Peace be to you."
Luk
24:37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed
that they had seen a spirit.
Luk
24:38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts
arise in your hearts?
Luk
24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and
see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I
have."
Luk
24:40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
Luk
24:41 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said
to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
Luk
24:42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
Luk
24:43 He took them, and ate in front of them.
Luk
24:44 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was
still with you, that all things which are written in the law of
Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be
fulfilled."
Luk
24:45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the
Scriptures.
Luk
24:46 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was
necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the
third day,
Luk
24:47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached
in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Luk
24:48 You are witnesses of these things.
Luk
24:49 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait
in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on
high."
Luk
24:50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands,
and blessed them.
Luk
24:51 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from
them, and was carried up into heaven.
Luk
24:52 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
Luk
24:53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.
Amen.
