Bible Reading for June 17 and 18
World English Bible
June
17
1Samuel
27, 28
1Sa
27:1 David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand
of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape
into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to
seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out
of his hand.
1Sa
27:2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who
were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1Sa
27:3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with
his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
1Sa
27:4 It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no
more again for him.
1Sa
27:5 David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes,
let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I
may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city
with you?
1Sa
27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to
the kings of Judah to this day.
1Sa
27:7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the
Philistines was a full year and four months.
1Sa
27:8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites,
and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations
were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur,
even to the land of Egypt.
1Sa
27:9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive,
and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the
camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.
1Sa
27:10 Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? David
said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the
Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
1Sa
27:11 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to
Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and
so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of
the Philistines.
1Sa
27:12 Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel
utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.
1Sa
28:1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their
armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to
David, Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you
and your men.
1Sa
28:2 David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your
servant will do. Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you
keeper of my head for ever.
1Sa
28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and
buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those
who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
1Sa
28:4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and
encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they
encamped in Gilboa.
1Sa
28:5 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and
his heart trembled greatly.
1Sa
28:6 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither
by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1Sa
28:7 Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has a
familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. His
servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar
spirit at Endor.
1Sa
28:8 Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he
and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he
said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up
whoever I shall name to you.
1Sa
28:9 The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how
he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out
of the land: why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to
die?
1Sa
28:10 Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, As Yahweh lives, there
shall no punishment happen to you for this thing.
1Sa
28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to you? He said,
Bring me up Samuel.
1Sa
28:12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and
the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? for you
are Saul.
1Sa
28:13 The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see?
The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
1Sa
28:14 He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man comes
up; and he is covered with a robe. Saul perceived that it was Samuel,
and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.
1Sa
28:15 Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me
up? Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war
against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more,
neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that
you may make known to me what I shall do.
1Sa
28:16 Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh has
departed from you, and has become your adversary?
1Sa
28:17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn
the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to
David.
1Sa
28:18 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't
execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this
thing to you this day.
1Sa
28:19 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the
hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with
me: Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the
Philistines.
1Sa
28:20 Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and
was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no
strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the
night.
1Sa
28:21 The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and
said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I
have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which
you spoke to me.
1Sa
28:22 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your
handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that
you may have strength, when you go on your way.
1Sa
28:23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants,
together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their
voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.
1Sa
28:24 The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried,
and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake
unleavened bread of it:
1Sa
28:25 and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and
they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
June
18
1
Samuel 29, 30
1Sa
29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to
Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.
1Sa
29:2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by
thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with
Achish.
1Sa
29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do
these Hebrews here?
Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Isn't this David, the
servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days,
or rather
these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to
me to this day?
1Sa
29:4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the
princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he
may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him
not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an
adversary to us: for with what should this fellow
reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of
these men?
1Sa
29:5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances,
saying, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?
1Sa
29:6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, As Yahweh lives, you
have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in
the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since
the day of your coming to me to this day: nevertheless the lords
don't favor you.
1Sa
29:7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease
the lords of the Philistines.
1Sa
29:8 David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you
found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day,
that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
1Sa
29:9 Achish answered David, I know that you are good in my sight, as
an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have
said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
1Sa
29:10 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants
of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early
in the morning, and have light, depart.
1Sa
29:11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the
morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines
went up to Jezreel.
1Sa
30:1 It happened, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the
third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on
Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
1Sa
30:2 and had taken captive the women and
all who were therein, both small and
great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their
way.
1Sa
30:3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned
with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were
taken captive.
1Sa
30:4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their
voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
1Sa
30:5 David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
1Sa
30:6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning
him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for
his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in
Yahweh his God.
1Sa
30:7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Please
bring me here the ephod. Abiathar brought there the ephod to David.
1Sa
30:8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, If I pursue after this troop,
shall I overtake them? He answered him, Pursue; for you shall surely
overtake them,
and shall without fail recover all.
1Sa
30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him,
and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
1Sa
30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred
stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook
Besor.
1Sa
30:11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David,
and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
1Sa
30:12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of
raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he
had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
1Sa
30:13 David said to him, To whom do you belong? and where are you
from? He said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite;
and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
1Sa
30:14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that
which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned
Ziklag with fire.
1Sa
30:15 David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? He
said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver
me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this
troop.
1Sa
30:16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad
over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all
the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the
Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
1Sa
30:17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the
next day: and there not a man of them escaped, except four hundred
young men, who rode on camels and fled.
1Sa
30:18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David
rescued his two wives.
1Sa
30:19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great,
neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had
taken to them: David brought back all.
1Sa
30:20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which
they drove before those other
livestock, and said, This is David's spoil.
1Sa
30:21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they
could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook
Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who
were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted
them.
1Sa
30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those
who went with David, and said, Because they didn't go with us, we
will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered,
except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them
away, and depart.
1Sa
30:23 Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, with that
which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the
troop that came against us into our hand.
1Sa
30:24 Who will listen to you in this matter? for as his share is who
goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by the
baggage: they shall share alike.
1Sa
30:25 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and
an ordinance for Israel to this day.
1Sa
30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders
of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you of
the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh:
1Sa
30:27 To those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth
of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,
1Sa
30:28 and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in
Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,
1Sa
30:29 and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the
cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of
the Kenites,
1Sa
30:30 and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in
Borashan, and to those who were in Athach,
1Sa
30:31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where
David himself and his men used to stay.
Jun.
17, 18
John 17
Joh
17:1 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he
said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your
Son may also glorify you;
Joh
17:2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give
eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Joh
17:3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true
God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Joh
17:4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work
which you have given me to do.
Joh
17:5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which
I had with you before the world existed.
Joh
17:6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out
of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They
have kept your word.
Joh
17:7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me
are from you,
Joh
17:8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and
they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and
they have believed that you sent me.
Joh
17:9 I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom
you have given me, for they are yours.
Joh
17:10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I
am glorified in them.
Joh
17:11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I
am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you
have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
Joh
17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.
Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost,
except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Joh
17:13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world,
that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
Joh
17:14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh
17:15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that
you would keep them from the evil one.
Joh
17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
Joh
17:17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Joh
17:18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into
the world.
Joh
17:19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also
may be sanctified in truth.
Joh
17:20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe
in me through their word,
Joh
17:21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and
I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe
that you sent me.
Joh
17:22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that
they may be one, even as we are one;
Joh
17:23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one;
that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you
loved me.
Joh
17:24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with
me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me,
for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Joh
17:25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you;
and these knew that you sent me.
Joh
17:26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that
the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
Most
Bible students recall the brief story of Jephthah and his daughter in
Judges 11:29-40. Upon becoming Judge of Israel, “the Spirit of the Lord
came upon Jephthah” and “he advanced toward the people of Ammon”
(11:29). “And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, ‘If You will
indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands, then it will be that
whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in
peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will
offer it up as a burnt offering” (11:30-31). According to Holy Writ,
Jephthah defeated Ammon, and his daughter was the first to meet him when
he returned home (11:32-34), which meant she was to “be the Lord’s,”
offered as “a burnt offering.” Judges 11:39 states: Jephthah “carried
out his vow with her which he had vowed.”
One
hymn which has attained considerable popularity over the years is R.E.
Winsett’s “Jesus Is Coming Soon.” Since the New Testament teaches that
we are to “sing with the understanding” (1 Corinthians 14:15) and to
refrain from speaking or singing falsehoods (Ephesians 4:25; 5:19), it
behooves us to be conscious of the meanings and biblical significance of
the lyrics which pass from our lips.
