June
19
1
Samuel 31
1Sa
31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount
Gilboa.
1Sa
31:2 The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the
Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons
of Saul.
1Sa
31:3 The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook
him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
1Sa
31:4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust
me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me
through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he was
sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
1Sa
31:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell
on his sword, and died with him.
1Sa
31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all
his men, that same day together.
1Sa
31:7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the
valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of
Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the
cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
1Sa
31:8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip
the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount
Gilboa.
1Sa
31:9 They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent
into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the
house of their idols, and to the people.
1Sa
31:10 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they
fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
1Sa
31:11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him
that which the Philistines had done to Saul,
1Sa
31:12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the
body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan;
and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1Sa
31:13 They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree
in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
June
20
2
Samuel 1-3
2Sa
1:1 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned
from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in
Ziklag;
2Sa
1:2 it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the
camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so
it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did
obeisance.
2Sa
1:3 David said to him, Where do you come from? He said to him, I
have escaped out of the camp of Israel.
2Sa
1:4 David said to him, How did it go? Please tell me. He answered,
The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also
have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead
also.
2Sa
1:5 David said to the young man who told him, How do you know that
Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
2Sa
1:6 The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on
Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the
chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
2Sa
1:7 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I
answered, Here I am.
2Sa
1:8 He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
2Sa
1:9 He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for
anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
2Sa
1:10 So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that
he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that
was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have
brought them here to my lord.
2Sa
1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and
likewise all the men who were with him:
2Sa
1:12 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul,
and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the
house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
2Sa
1:13 David said to the young man who told him, Where are you from?
He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.
2Sa
1:14 David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your
hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?
2Sa
1:15 David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall
on him. He struck him, so that he died.
2Sa
1:16 David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth
has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
2Sa
1:17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over
Jonathan his son
2Sa
1:18 (and he bade them teach the children of Judah the
song of the bow: behold, it is written
in the book of Jashar):
2Sa
1:19 Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the
mighty have fallen!
2Sa
1:20 Don't tell it in Gath. Don't publish it in the streets of
Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the
daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2Sa
1:21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you,
neither fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was
vilely cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
2Sa
1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,
Jonathan's bow didn't turn back. Saul's sword didn't return empty.
2Sa
1:23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In
their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles.
They were stronger than lions.
2Sa
1:24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in
scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
2Sa
1:25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan
is slain on your high places.
2Sa
1:26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been
very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love
of women.
2Sa
1:27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
2Sa
2:1 It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying,
Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? Yahweh said to him, Go
up. David said, Where shall I go up? He said, To Hebron.
2Sa
2:2 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
2Sa
2:3 His men who were with him did David bring up, every man with his
household: and they lived in the cities of Hebron.
2Sa
2:4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over
the house of Judah. They told David, saying, The men of Jabesh Gilead
were those who buried Saul.
2Sa
2:5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to
them, Blessed be you of Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to
your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
2Sa
2:6 Now Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you: and I also
will rewarde you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
2Sa
2:7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul
your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king
over them.
2Sa
2:8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken
Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
2Sa
2:9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and
over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all
Israel.
2Sa
2:10 Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to
reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah
followed David.
2Sa
2:11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah
was seven years and six months.
2Sa
2:12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of
Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2Sa
2:13 Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out,
and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the
one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
2Sa
2:14 Abner said to Joab, Please let the young men arise and play
before us. Joab said, Let them arise.
2Sa
2:15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin,
and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of
David.
2Sa
2:16 They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and thrust
his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore
that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
2Sa
2:17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and
the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
2Sa
2:18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and
Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
2Sa
2:19 Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn to the
right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
2Sa
2:20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, Asahel? He
answered, It is I.
2Sa
2:21 Abner said to him, Turn aside to your right hand or to your
left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor. But Asahel
would not turn aside from following him.
2Sa
2:22 Abner said again to Asahel, Turn aside from following me: why
should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face
to Joab your brother?
2Sa
2:23 However he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the
hinder end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear
came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same
place: and it happened, that as many as came to the place where
Asahel fell down and died stood still.
2Sa
2:24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down
when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by
the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
2Sa
2:25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after
Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
2Sa
2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword
devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the
latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people
return from following their brothers?"
2Sa
2:27 Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in
the morning the people had gone away, nor followed everyone his
brother.
2Sa
2:28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and
pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
2Sa
2:29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and
they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came
to Mahanaim.
2Sa
2:30 Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered
all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen
men and Asahel.
2Sa
2:31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of
Abner's men, so that
three hundred sixty men died.
2Sa
2:32 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father,
which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day
broke on them at Hebron.
2Sa
3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house
of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul
grew weaker and weaker.
2Sa
3:2 To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon,
of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
2Sa
3:3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of
Talmai king of Geshur;
2Sa
3:4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth,
Shephatiah the son of Abital;
2Sa
3:5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born
to David in Hebron.
2Sa
3:6 It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul and
the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of
Saul.
2Sa
3:7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of
Aiah: and Ishbosheth
said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?
2Sa
3:8 Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said,
Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness
to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his
friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet
you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
2Sa
3:9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to
David, I don't do even so to him;
2Sa
3:10 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up
the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to
Beersheba.
2Sa
3:11 He could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.
2Sa
3:12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is
the land? saying also,
Make your league with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you, to
bring about all Israel to you.
2Sa
3:13 He said, Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing I
require of you: that is, you shall not see my face, unless you first
bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.
2Sa
3:14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying,
Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one
hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
2Sa
3:15 Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from
Paltiel the son of Laish.
2Sa
3:16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her
to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return: and he returned.
2Sa
3:17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In
times past you sought for David to be king over you:
2Sa
3:18 now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the
hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand
of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
2Sa
3:19 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also
to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to
Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.
2Sa
3:20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him.
David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
2Sa
3:21 Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all
Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you,
and that you may reign over all that your soul desires. David sent
Abner away; and he went in peace.
2Sa
3:22 Behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and
brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in
Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
2Sa
3:23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told
Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent
him away, and he is gone in peace.
2Sa
3:24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done?
behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, and
he is quite gone?
2Sa
3:25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and
to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you
do.
2Sa
3:26 When Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after
Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: but David
didn't know it.
2Sa
3:27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the
midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in
the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
2Sa
3:28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are
guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
2Sa
3:29 let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house;
and let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue,
or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the
sword, or who lacks bread.
2Sa
3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had
killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
2Sa
3:31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him,
Tear your clothes, and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn
before Abner. King David followed the bier.
2Sa
3:32 They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice,
and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
2Sa
3:33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a
fool dies?
2Sa
3:34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a
man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell. All the
people wept again over him.
2Sa
3:35 All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was
yet day; but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if
I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun be down.
2Sa
3:36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as
whatever the king did pleased all the people.
2Sa
3:37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it
was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
2Sa
3:38 The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there
a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
2Sa
3:39 I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the
sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer
according to his wickedness."
June
21
2
Samuel 4-6
2Sa
4:1 When Ishbosheth,
Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became
feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2Sa
4:2 Ishbosheth,
Saul's son, had
two men who were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah,
and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,
of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to
Benjamin:
2Sa
4:3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as
foreigners there until this day).
2Sa
4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He
was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of
Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she
made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was
Mephibosheth.
2Sa
4:5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and
came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took
his rest at noon.
2Sa
4:6 They came there into the midst of the house, as though they
would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab
and Baanah his brother escaped.
2Sa
4:7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his
bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and
took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
2Sa
4:8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said
to the king, Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your
enemy, who sought your life; and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king
this day of Saul, and of his seed.
2Sa
4:9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed
my soul out of all adversity,
2Sa
4:10 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to
have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag,
which was the reward I gave him for his news.
2Sa
4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in
his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your
hand, and take you away from the earth?
2Sa
4:12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut
off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in
Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the
grave of Abner in Hebron.
2Sa
5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and
spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
2Sa
5:2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led
out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh said to you, You shall be
shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.
2Sa
5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king
David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: and they
anointed David king over Israel.
2Sa
5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned forty years.
2Sa
5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and
in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
2Sa
5:6 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Unless you
take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here;
thinking, David can't come in here.
2Sa
5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the
city of David.
2Sa
5:8 David said on that day, Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him
get up to the watercourse, and strike
the lame and the blind, who are hated of David's soul. Therefore they
say, There are the blind and the lame; he can't come into the house.
2Sa
5:9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David.
David built around from Millo and inward.
2Sa
5:10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies,
was with him.
2Sa
5:11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
2Sa
5:12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over
Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's
sake.
2Sa
5:13 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem,
after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters
born to David.
2Sa
5:14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem:
Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
2Sa
5:15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
2Sa
5:16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
2Sa
5:17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king
over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David
heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
2Sa
5:18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
5:19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against the
Philistines? will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to
David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your
hand.
2Sa
5:20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he
said, Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of
waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
2Sa
5:21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them
away.
2Sa
5:22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
5:23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up:
make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against the
mulberry trees.
2Sa
5:24 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of
the mulberry trees, that then you shall stir yourself up; for then
Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.
2Sa
5:25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the
Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.
2Sa
6:1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
thirty thousand.
2Sa
6:2 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him,
from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is
called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above
the cherubim.
2Sa
6:3 They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the
house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons
of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
2Sa
6:4 They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the
hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
2Sa
6:5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all
manner of instruments made of
fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with
tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
2Sa
6:6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth
his hand to
the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
2Sa
6:7 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck
him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
2Sa
6:8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah;
and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.
2Sa
6:9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall the
ark of Yahweh come to me?
2Sa
6:10 So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into the
city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom
the Gittite.
2Sa
6:11 The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the
Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, and all his
house.
2Sa
6:12 It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of
Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God.
David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom
into the city of David with joy.
2Sa
6:13 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone
six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
2Sa
6:14 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was
girded with a linen ephod.
2Sa
6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of
Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2Sa
6:16 It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David,
that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw
king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in
her heart.
2Sa
6:17 They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in
the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
2Sa
6:18 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of
Armies.
2Sa
6:19 He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude
of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a
portion of flesh,
and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his
house.
2Sa
6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter
of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king
of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the
handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
uncovers himself!
2Sa
6:21 David said to Michal, It was
before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his
house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel:
therefore will I play before Yahweh.
2Sa
6:22 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own
sight: but of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall honor
me.
2Sa
6:23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her
death.
Jun.
19, 20
John 18
Joh
18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his
disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which
he and his disciples entered.
Joh
18:2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus
often met there with his disciples.
Joh
18:3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers
from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns,
torches, and weapons.
Joh
18:4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to
him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"
Joh
18:5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to
them, "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing
with them.
Joh
18:6 When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went
backward, and fell to the ground.
Joh
18:7 Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?"
They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."
Joh
18:8 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you
seek me, let these go their way,"
Joh
18:9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those
whom you have given me, I have lost none."
Joh
18:10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the
high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name
was Malchus.
Joh
18:11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its
sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely
drink it?"
Joh
18:12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of
the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
Joh
18:13 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to
Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
Joh
18:14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient
that one man should perish for the people.
Joh
18:15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that
disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into
the court of the high priest;
Joh
18:16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other
disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her
who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
Joh
18:17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you
also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."
Joh
18:18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having
made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves.
Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
Joh
18:19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and
about his teaching.
Joh
18:20 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I
always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always
meet. I said nothing in secret.
Joh
18:21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to
them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
Joh
18:22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped
Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like
that?"
Joh
18:23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of
the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"
Joh
18:24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
Joh
18:25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said
therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are
you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
Joh
18:26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of
him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the
garden with him?"
Joh
18:27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster
crowed.
Joh
18:28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It
was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that
they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
Joh
18:29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What
accusation do you bring against this man?"
Joh
18:30 They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we
wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
Joh
18:31 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and
judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to
him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"
Joh
18:32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
signifying by what kind of death he should die.
Joh
18:33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called
Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
Joh
18:34 Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did
others tell you about me?"
Joh
18:35 Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation
and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"
Joh
18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my
Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I
wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from
here."
Joh
18:37 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?"
Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I
have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that
I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens
to my voice."
Joh
18:38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had
said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I
find no basis for a charge against him.
Joh
18:39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at
the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of
the Jews?"
Joh
18:40 Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but
Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
Jun.
21
John 19
Joh
19:1 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
Joh
19:2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his
head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
Joh
19:3 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they
kept slapping him.
Joh
19:4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I
bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a
charge against him."
Joh
19:5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
Joh
19:6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they
shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them,
"Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a
charge against him."
Joh
19:7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he
ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
Joh
19:8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
Joh
19:9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where
are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
Joh
19:10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me?
Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to
crucify you?"
Joh
19:11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against
me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who
delivered me to you has greater sin."
Joh
19:12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried
out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's
friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
Joh
19:13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out,
and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The
Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
Joh
19:14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the
sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
Joh
19:15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify
him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?"
The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
Joh
19:16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took
Jesus and led him away.
Joh
19:17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The
Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
Joh
19:18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either
side one, and Jesus in the middle.
Joh
19:19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was
written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Joh
19:20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place
where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in
Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
Joh
19:21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't
write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'
"
Joh
19:22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Joh
19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the
coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Joh
19:24 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but
cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture
might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among
them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did
these things.
Joh
19:25 But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and
his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Joh
19:26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he
loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your
son!"
Joh
19:27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!"
From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
Joh
19:28 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished,
that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
Joh
19:29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a
sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
Joh
19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It
is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
Joh
19:31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so
that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that
Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away.
Joh
19:32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other who was crucified with him;
Joh
19:33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead,
they didn't break his legs.
Joh
19:34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and
immediately blood and water came out.
Joh
19:35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He
knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
Joh
19:36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."
Joh
19:37 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom
they pierced."
Joh
19:38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of
Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he
might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came
therefore and took away his body.
Joh
19:39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
Joh
19:40 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with
the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
Joh
19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In
the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
Joh
19:42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was
near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
