July
17
1
Chronicles 13-15
1Ch
13:1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds,
even with every leader.
1Ch
13:2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seems good to
you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to
our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the
priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they
may gather themselves to us;
1Ch
13:3 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we didn't
seek it in the days of Saul.
1Ch
13:4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was
right in the eyes of all the people.
1Ch
13:5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the
brook of Egypt even to the entrance of
Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
1Ch
13:6 David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that
is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to
Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh that sits above
the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
1Ch
13:7 They carried the ark of God on a new cart, and
brought it out of the house of Abinadab:
and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
1Ch
13:8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might,
even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and
with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1Ch
13:9 When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth
his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1Ch
13:10 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck
him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died
before God.
1Ch
13:11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzza;
and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
1Ch
13:12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring
the ark of God home to me?
1Ch
13:13 So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David,
but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
1Ch
13:14 The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his
house three months: and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and
all that he had.
1Ch
14:1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
1Ch
14:2 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over
Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's
sake.
1Ch
14:3 David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father
of more sons and daughters.
1Ch
14:4 These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem:
Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
1Ch
14:5 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,
1Ch
14:6 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
1Ch
14:7 and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
1Ch
14:8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over
all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David
heard of it, and went out against them.
1Ch
14:9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of
Rephaim.
1Ch
14:10 David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the
Philistines? and will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to
him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.
1Ch
14:11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there;
and David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breach
of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
1Ch
14:12 They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and
they were burned with fire.
1Ch
14:13 The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.
1Ch
14:14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, You shall
not go up after them: turn away from them, and come on them over
against the mulberry trees.
1Ch
14:15 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops
of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God
is gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.
1Ch
14:16 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of
the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
1Ch
14:17 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought
the fear of him on all nations.
1Ch
15:1 David
made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the
ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1Ch
15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the
Levites: for them has Yahweh chosen to carry the ark of God, and to
minister to him forever.
1Ch
15:3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of
Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it.
1Ch
15:4 David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
1Ch
15:5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one
hundred twenty;
1Ch
15:6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two
hundred twenty;
1Ch
15:7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one
hundred thirty;
1Ch
15:8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers
two hundred;
1Ch
15:9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers
eighty;
1Ch
15:10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers
one hundred twelve.
1Ch
15:11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
Amminadab,
1Ch
15:12 and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' houses
of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that
you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the
place that I have prepared for it.
1Ch
15:13 For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God
made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the
ordinance.
1Ch
15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring
up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1Ch
15:15 The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their
shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according to the
word of Yahweh.
1Ch
15:16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their
brothers the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments
and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with
joy.
1Ch
15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his
brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their
brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1Ch
15:18 and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah,
Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and
Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah,
and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
1Ch
15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were
appointed with cymbals of brass to sound
aloud;
1Ch
15:20 and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and
Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments
set to Alamoth;
1Ch
15:21 and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom,
and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre,
to lead.
1Ch
15:22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he
instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
1Ch
15:23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1Ch
15:24 Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and
Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the
trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were
doorkeepers for the ark.
1Ch
15:25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over
thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of
the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
1Ch
15:26 It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven
rams.
1Ch
15:27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the
Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master
of the song with
the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.
1Ch
15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh
with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and
with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
1Ch
15:29 It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the
city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the
window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him
in her heart.
July
18
1
Chronicles 16-18
1Ch
16:1 They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the
tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings before God.
1Ch
16:2 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.
1Ch
16:3 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every
one a loaf of bread, and a portion of
flesh, and a cake of raisins.
1Ch
16:4 He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark
of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God
of Israel:
1Ch
16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and
Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and
Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
1Ch
16:6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually,
before the ark of the covenant of God.
1Ch
16:7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh,
by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
1Ch
16:8 Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make his doings
known among the peoples.
1Ch
16:9 Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous
works.
1Ch
16:10 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh
rejoice.
1Ch
16:11 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
1Ch
16:12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth,
1Ch
16:13 you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his
chosen ones.
1Ch
16:14 He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
1Ch
16:15 Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to
a thousand generations,
1Ch
16:16 the covenant
which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
1Ch
16:17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel
for an everlasting covenant,
1Ch
16:18 saying, I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your
inheritance,
1Ch
16:19 when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and
foreigners were in it.
1Ch
16:20 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to
another people.
1Ch
16:21 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for
their sakes,
1Ch
16:22 saying,
Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm.
1Ch
16:23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day
to day.
1Ch
16:24 Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works
among all the peoples.
1Ch
16:25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to
be feared above all gods.
1Ch
16:26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the
heavens.
1Ch
16:27 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in
his place.
1Ch
16:28 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to
Yahweh glory and strength!
1Ch
16:29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an
offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.
1Ch
16:30 Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is
established that it can't be moved.
1Ch
16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them
say among the nations, Yahweh reigns.
1Ch
16:32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and
all that is therein!
1Ch
16:33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
for he comes to judge the earth.
1Ch
16:34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever.
1Ch
16:35 Say, Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and
deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to
triumph in your praise.
1Ch
16:36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to
everlasting. All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
1Ch
16:37 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,
Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as
every day's work required;
1Ch
16:38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also
the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
1Ch
16:39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the
tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1Ch
16:40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt
offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that
is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel;
1Ch
16:41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were
chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because
his loving kindness endures forever;
1Ch
16:42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with
trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with
instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at
the gate.
1Ch
16:43 All the people departed every man to his house: and David
returned to bless his house.
1Ch
17:1 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to
Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh dwells
under curtains.
1Ch
17:2 Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is
with you.
1Ch
17:3 It happened the same night, that the word of God came to
Nathan, saying,
1Ch
17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not
build me a house to dwell in:
1Ch
17:5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up
Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one
tent to another.
1Ch
17:6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a
word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be
shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of
cedar?
1Ch
17:7 Now therefore thus you shall tell my servant David, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the
sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:
1Ch
17:8 and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut
off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name,
like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
1Ch
17:9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more;
neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at
the first,
1Ch
17:10 and as
from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and
I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will
build you a house.
1Ch
17:11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go
to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who
shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1Ch
17:12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne
forever.
1Ch
17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not
take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was
before you;
1Ch
17:14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever;
and his throne shall be established forever.
1Ch
17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this
vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
1Ch
17:16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he
said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have
brought me thus far?
1Ch
17:17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken
of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded
me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
1Ch
17:18 What can David say
yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant?
for you know your servant.
1Ch
17:19 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own
heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all these
great things.
1Ch
17:20 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God
besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1Ch
17:21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom
God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by
great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your
people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
1Ch
17:22 For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and
you, Yahweh, became their God.
1Ch
17:23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your
servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as
you have spoken.
1Ch
17:24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying,
Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the
house of David your servant is established before you.
1Ch
17:25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will
build him a house: therefore has your servant found in
his heart to pray before you.
1Ch
17:26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to
your servant:
1Ch
17:27 and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant,
that it may continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh, have
blessed, and it is blessed forever.
1Ch
18:1 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and
subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the
Philistines.
1Ch
18:2 He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and
brought tribute.
1Ch
18:3 David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to
establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
1Ch
18:4 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand
horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the
chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
1Ch
18:5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of
Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
1Ch
18:6 Then David put garrisons
in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and
brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1Ch
18:7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
1Ch
18:8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very
much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars,
and the vessels of brass.
1Ch
18:9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the
army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
1Ch
18:10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to
bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him;
(for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and he
had with him all manner of vessels of
gold and silver and brass.
1Ch
18:11 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver
and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom,
and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the
Philistines, and from Amalek.
1Ch
18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in
the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
1Ch
18:13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants
to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1Ch
18:14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and
righteousness to all his people.
1Ch
18:15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud was recorder;
1Ch
18:16 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of
Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1Ch
18:17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and
the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
July
19
1
Chronicles 19-21
1Ch
19:1 It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
1Ch
19:2 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash,
because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to
comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the
land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
1Ch
19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Do you
think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters
to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and
to spy out the land?
1Ch
19:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off
their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them
away.
1Ch
19:5 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men
were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed.
The king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then
return.
1Ch
19:6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand
talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
1Ch
19:7 So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king
of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle.
1Ch
19:8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the
mighty men.
1Ch
19:9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at
the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves
in the field.
1Ch
19:10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians.
1Ch
19:11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai
his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of
Ammon.
1Ch
19:12 He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall
help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I
will help you.
1Ch
19:13 Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and
for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
1Ch
19:14 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the
Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
1Ch
19:15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they
likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city.
Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1Ch
19:16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they
sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the
River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their
head.
1Ch
19:17 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and
passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array
against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the
Syrians, they fought with him.
1Ch
19:18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the
Syrians the men of
seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed
Shophach the captain of the army.
1Ch
19:19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by
Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the
Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
1Ch
20:1 It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time
when kings go out to battle,
that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children
of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at
Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
1Ch
20:2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found
it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it;
and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the
city, exceeding much.
1Ch
20:3 He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut them
with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all
the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people
returned to Jerusalem.
1Ch
20:4 It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the
Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons
of the giant; and they were subdued.
1Ch
20:5 There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son
of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of
whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
1Ch
20:6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great
stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six on
each hand, and six on
each foot; and he also was born to the
giant.
1Ch
20:7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
brother killed him.
1Ch
20:8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.
1Ch
21:1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number
Israel.
1Ch
21:2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number
Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know
the sum of them.
1Ch
21:3 Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as
they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants?
Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt
to Israel?
1Ch
21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
1Ch
21:5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David.
All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who
drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who
drew sword.
1Ch
21:6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the
king's word was abominable to Joab.
1Ch
21:7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1Ch
21:8 David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done
this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
1Ch
21:9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
1Ch
21:10 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you
three things: choose one of them, that I may do it to you.
1Ch
21:11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take
your choice:
1Ch
21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed
before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or
else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and
the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel.
Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1Ch
21:13 David said to Gad, I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into
the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not
fall into the hand of man.
1Ch
21:14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of
Israel seventy thousand men.
1Ch
21:15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was
about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and
said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The
angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite.
1Ch
21:16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing
between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched
out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth,
fell on their faces.
1Ch
21:17 David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be
numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but
these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my
God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against
your people, that they should be plagued.
1Ch
21:18 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that
David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1Ch
21:19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name
of Yahweh.
1Ch
21:20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who
were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1Ch
21:21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went
out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face
to the ground.
1Ch
21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing
floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full
price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from
afflicting the people.
1Ch
21:23 Ornan said to David, Take it for yourself, and let my lord the
king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give you
the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood,
and the wheat for the meal offering; I give it all.
1Ch
21:24 King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it
for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours for
Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.
1Ch
21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of
gold by weight.
1Ch
21:26 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered
him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
1Ch
21:27 Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into
its sheath.
1Ch
21:28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in
the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1Ch
21:29 For the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses made in the
wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the
high place at Gibeon.
1Ch
21:30 But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was
afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
Jul. 17
Acts 11
Act
11:1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that
the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Act
11:2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the
circumcision contended with him,
Act
11:3 saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with
them!"
Act
11:4 But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
Act
11:5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw
a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet
let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
Act
11:6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the
four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and
birds of the sky.
Act
11:7 I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'
Act
11:8 But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has
ever entered into my mouth.'
Act
11:9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What
God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'
Act
11:10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into
heaven.
Act
11:11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I
was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
Act
11:12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating.
These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's
house.
Act
11:13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house,
and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is
Peter,
Act
11:14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you
and all your house.'
Act
11:15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on
us at the beginning.
Act
11:16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed
baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
Act
11:17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed
in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"
Act
11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and
glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the
Gentiles repentance to life!"
Act
11:19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression
that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and
Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
Act
11:20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who,
when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the
Lord Jesus.
Act
11:21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number
believed and turned to the Lord.
Act
11:22 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly
which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as
Antioch,
Act
11:23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was
glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should
remain near to the Lord.
Act
11:24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of
faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
Act
11:25 Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
Act
11:26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened,
that for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly,
and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in
Antioch.
Act
11:27 Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to
Antioch.
Act
11:28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit
that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also
happened in the days of Claudius.
Act
11:29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send
relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
Act
11:30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul.
Jul.
18, 19
Acts 12
Act
12:1 Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to
oppress some of the assembly.
Act
12:2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Act
12:3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize
Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
Act
12:4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered
him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to
bring him out to the people after the Passover.
Act
12:5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was
made by the assembly to God for him.
Act
12:6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was
sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front
of the door kept the prison.
Act
12:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light
shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up,
saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his
hands.
Act
12:8 The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your
sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak,
and follow me."
Act
12:9 And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was
being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
Act
12:10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came
to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by
itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the
angel departed from him.
Act
12:11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly
know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the
hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."
Act
12:12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother
of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and
were praying.
Act
12:13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda
came to answer.
Act
12:14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate
for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of
the gate.
Act
12:15 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted
that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."
Act
12:16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw
him, and were amazed.
Act
12:17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared
to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said,
"Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he
departed, and went to another place.
Act
12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers about what had become of Peter.
Act
12:19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he
examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death.
He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Act
12:20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon.
They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the
king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because
their country depended on the king's country for food.
Act
12:21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing,
sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
Act
12:22 The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a
man!"
Act
12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't
give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Act
12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Act
12:25 Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, when they had
fulfilled their service, also taking with them John whose surname was
Mark.
