Bible Reading for June 7 and 8
World English Bible
June
7
1
Samuel 7, 8
1Sa
7:1 The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of
Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.
1Sa
7:2 It happened, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath Jearim,
that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of
Israel lamented after Yahweh.
1Sa
7:3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do
return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods
and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh,
and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.
1Sa
7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the
Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
1Sa
7:5 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray
for you to Yahweh."
1Sa
7:6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it
out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We
have sinned against Yahweh." Samuel judged the children of
Israel in Mizpah.
1Sa
7:7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up
against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were
afraid of the Philistines.
1Sa
7:8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry
to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines."
1Sa
7:9 Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt
offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh
answered him.
1Sa
7:10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great
thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they
were struck down before Israel.
1Sa
7:11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the
Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
1Sa
7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen,
and called its name Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
1Sa
7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within
the border of Israel: and the hand of Yahweh was against the
Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1Sa
7:14 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and its border did
Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.
1Sa
7:15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1Sa
7:16 He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and
Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
1Sa
7:17 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he
judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges
over Israel.
1Sa
8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
1Sa
8:3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre,
and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1Sa
8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
came to Samuel to Ramah;
1Sa
8:5 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't
walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the
nations.
1Sa
8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king
to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:7 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all
that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have
rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
1Sa
8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day
that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they
have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
1Sa
8:9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest
solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who
shall reign over them.
1Sa
8:10 Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of
him a king.
1Sa
8:11 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign
over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his
chariots;
1Sa
8:12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and
captains of fifties; and he will set
some to plow his ground, and to reap his
harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of
his chariots.
1Sa
8:13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks,
and to be bakers.
1Sa
8:14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive
groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1Sa
8:15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and
give to his officers, and to his servants.
1Sa
8:16 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and
your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
1Sa
8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his
servants.
1Sa
8:18 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you
shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
1Sa
8:19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and
they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
1Sa
8:20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may
judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
1Sa
8:21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them
in the ears of Yahweh.
1Sa
8:22 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a
king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Every man go to his city.
June
8
1
Samuel 9, 10
1Sa
9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of
Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the
son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
1Sa
9:2 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and
there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he.
From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
1Sa
9:3 The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said to Saul
his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek
the donkeys.
1Sa
9:4 He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed
through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they
passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and
he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn't find
them.
1Sa
9:5 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant
who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off
caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
1Sa
9:6 He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and
he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to
pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our
journey whereon we go.
1Sa
9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall
we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is
not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
1Sa
9:8 The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my
hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the
man of God, to tell us our way.
1Sa
9:9 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God,
thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now
called a prophet was before called a Seer.)
1Sa
9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went to the city where the man of God was.
1Sa
9:11 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young
maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
1Sa
9:12 They answered them, and said, He is; behold, he
is before you: make haste now, for he is
come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in
the high place:
1Sa
9:13 as soon as you have come into the city, you shall immediately
find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people
will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; and
afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore go up; for at this
time you shall find him.
1Sa
9:14 They went up to the city; and
as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to
go up to the high place.
1Sa
9:15 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came,
saying,
1Sa
9:16 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land
of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people
Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the
Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry is
come to me.
1Sa
9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of
whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people.
1Sa
9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me,
Please, where the seer's house is.
1Sa
9:19 Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me
to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: and in the
morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your
heart.
1Sa
9:20 As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don't set
your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is
desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father's
house?
1Sa
9:21 Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the
tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the
tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?
1Sa
9:22 Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the
guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those who were
invited, who were about thirty persons.
1Sa
9:23 Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of
which I said to you, Set it aside.
1Sa
9:24 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set
it before Saul. Samuel
said, Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before yourself
and eat; because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for
I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
1Sa
9:25 When they had come down from the high place into the city, he
talked with Saul on the housetop.
1Sa
9:26 They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day,
that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may
send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and
Samuel, abroad.
1Sa
9:27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to
Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but
stand still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.
1Sa
10:1 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head,
and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be
prince over his inheritance?
1Sa
10:2 When you have departed from me today, then you shall find two
men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they
will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek have been found;
and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is
anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
1Sa
10:3 Then you shall go on forward from there, and you shall come to
the oak of Tabor; and three men shall meet you there going up to God
to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves
of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
1Sa
10:4 and they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread,
which you shall receive of their hand.
1Sa
10:5 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the
garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you have come
there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down
from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe,
and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
1Sa
10:6 and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily on you, and you
shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.
1Sa
10:7 Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do as
occasion shall serve you; for God is with you.
1Sa
10:8 You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come
down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of
peace offerings: you shall wait seven days, until I come to you, and
show you what you shall do.
1Sa
10:9 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel,
God gave him another heart: and all those signs happened that day.
1Sa
10:10 When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets
met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he
prophesied among them.
1Sa
10:11 It happened, when all who knew him before saw that, behold, he
prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another,
What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the
prophets?
1Sa
10:12 One of the same place answered, Who is their father? Therefore
it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
1Sa
10:13 When he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high
place.
1Sa
10:14 Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Where did you go?
He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they were not
found, we came to Samuel.
1Sa
10:15 Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.
1Sa
10:16 Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys
were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel
spoke, he didn't tell him.
1Sa
10:17 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
1Sa
10:18 and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the
God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the
kingdoms that oppressed you:
1Sa
10:19 but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you
out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to
him, No,
but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before
Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
1Sa
10:20 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe
of Benjamin was taken.
1Sa
10:21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and
the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was
taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.
1Sa
10:22 Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to
come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the
baggage.
1Sa
10:23 They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among the
people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and
upward.
1Sa
10:24 Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh
has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?"
All the people shouted, and said, Long
live the king.
1Sa
10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and
wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the
people away, every man to his house.
1Sa
10:26 Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him
the army, whose hearts God had touched.
1Sa
10:27 But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save
us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his
peace.
Jun. 7,
8
John 12
Joh
12:1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Joh
12:2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was
one of those who sat at the table with him.
Joh
12:3 Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very
precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her
hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
Joh
12:4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who
would betray him, said,
Joh
12:5 "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,
and given to the poor?"
Joh
12:6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but
because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what
was put into it.
Joh
12:7 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for
the day of my burial.
Joh
12:8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always
have me."
Joh
12:9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there,
and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see
Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
Joh
12:10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
Joh
12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and
believed in Jesus.
Joh
12:12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When
they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Joh
12:13 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet
him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
Joh
12:14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is
written,
Joh
12:15 "Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King
comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."
Joh
12:16 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but
when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were
written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
Joh
12:17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called
Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying
about it.
Joh
12:18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because
they heard that he had done this sign.
Joh
12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how
you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
Joh
12:20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to
worship at the feast.
Joh
12:21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of
Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
Joh
12:22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with
Philip, and they told Jesus.
Joh
12:23 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of
Man to be glorified.
Joh
12:24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into
the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it
bears much fruit.
Joh
12:25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in
this world will keep it to eternal life.
Joh
12:26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will
my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Joh
12:27 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save
me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
Joh
12:28 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out
of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify
it again."
Joh
12:29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that
it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
Joh
12:30 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but
for your sakes.
Joh
12:31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this
world will be cast out.
Joh
12:32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people
to myself."
Joh
12:33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should
die.
Joh
12:34 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law
that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must
be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
Joh
12:35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the
light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness
doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where
he is going.
Joh
12:36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may
become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he
departed and hid himself from them.
Joh
12:37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they
didn't believe in him,
Joh
12:38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which
he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed?"
Joh
12:39 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
Joh
12:40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart,
and would turn, and I would heal them."
Joh
12:41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of
him.
Joh
12:42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but
because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they
wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
Joh
12:43 for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
Joh
12:44 Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me,
believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
Joh
12:45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.
Joh
12:46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes
in me may not remain in the darkness.
Joh
12:47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't
judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Joh
12:48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who
judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the
last day.
Joh
12:49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Joh
12:50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things
therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I
speak."
