Bible Reading for June 11 - 13
World English Bible
June
11
1
Samuel 15, 16
1Sa
15:1 Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king
over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice
of the words of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up
out of Egypt.
1Sa
15:3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and
suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
1Sa
15:4 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two
hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1Sa
15:5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
1Sa
15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, go down from among the
Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to
all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the
Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur,
that is before Egypt.
1Sa
15:8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1Sa
15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1Sa
15:10 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
1Sa
15:11 It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is
turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.
Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
1Sa
15:12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told
Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a
monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
1Sa
15:13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you by
Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:14 Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my
ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear?
1Sa
15:15 Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the
people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice
to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1Sa
15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what
Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
1Sa
15:17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight,
weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed
you king over Israel;
1Sa
15:18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they
are consumed.'
1Sa
15:19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the
spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
1Sa
15:20 Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh,
and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the
king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief
of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:22 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
1Sa
15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of
Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.
1Sa
15:24 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed
the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the
people, and obeyed their voice.
1Sa
15:25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh.
1Sa
15:26 Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have
rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being
king over Israel.
1Sa
15:27 As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul
laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
1Sa
15:28 Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from
you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better
than you.
1Sa
15:29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is
not a man, that he should repent.
1Sa
15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before
the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh your God.
1Sa
15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
1Sa
15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring here to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.
1Sa
15:33 Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so your
mother will be childless among women. Samuel cut Agag in pieces
before Yahweh in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
1Sa
15:35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death;
for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul
king over Israel.
1Sa
16:1 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing
I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with
oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have
provided me a king among his sons.
1Sa
16:2 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to
sacrifice to Yahweh.
1Sa
16:3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall
do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
1Sa
16:4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The
elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Do you come
peaceably?
1Sa
16:5 He said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified
Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
1Sa
16:6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and
said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
1Sa
16:7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on
the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Yahweh
sees not as man sees; for man looks at
the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
1Sa
16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He
said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
1Sa
16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh
chosen this.
1Sa
16:10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel
said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
1Sa
16:11 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said,
There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep.
Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down
until he come here.
1Sa
16:12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint
him; for this is he.
1Sa
16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on
David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1Sa
16:14 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
1Sa
16:15 Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God
troubles you.
1Sa
16:16 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to
seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall
happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play
with his hand, and you shall be well.
1Sa
16:17 Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play
well, and bring him to me.
1Sa
16:18 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have
seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and
a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a
comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
1Sa
16:19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me
David your son, who is with the sheep.
1Sa
16:20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine,
and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
1Sa
16:21 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him
greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
1Sa
16:22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me;
for he has found favor in my sight.
1Sa
16:23 It happened, when the evil
spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played
with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil
spirit departed from him.
June
12
1
Samuel 17, 18
1Sa
17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle;
and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and
encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
1Sa
17:2 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped
in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the
Philistines.
1Sa
17:3 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and
Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a
valley between them.
1Sa
17:4 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1Sa
17:5 He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a
coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of
brass.
1Sa
17:6 He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass
between his shoulders.
1Sa
17:7 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his
spear's head weighed
six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.
1Sa
17:8 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them,
Why have you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a
Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose a man for you, and let
him come down to me.
1Sa
17:9 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be
your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you
will be our servants, and serve us.
1Sa
17:10 The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
give me a man, that we may fight together.
1Sa
17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine,
they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
1Sa
17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah,
whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old
man in the days of Saul, stricken in
years among men.
1Sa
17:13 The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the
battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were
Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
1Sa
17:14 David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.
1Sa
17:15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's
sheep at Bethlehem.
1Sa
17:16 The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented
himself forty days.
1Sa
17:17 Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an
ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them
quickly to the camp to your brothers;
1Sa
17:18 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand,
and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge.
1Sa
17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the
valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
1Sa
17:20 David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a
keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came
to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going forth to the
fight shouted for the battle.
1Sa
17:21 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army
against army.
1Sa
17:22 David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the
baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
1Sa
17:23 As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion,
the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the
Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard
them.
1Sa
17:24 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
and were sore afraid.
1Sa
17:25 The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come up?
surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man
who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will
give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
1Sa
17:26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be
done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that
he should defy the armies of the living God?
1Sa
17:27 The people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it
be done to the man who kills him.
1Sa
17:28 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and
Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have you
come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the
wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for
you have come down that you might see the battle.
1Sa
17:29 David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
1Sa
17:30 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the
same manner: and the people answered him again after the former
manner.
1Sa
17:31 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed
them before Saul; and he sent for him.
1Sa
17:32 David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him;
your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
1Sa
17:33 Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man
of war from his youth.
1Sa
17:34 David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's
sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of
the flock,
1Sa
17:35 I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out of
his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard,
and struck him, and killed him.
1Sa
17:36 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has
defied the armies of the living God.
1Sa
17:37 David said, Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the
lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the
hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be
with you.
1Sa
17:38 Saul clad David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of
brass on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
1Sa
17:39 David girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go;
for he had not proved it. David said to Saul, I can't go with these;
for I have not proved them. David put them off him.
1Sa
17:40 He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth
stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he
had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew
near to the Philistine.
1Sa
17:41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who
bore the shield went before him.
1Sa
17:42 When the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained
him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face.
1Sa
17:43 The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me
with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
1Sa
17:44 The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your
flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.
1Sa
17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the
name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you
have defied.
1Sa
17:46 This day Yahweh will deliver you into my hand; and I will
strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give the dead
bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the
sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israel,
1Sa
17:47 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save
with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give
you into our hand.
1Sa
17:48 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near
to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet
the Philistine.
1Sa
17:49 David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and
slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone
sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
1Sa
17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no
sword in the hand of David.
1Sa
17:51 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his
sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his
head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was
dead, they fled.
1Sa
17:52 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued
the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron.
The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even
to Gath, and to Ekron.
1Sa
17:53 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
1Sa
17:54 David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to
Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
1Sa
17:55 When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said
to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth?
Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell.
1Sa
17:56 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"
1Sa
17:57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner
took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine
in his hand.
1Sa
17:58 Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? David
answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1Sa
18:1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that
the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan
loved him as his own soul.
1Sa
18:2 Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to
his father's house.
1Sa
18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him
as his own soul.
1Sa
18:4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave
it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and
to his sash.
1Sa
18:5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and
behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it
was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of
Saul's servants.
1Sa
18:6 It happened as they came, when David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the
cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with
tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.
1Sa
18:7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul
has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.
1Sa
18:8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he
said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have
ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
1Sa
18:9 Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
1Sa
18:10 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came
mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and
David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear
in his hand;
1Sa
18:11 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David even
to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice.
1Sa
18:12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was
departed from Saul.
1Sa
18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain
over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
1Sa
18:14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was
with him.
1Sa
18:15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in
awe of him.
1Sa
18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came
in before them.
1Sa
18:17 Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will
I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's
battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand
of the Philistines be on him.
1Sa
18:18 David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or
my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the
king?
1Sa
18:19 But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter,
should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the
Meholathite as wife.
1Sa
18:20 Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and
the thing pleased him.
1Sa
18:21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to
him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son-in-law a
second time.
1Sa
18:22 Saul commanded his servants, saying,
Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in
you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's
son-in-law.
1Sa
18:23 Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David
said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law,
seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
1Sa
18:24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke
David.
1Sa
18:25 Saul said, Thus you shall tell David, The king desires no
dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged
of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the
hand of the Philistines.
1Sa
18:26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David
well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;
1Sa
18:27 and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the
Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and
they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the
king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
1Sa
18:28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal,
Saul's daughter, loved him.
1Sa
18:29 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's
enemy continually.
1Sa
18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it
happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself
more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much
set by.
June
13
1
Samuel 19, 20
1Sa
19:1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in
David.
1Sa
19:2 Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you:
now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live
in a secret place, and hide yourself:
1Sa
19:3 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where
you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see
anything, I will tell you.
1Sa
19:4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to
him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have
been very good toward you:
1Sa
19:5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and
Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and
rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David
without a cause?
1Sa
19:6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As
Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.
1Sa
19:7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those
things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence,
as before.
1Sa
19:8 There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled
before him.
1Sa
19:9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house
with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
1Sa
19:10 Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear;
but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear
into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
1Sa
19:11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to
kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying,
If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
1Sa
19:12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and
fled, and escaped.
1Sa
19:13 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a
pillow of goats' hair
at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
1Sa
19:14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
1Sa
19:15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to
me in the bed, that I may kill him.
1Sa
19:16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the
bed, with the pillow of goats' hair
at its head.
1Sa
19:17 Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my
enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me,
Let me go; why should I kill you?
1Sa
19:18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and
told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived
in Naioth.
1Sa
19:19 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:20 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over
them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:21 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also
prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is
in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said,
Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came
on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth
in Ramah.
1Sa
19:24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied
before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1Sa
20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" and
"What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
1Sa
20:2 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold,
my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses
it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not
so."
1Sa
20:3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well
that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let
Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives,
and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
1Sa
20:4 Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever your soul desires,
I will even do it for you."
1Sa
20:5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon,
and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I
may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
1Sa
20:6 If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the
yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'
1Sa
20:7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if
he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
1Sa
20:8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought
your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in
me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your
father?"
1Sa
20:9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all
know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then
wouldn't I tell you that?"
1Sa
20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if
perchance your father answers you roughly?"
1Sa
20:11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the
field." They both went out into the field.
1Sa
20:12 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, be
witness: when I have sounded my father
about this time tomorrow, or
the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not
then send to you, and disclose it to you?
1Sa
20:13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my
father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you
away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has
been with my father.
1Sa
20:14 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving
kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
1Sa
20:15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house
forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David
everyone from the surface of the earth."
1Sa
20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,
Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
1Sa
20:17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had
to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1Sa
20:18 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you
will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
1Sa
20:19 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly,
and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business
was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
1Sa
20:20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a
mark.
1Sa
20:21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying,
Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on
this side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and
no hurt, as Yahweh lives.
1Sa
20:22 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond
you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
1Sa
20:23 As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold,
Yahweh is between you and me forever.
1Sa
20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
come, the king sat him down to eat food.
1Sa
20:25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat
by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but
David's place was empty.
1Sa
20:26 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he
thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is
not clean.
1Sa
20:27 It happened on the next day after the new moon, which
was the second day,
that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why
doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
1Sa
20:28 Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to
go to Bethlehem:
1Sa
20:29 and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice
in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me to
be there: and now, if I have found favor
in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers.
Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
1Sa
20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to
him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you
have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of
your mother's nakedness?
1Sa
20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall
not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring
him to me, for he shall surely die.
1Sa
20:32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why
should he be put to death? What has he done?"
1Sa
20:33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan
knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
1Sa
20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no
food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David,
because his father had done him shame.
1Sa
20:35 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the
field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
1Sa
20:36 He said to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. As
the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1Sa
20:37 When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan
had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow
beyond you?
1Sa
20:38 Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay!
Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
1Sa
20:39 But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew
the matter.
1Sa
20:40 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go,
carry them to the city.
1Sa
20:41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of a
place toward the South, and fell on his
face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed
one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
1Sa
20:42 Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn
both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be between me
and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. He arose and
departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
Jun.
11, 12
John 14
Joh
14:1 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe
also in me.
Joh
14:2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would
have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
Joh
14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
Joh
14:4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
Joh
14:5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are
going. How can we know the way?"
Joh
14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Joh
14:7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From
now on, you know him, and have seen him."
Joh
14:8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that
will be enough for us."
Joh
14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time,
and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the
Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
Joh
14:10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the
Father who lives in me does his works.
Joh
14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or
else believe me for the very works' sake.
Joh
14:12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works
that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these,
because I am going to my Father.
Joh
14:13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh
14:14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Joh
14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
Joh
14:16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor, that he may be with you forever,-
Joh
14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it
doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with
you, and will be in you.
Joh
14:18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
Joh
14:19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you
will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Joh
14:20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in
me, and I in you.
Joh
14:21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is
one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I
will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
Joh
14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has
happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the
world?"
Joh
14:23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my
word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our
home with him.
Joh
14:24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which
you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
Joh
14:25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
Joh
14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all
that I said to you.
Joh
14:27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the
world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither
let it be fearful.
Joh
14:28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If
you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to
my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
Joh
14:29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it
happens, you may believe.
Joh
14:30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the
world comes, and he has nothing in me.
Joh
14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the
Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
Jun.
13
John 15
Joh
15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Joh
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away.
Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more
fruit.
Joh
15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have
spoken to you.
Joh
15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by
itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you
remain in me.
Joh
15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and
I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do
nothing.
Joh
15:6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch,
and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and
they are burned.
Joh
15:7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask
whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Joh
15:8 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples.
Joh
15:9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain
in my love.
Joh
15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even
as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
Joh
15:11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in
you, and that your joy may be made full.
Joh
15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even
as I have loved you.
Joh
15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his
life for his friends.
Joh
15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Joh
15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know
what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything
that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
Joh
15:16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that
you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that
whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to
you.
Joh
15:17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one
another.
Joh
15:18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before
it hated you.
Joh
15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But
because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.
Joh
15:20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not
greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also
persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
Joh
15:21 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake,
because they don't know him who sent me.
Joh
15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had
sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Joh
15:23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
Joh
15:24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did,
they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated
both me and my Father.
Joh
15:25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was
written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
Joh
15:26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you
from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father,
he will testify about me.
Joh
15:27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the
beginning.
