Bible Reading for June 14 and 15
World English Bible
June
14
1
Samuel 21, 22
1Sa
21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech
came to meet David trembling, and said to him, Why are you alone, and
no man with you?
1Sa
21:2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a
business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the
business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I
have appointed the young men to such and such a place.
1Sa
21:3 Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of
bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
1Sa
21:4 The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread
under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have
kept themselves from women.
1Sa
21:5 David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women
have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the
vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common
journey; how much more then today shall their vessels be holy?
1Sa
21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread;
for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from
before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1Sa
21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best
of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
1Sa
21:8 David said to Ahimelech, Isn't there here under your hand spear
or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me,
because the king's business required haste.
1Sa
21:9 The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you
killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth
behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it; for there is no
other except that here. David said, There is none like that; give it
to me.
1Sa
21:10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to
Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa
21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the
king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in
dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten
thousands?' "
1Sa
21:12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of
Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa
21:13 He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad
in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his
spittle fall down on his beard.
1Sa
21:14 Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is
mad; why then have you brought him to me?
1Sa
21:15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play
the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
1Sa
22:1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of
Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it,
they went down there to him.
1Sa
22:2 Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and
everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he
became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred
men.
1Sa
22:3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of
Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, and
be with you, until I know what God will
do for me.
1Sa
22:4 He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with
him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
1Sa
22:5 The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold;
depart, and go into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came
into the forest of Hereth.
1Sa
22:6 Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with
him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in
Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing
about him.
1Sa
22:7 Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you
Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and
vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of
hundreds,
1Sa
22:8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none
who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse,
and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that
my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at
this day?
1Sa
22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of
Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech
the son of Ahitub.
1Sa
22:10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him food, and gave him
the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
1Sa
22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of
Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and
they came all of them to the king.
1Sa
22:12 Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I
am, my lord.
1Sa
22:13 Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and
the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and
have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie
in wait, as at this day?
1Sa
22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your
servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and
is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
1Sa
22:15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from
me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the
house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less
or more.
1Sa
22:16 The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all
your father's house.
1Sa
22:17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill
the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and
because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the
servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the
priests of Yahweh.
1Sa
22:18 The king said to Doeg, Turn and attack the priests! Doeg the
Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that
day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
1Sa
22:19 Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the
sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle
and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1Sa
22:20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named
Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
1Sa
22:21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests.
1Sa
22:22 David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the
Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned
the death
of all the persons of your father's house.
1Sa
22:23 Stay with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks
your life: for with me you shall be in safeguard.
June
15
1
Samuel 23, 24
1Sa
23:1 They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting
against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.
1Sa
23:2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and
strike these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike the
Philistines, and save Keilah.
1Sa
23:3 David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah:
how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the
Philistines?
1Sa
23:4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him,
and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the
Philistines into your hand.
1Sa
23:5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the
Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a
great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1Sa
23:6 It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David
to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1Sa
23:7 It was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. Saul said, God
has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a
town that has gates and bars.
1Sa
23:8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to
besiege David and his men.
1Sa
23:9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he
said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.
1Sa
23:10 Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has
surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city
for my sake.
1Sa
23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul
come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I
beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.
1Sa
23:12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and
my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will deliver you up.
1Sa
23:13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and
departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told
Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
1Sa
23:14 David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained
in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every
day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.
1Sa
23:15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David
was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
1Sa
23:16 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood,
and strengthened his hand in God.
1Sa
23:17 He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my
father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I
shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows.
1Sa
23:18 They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the
wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
1Sa
23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't
David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the
hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
1Sa
23:20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire
of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up
into the king's hand.
1Sa
23:21 Saul said, You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had
compassion on me.
1Sa
23:22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where
his haunt is, and
who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.
1Sa
23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places
where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I
will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I
will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
1Sa
23:24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his
men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the
desert.
1Sa
23:25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he
went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When
Saul heard that,
he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
1Sa
23:26 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men
on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for
fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to
take them.
1Sa
23:27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come;
for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!"
1Sa
23:28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against
the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.
1Sa
23:29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En
Gedi.
1Sa
24:1 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the
Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the
wilderness of En Gedi.
1Sa
24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and
went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
1Sa
24:3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave;
and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were
abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.
1Sa
24:4 The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh
said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and
you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you. Then David arose,
and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.
1Sa
24:5 It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, because
he had cut off Saul's skirt.
1Sa
24:6 He said to his men, Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing
to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him,
seeing he is Yahweh's anointed.
1Sa
24:7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow
them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on
his way.
1Sa
24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried
after Saul, saying, My lord the king. When Saul looked behind him,
David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.
1Sa
24:9 David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying,
Behold, David seeks your hurt?
1Sa
24:10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had
delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some urged me to
kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand
against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.
1Sa
24:11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe
in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't
kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in
my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my
life to take it.
1Sa
24:12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me
of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
1Sa
24:13 As the proverb of the ancients says, Out of the wicked comes
forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be on you.
1Sa
24:14 Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you
pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
1Sa
24:15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me
and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your
hand.
1Sa
24:16 It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these
words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? Saul
lifted up his voice, and wept.
1Sa
24:17 He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have
done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.
1Sa
24:18 You have declared this day how you have dealt well with me,
because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't
kill me.
1Sa
24:19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away
unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you
have done to me this day.
1Sa
24:20 Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that
the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
1Sa
24:21 Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off
my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my
father's house.
1Sa
24:22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men got
them up to the stronghold.
Jun. 14
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.
Jun.
15
John 16
Joh
16:1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't
be caused to stumble.
Joh
16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes
that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
Joh
16:3 They will do these things because they have not known the
Father, nor me.
Joh
16:4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes,
you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these
things from the beginning, because I was with you.
Joh
16:5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me,
'Where are you going?'
Joh
16:6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled
your heart.
Joh
16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that
I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you.
But if I go, I will send him to you.
Joh
16:8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about
righteousness, and about judgment;
Joh
16:9 about sin, because they don't believe in me;
Joh
16:10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you
won't see me any more;
Joh
16:11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been
judged.
Joh
16:12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear
them now.
Joh
16:13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide
you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever
he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are
coming.
Joh
16:14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and
will declare it to you.
Joh
16:15 All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said
that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
Joh
16:16 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while,
and you will see me."
Joh
16:17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What
is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me,
and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to
the Father?' "
Joh
16:18 They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A
little while?' We don't know what he is saying."
Joh
16:19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he
said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this,
that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a
little while, and you will see me?'
Joh
16:20 Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but
the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will
be turned into joy.
Joh
16:21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time
has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember
the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the
world.
Joh
16:22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and
your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Joh
16:23 "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly
I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will
give it to you.
Joh
16:24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you
will receive, that your joy may be made full.
Joh
16:25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But
the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of
speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
Joh
16:26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you,
that I will pray to the Father for you,
Joh
16:27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me,
and have believed that I came forth from God.
Joh
16:28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world.
Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
Joh
16:29 His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak
plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
Joh
16:30 Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for
anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from
God."
Joh
16:31 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?
Joh
16:32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you
will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me
alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Joh
16:33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace.
In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the
world."
