Bible Reading for June 16 and 17
World English Bible
June
16
1
Samuel 25, 26
1Sa
25:1 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and
lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and
went down to the wilderness of Paran.
1Sa
25:2 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and
the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a
thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
1Sa
25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife
Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful
face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of
the house of Caleb.
1Sa
25:4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his
sheep.
1Sa
25:5 David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go
up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
1Sa
25:6 and thus you shell tell him who lives in
prosperity, Peace be to you, and peace
be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
1Sa
25:7 Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have
now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything
missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.
1Sa
25:8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let the
young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please
give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son
David.
1Sa
25:9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to
all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
1Sa
25:10 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and
who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants who break away from
their masters these days.
1Sa
25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I
have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know
where they come from?
1Sa
25:12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and
came and told him according to all these words.
1Sa
25:13 David said to his men, Every man put on his sword! Every man
put on his sword; and David also put on his sword: and there went up
after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the
baggage.
1Sa
25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying,
Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our
master; and he railed at them.
1Sa
25:15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt,
neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we
were in the fields:
1Sa
25:16 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while
we were with them keeping the sheep.
1Sa
25:17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is
determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is
such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him.
1Sa
25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two
bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of
parched grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred
cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
1Sa
25:19 She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come
after you. But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.
1Sa
25:20 It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the
covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down
toward her; and she met them.
1Sa
25:21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this
fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that
pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good.
1Sa
25:22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave
of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who
urinates on a wall.
1Sa
25:23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her
donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the
ground.
1Sa
25:24 She fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be the
iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the
words of your handmaid.
1Sa
25:25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even
Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is
with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord,
whom you sent.
1Sa
25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul
lives, seeing Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from
avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies,
and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
1Sa
25:27 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord,
let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
1Sa
25:28 Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh will
certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the
battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.
1Sa
25:29 Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul,
yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with
Yahweh your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling
out, as from the hollow of a sling.
1Sa
25:30 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh shall have done to my lord
according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and
shall have appointed you prince over Israel,
1Sa
25:31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my
lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord
has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord,
then remember your handmaid.
1Sa
25:32 David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
who sent you this day to meet me:
1Sa
25:33 and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have
kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with
my own hand.
1Sa
25:34 For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has
withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet
me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning
light so much as one who urinates on a wall.
1Sa
25:35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him:
and he said to her, Go up in peace to your house; behold, I have
listened to your voice, and have accepted your person.
1Sa
25:36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his
house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within
him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or
more, until the morning light.
1Sa
25:37 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of
Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within
him, and he became as a stone.
1Sa
25:38 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so
that he died.
1Sa
25:39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be
Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of
Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evildoing of
Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. David sent and spoke
concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.
1Sa
25:40 When the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel,
they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to
him as wife.
1Sa
25:41 She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and
said, Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the
servants of my lord.
1Sa
25:42 Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five
ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of
David, and became his wife.
1Sa
25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of
them his wives.
1Sa
25:44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti
the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
1Sa
26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide
himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?
1Sa
26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph,
having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in
the wilderness of Ziph.
1Sa
26:3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the
desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw
that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
1Sa
26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was
come of a certainty.
1Sa
26:5 David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and
David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the
captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and
the people were encamped around him.
1Sa
26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down
with me to Saul to the camp? Abishai said, I will go down with you.
1Sa
26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold,
Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear
stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around
him.
1Sa
26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy
into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike him with
the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the
second time.
1Sa
26:9 David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth
his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?
1Sa
26:10 David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his
day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
1Sa
26:11 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's
anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the
jar of water, and let us go.
1Sa
26:12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head;
and they got them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did
any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh
was fallen on them.
1Sa
26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top
of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;
1Sa
26:14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner,
saying, Don't you answer, Abner? Then Abner answered, Who are you who
cries to the king?
1Sa
26:15 David said to Abner, Aren't you a valiant
man? and who is like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch
over your lord, the king? for there came one of the people in to
destroy the king your lord.
1Sa
26:16 This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you
are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord,
Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of
water that was at his head.
1Sa
26:17 Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son
David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
1Sa
26:18 He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what
have I done? or what evil is in my hand?
1Sa
26:19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of
his servant. If it is so Yahweh that has stirred you up against me,
let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed
be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that I
shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other
gods.
1Sa
26:20 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from
the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a
flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.
1Sa
26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I
will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes
this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
1Sa
26:22 David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the
young men come over and get it.
1Sa
26:23 Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his
faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I
wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.
1Sa
26:24 Behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, so
let my life be much set by in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver
me out of all oppression.
1Sa
26:25 Then Saul said to David, You are blessed, my son David: you
shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. So David went his
way, and Saul returned to his place.
June
17
1Samuel
27, 28
1Sa
27:1 David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand
of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape
into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to
seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out
of his hand.
1Sa
27:2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who
were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1Sa
27:3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with
his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
1Sa
27:4 It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no
more again for him.
1Sa
27:5 David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes,
let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I
may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city
with you?
1Sa
27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to
the kings of Judah to this day.
1Sa
27:7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the
Philistines was a full year and four months.
1Sa
27:8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites,
and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations
were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur,
even to the land of Egypt.
1Sa
27:9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive,
and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the
camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.
1Sa
27:10 Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? David
said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the
Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
1Sa
27:11 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to
Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and
so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of
the Philistines.
1Sa
27:12 Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel
utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.
1Sa
28:1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their
armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to
David, Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you
and your men.
1Sa
28:2 David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your
servant will do. Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you
keeper of my head for ever.
1Sa
28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and
buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those
who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
1Sa
28:4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and
encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they
encamped in Gilboa.
1Sa
28:5 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and
his heart trembled greatly.
1Sa
28:6 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither
by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1Sa
28:7 Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has a
familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. His
servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar
spirit at Endor.
1Sa
28:8 Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he
and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he
said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up
whoever I shall name to you.
1Sa
28:9 The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how
he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out
of the land: why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to
die?
1Sa
28:10 Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, As Yahweh lives, there
shall no punishment happen to you for this thing.
1Sa
28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to you? He said,
Bring me up Samuel.
1Sa
28:12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and
the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? for you
are Saul.
1Sa
28:13 The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see?
The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
1Sa
28:14 He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man comes
up; and he is covered with a robe. Saul perceived that it was Samuel,
and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.
1Sa
28:15 Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me
up? Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war
against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more,
neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that
you may make known to me what I shall do.
1Sa
28:16 Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh has
departed from you, and has become your adversary?
1Sa
28:17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn
the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to
David.
1Sa
28:18 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't
execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this
thing to you this day.
1Sa
28:19 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the
hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with
me: Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the
Philistines.
1Sa
28:20 Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and
was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no
strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the
night.
1Sa
28:21 The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and
said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I
have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which
you spoke to me.
1Sa
28:22 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your
handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that
you may have strength, when you go on your way.
1Sa
28:23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants,
together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their
voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.
1Sa
28:24 The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried,
and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake
unleavened bread of it:
1Sa
28:25 and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and
they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
Jun. 16
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."
Jun.
17
John 17
Joh
17:1 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he
said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your
Son may also glorify you;
Joh
17:2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give
eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Joh
17:3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true
God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Joh
17:4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work
which you have given me to do.
Joh
17:5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which
I had with you before the world existed.
Joh
17:6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out
of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They
have kept your word.
Joh
17:7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me
are from you,
Joh
17:8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and
they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and
they have believed that you sent me.
Joh
17:9 I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom
you have given me, for they are yours.
Joh
17:10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I
am glorified in them.
Joh
17:11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I
am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you
have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
Joh
17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.
Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost,
except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Joh
17:13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world,
that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
Joh
17:14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh
17:15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that
you would keep them from the evil one.
Joh
17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
Joh
17:17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Joh
17:18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into
the world.
Joh
17:19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also
may be sanctified in truth.
Joh
17:20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe
in me through their word,
Joh
17:21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and
I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe
that you sent me.
Joh
17:22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that
they may be one, even as we are one;
Joh
17:23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one;
that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you
loved me.
Joh
17:24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with
me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me,
for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Joh
17:25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you;
and these knew that you sent me.
Joh
17:26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that
the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
