Bible Reading for July 5 and 6
World English Bible
July
5
2
Kings 1-3
2Ki
1:1 Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2Ki
1:2 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that
was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to
them, Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall
recover of this sickness.
2Ki
1:3 But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go
up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, Is
it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal
Zebub, the god of Ekron?
2Ki
1:4 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, You shall not come down from the
bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die. Elijah departed.
2Ki
1:5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it
that you have returned?
2Ki
1:6 They said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to
us, Go, turn again to the king who sent you, and tell him, Thus says
Yahweh, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to
inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore you shall not come
down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die.
2Ki
1:7 He said to them, What kind of man was he who came up to meet
you, and told you these words?
2Ki
1:8 They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of
leather about his waist. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
2Ki
1:9 Then the king
sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. He went up to him: and
behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He spoke to him, man
of God, the king has said, Come down.
2Ki
1:10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God,
let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire
came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
2Ki
1:11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He
answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.
2Ki
1:12 Elijah answered them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down
from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of God came
down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
2Ki
1:13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The
third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before
Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, please let my
life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your
sight.
2Ki
1:14 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two
former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be
precious in your sight.
2Ki
1:15 The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: don't be
afraid of him. He arose, and went down with him to the king.
2Ki
1:16 He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have sent
messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because
there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore you shall
not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely
die.
2Ki
1:17 So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had
spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
2Ki
1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2Ki
2:1 It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind
into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2Ki
2:2 Elijah said to Elisha, Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me
as far as Bethel. Elisha said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul
lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.
2Ki
2:3 The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came forth to
Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away
your master from your head today?" He said, "Yes, I know
it; hold your peace."
2Ki
2:4 Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has
sent me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives,
I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho.
2Ki
2:5 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to
Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away
your master from your head today?" He answered, "Yes, I
know it. Hold your peace."
2Ki
2:6 Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent
me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your
soul lives, I will not leave you." They two went on.
2Ki
2:7 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over
against them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan.
2Ki
2:8 Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the
waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they two went
over on dry ground.
2Ki
2:9 It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to
Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.
Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.
2Ki
2:10 He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when
I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not
be so."
2Ki
2:11 It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a
chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up
by a whirlwind into heaven.
2Ki
2:12 Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the
chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He saw him no more: and he
took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
2Ki
2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
2Ki
2:14 He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the
waters, and said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?"
When he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there;
and Elisha went over.
2Ki
2:15 When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against
him saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha.
They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2Ki
2:16 They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty
strong men; let them go, please, and seek your master, lest the
Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or
into some valley. He said, You shall not send.
2Ki
2:17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. They
sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but didn't find
him.
2Ki
2:18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said
to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?' "
2Ki
2:19 The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the
situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is
bad, and the land miscarries.
2Ki
2:20 He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein. They brought
it to him.
2Ki
2:21 He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt
therein, and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters;
there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.
2Ki
2:22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of
Elisha which he spoke.
2Ki
2:23 He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the
way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to
him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.
2Ki
2:24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name
of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled
forty-two of those youths.
2Ki
2:25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned
to Samaria.
2Ki
3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and
reigned twelve years.
2Ki
3:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like
his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal
that his father had made.
2Ki
3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.
2Ki
3:4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to
the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one
hundred thousand rams.
2Ki
3:5 But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab
rebelled against the king of Israel.
2Ki
3:6 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all
Israel.
2Ki
3:7 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The
king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against
Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as
your people, my horses as your horses.
2Ki
3:8 He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered, The way of the
wilderness of Edom.
2Ki
3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king
of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there
was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.
2Ki
3:10 The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these
three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
2Ki
3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh,
that we may inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of Israel's
servants answered, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured
water on the hands of Elijah.
2Ki
3:12 Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with him. So the king
of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2Ki
3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with
you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your
mother." The king of Israel said to him, "No; for Yahweh
has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand
of Moab."
2Ki
3:14 Elisha said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I
stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
2Ki
3:15 But now bring me a minstrel." It happened, when the
minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.
2Ki
3:16 He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches.
2Ki
3:17 For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall you
see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you shall
drink, both you and your livestock and your animals.
2Ki
3:18 This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also
deliver the Moabites into your hand.
2Ki
3:19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city,
and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and
mar every good piece of land with stones.
2Ki
3:20 It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the
offering, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the
country was filled with water.
2Ki
3:21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to
fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were
able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.
2Ki
3:22 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the
water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as
blood:
2Ki
3:23 and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed,
and they have struck each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the
spoil.
2Ki
3:24 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up
and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went
forward into the land smiting the Moabites.
2Ki
3:25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they
cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the
springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir
Hareseth only
they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about
it, and struck it.
2Ki
3:26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for
him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break
through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
2Ki
3:27 Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his
place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was
great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned
to their own land.
July
6
2
Kings 4-6
2Ki
4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you
know that your servant feared Yahweh: and the creditor has come to
take for himself my two children to be slaves.
2Ki
4:2 Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what do
you have in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the
house, except a pot of oil.
2Ki
4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors,
even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.
2Ki
4:4 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and
pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that
which is full.
2Ki
4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons;
they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.
2Ki
4:6 It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her
son, Bring me another container. He said to her, There isn't another
container. The oil stopped flowing.
2Ki
4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the
oil, and pay your debt, and you and your sons live on the rest.
2Ki
4:8 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was
a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that
as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
2Ki
4:9 She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy
man of God, that passes by us continually.
2Ki
4:10 Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us
set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand:
and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.
2Ki
4:11 It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the
chamber and lay there.
2Ki
4:12 He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he
had called her, she stood before him.
2Ki
4:13 He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have cared for us
with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you like to be
spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army? She answered,
I dwell among my own people.
2Ki
4:14 He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, Most
certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.
2Ki
4:15 He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the
door.
2Ki
4:16 He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall
embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to
your handmaid.
2Ki
4:17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the
time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
2Ki
4:18 When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to
his father to the reapers.
2Ki
4:19 He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his
servant, Carry him to his mother.
2Ki
4:20 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on
her knees until noon, and then died.
2Ki
4:21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut
the door on
him, and went out.
2Ki
4:22 She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the
servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God,
and come again.
2Ki
4:23 He said, Why would you want go to him today? it is neither new
moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.
2Ki
4:24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and
go forward; don't slacken me the riding, unless I ask you to.
2Ki
4:25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It
happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to
Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:
2Ki
4:26 please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you?
is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? She
answered, It is well.
2Ki
4:27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of
his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God
said, Let her alone: for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh
has hid it from me, and has not told me.
2Ki
4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do
not deceive me?
2Ki
4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt,
take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man,
don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again.
Then lay my staff on the face of the child."
2Ki
4:30 The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul
lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her.
2Ki
4:31 Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of
the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he
returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child has not
awakened.
2Ki
4:32 When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was
dead, and laid on his bed.
2Ki
4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and
prayed to Yahweh.
2Ki
4:34 He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his
mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands: and he
stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.
2Ki
4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth;
and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed
seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
2Ki
4:36 He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called
her. When she was come in to him, he said, Take up your son.
2Ki
4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to
the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
2Ki
4:38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land;
and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to
his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the
prophets.
2Ki
4:39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild
vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred
them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.
2Ki
4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they
were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, man of God,
there is death in the pot. They could not eat of it.
2Ki
4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. He cast it into the pot; and he
said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. There was no harm
in the pot.
2Ki
4:42 There came a man from Baal Shalishah, and brought the man of
God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh
ears of grain in his sack. He said, Give to the people, that they may
eat.
2Ki
4:43 His servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men?
But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says
Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave of it.
2Ki
4:44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it,
according to the word of Yahweh.
2Ki
5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had
given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but
he was a leper.
2Ki
5:2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive
out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's
wife.
2Ki
5:3 She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the
prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
2Ki
5:4 One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the
maiden who is of the land of Israel.
2Ki
5:5 The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the
king of Israel. He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver,
and six thousand pieces
of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
2Ki
5:6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when
this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to
you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.
2Ki
5:7 It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that
he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive,
that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but
consider, please, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
2Ki
5:8 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of
Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why
have you torn your clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know
that there is a prophet in Israel.
2Ki
5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood
at the door of the house of Elisha.
2Ki
5:10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the
Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you
shall be clean.
2Ki
5:11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the
name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover
the leper.
2Ki
5:12 Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than
all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he
turned and went away in a rage.
2Ki
5:13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father,
if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn't you have
done it? how much rather then, when he says to you, Wash, and be
clean?
2Ki
5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself
seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God;
and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was
clean.
2Ki
5:15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and
came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, I know that there
is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please take
a present from your servant.
2Ki
5:16 But he said, As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will
receive none. He urged him to take it; but he refused.
2Ki
5:17 Naaman said, If not, yet, please let there be given to your
servant two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will henceforth
offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to
Yahweh.
2Ki
5:18 In this thing Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes
into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand,
and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the
house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant in this thing.
2Ki
5:19 He said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little
way.
2Ki
5:20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold,
my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his
hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him,
and take somewhat of him.
2Ki
5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running
after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all
well?
2Ki
5:22 He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold,
even now there are come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two
young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of
silver, and two changes of clothing.
2Ki
5:23 Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and
bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of
clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them
before him.
2Ki
5:24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and
bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.
2Ki
5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to
him, Where do you come from, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went
nowhere.
2Ki
5:26 He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man
turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money,
and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep
and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
2Ki
5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cling to you and to your
seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper, as white as
snow.
2Ki
6:1 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place
where we dwell before you is too small for us.
2Ki
6:2 Let us go, please, to the Jordan, and every man a beam from
there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He
answered, Go!
2Ki
6:3 One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants."
He answered, "I will go."
2Ki
6:4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut
down wood.
2Ki
6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water;
and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
2Ki
6:6 The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed
him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the
iron float.
2Ki
6:7 He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took
it.
2Ki
6:8 Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took
counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be
my camp.
2Ki
6:9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that
you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.
2Ki
6:10 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told
him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor
twice.
2Ki
6:11 The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this
thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show
me which of us is for the king of Israel?
2Ki
6:12 One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the
prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you
speak in your bedchamber.
2Ki
6:13 He said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.
It was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
2Ki
6:14 Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great army:
and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
2Ki
6:15 When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone
forth, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city.
His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
2Ki
6:16 He answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are
more than those who are with them.
2Ki
6:17 Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he
may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and
behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around
Elisha.
2Ki
6:18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said,
Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with
blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2Ki
6:19 Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the
city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He
led them to Samaria.
2Ki
6:20 It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha
said, Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. Yahweh
opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst
of Samaria.
2Ki
6:21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father,
shall I strike them? shall I strike them?
2Ki
6:22 He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those
whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set
bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to
their master.
2Ki
6:23 He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten
and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The
bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
2Ki
6:24 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered
all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
2Ki
6:25 There was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged
it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces
of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five
pieces of
silver.
2Ki
6:26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a
woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
2Ki
6:27 He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help
you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?
2Ki
6:28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered,
"This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him
today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
2Ki
6:29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next
day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her
son."
2Ki
6:30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that
he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the
people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.
2Ki
6:31 Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of
Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.
2Ki
6:32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were
sitting with him; and the king
sent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he
said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to
take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door,
and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's
feet behind him?
2Ki
6:33 While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came
down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; why should
I wait for Yahweh any longer?
Jul.
5
Acts 5
Act 5:1
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a
possession,
Act 5:2
and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it,
and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Act 5:3
But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to
lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the
land?
Act 5:4
While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold,
wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing
in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God."
Act 5:5
Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on
all who heard these things.
Act 5:6
The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and
buried him.
Act 5:7
About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened,
came in.
Act 5:8
Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so
much." She said, "Yes, for so much."
Act 5:9
But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together
to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have
buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
Act
5:10 She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men
came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her
by her husband.
Act
5:11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard
these things.
Act
5:12 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done
among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Act
5:13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored
them.
Act
5:14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men
and women.
Act
5:15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them
on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his
shadow might overshadow some of them.
Act
5:16 Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem,
bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean
spirits: and they were all healed.
Act
5:17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him
(which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with
jealousy,
Act
5:18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
Act
5:19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and
brought them out, and said,
Act
5:20 "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the
words of this life."
Act
5:21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about
daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were
with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the
children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Act
5:22 But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They
returned and reported,
Act
5:23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards
standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one
inside!"
Act
5:24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the
chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them
and what might become of this.
Act
5:25 One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in
prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."
Act
5:26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them
without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone
them.
Act
5:27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council.
The high priest questioned them,
Act
5:28 saying, "Didn't we strictly command you not to teach in
this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and
intend to bring this man's blood on us."
Act
5:29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God
rather than men.
Act
5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed,
hanging him on a tree.
Act
5:31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a
Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
Act
5:32 We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy
Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
Act
5:33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and
determined to kill them.
Act
5:34 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a
teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put
the apostles out for a little while.
Act
5:35 He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning
these men, what you are about to do.
Act
5:36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be
somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined
themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were
dispersed, and came to nothing.
Act
5:37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the
enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished,
and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
Act
5:38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone.
For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
Act
5:39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and
you would be found even to be fighting against God!"
Act
5:40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them
and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them
go.
Act
5:41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council,
rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus'
name.
Act
5:42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped
teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
Jul. 6
Acts 6
Act 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying,
a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because
their widows were neglected in the daily service.
Act 6:2
The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It
is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve
tables.
Act 6:3
Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report,
full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this
business.
Act 6:4
But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of
the word."
Act 6:5
These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man
full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor,
Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
Act 6:6
whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid
their hands on them.
Act 6:7
The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied
in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were
obedient to the faith.
Act 6:8
Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs
among the people.
Act 6:9
But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The
Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of
those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
Act
6:10 They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by
which he spoke.
Act
6:11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him
speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
Act
6:12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and
came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
Act
6:13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops
speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
Act
6:14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will
destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered
to us."
Act
6:15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw
his face like it was the face of an angel.
