Bible Reading for July 16 - 18
World English Bible
July
16
1
Chronicles 10-12
1Ch
10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount
Gilboa.
1Ch
10:2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons;
and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua,
the sons of Saul.
1Ch
10:3 The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook
him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
1Ch
10:4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust
me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But
his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul
took his sword, and fell on it.
1Ch
10:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell
on his sword, and died.
1Ch
10:6 So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died
together.
1Ch
10:7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they
fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their
cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
1Ch
10:8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip
the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
1Ch
10:9 They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent
into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to
their idols, and to the people.
1Ch
10:10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened
his head in the house of Dagon.
1Ch
10:11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done
to Saul,
1Ch
10:12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and
the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their
bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1Ch
10:13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against
Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also
because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire
thereby,
1Ch
10:14 and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and
turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
1Ch
11:1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying,
Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
1Ch
11:2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out
and brought in Israel: and Yahweh your God said to you, You shall be
shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people
Israel.
1Ch
11:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and
David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they
anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by
Samuel.
1Ch
11:4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus);
and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
1Ch
11:5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in
here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the
city of David.
1Ch
11:6 David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief
and captain. Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made
chief.
1Ch
11:7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the
city of David.
1Ch
11:8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab
repaired the rest of the city.
1Ch
11:9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with
him.
1Ch
11:10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who
showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all
Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning
Israel.
1Ch
11:11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had:
Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he
lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one
time.
1Ch
11:12 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was
one of the three mighty men.
1Ch
11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were
gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of
barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
1Ch
11:14 They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and
killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
1Ch
11:15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David,
into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were
encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1Ch
11:16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
1Ch
11:17 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to
drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
1Ch
11:18 The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew
water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took
it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but
poured it out to Yahweh,
1Ch
11:19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I
drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?
for with the jeopardy of
their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These
things did the three mighty men.
1Ch
11:20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for
he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had
a name among the three.
1Ch
11:21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made
their captain: however he didn't attain to the first
three.
1Ch
11:22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of
Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons
of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and
killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
1Ch
11:23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits
high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam;
and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of
the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
1Ch
11:24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name
among the three mighty men.
1Ch
11:25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't
attain to the first
three: and David set him over his guard.
1Ch
11:26 Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab,
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1Ch
11:27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1Ch
11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
1Ch
11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1Ch
11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
Netophathite,
1Ch
11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1Ch
11:32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
1Ch
11:33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
1Ch
11:34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee
the Hararite,
1Ch
11:35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
1Ch
11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
1Ch
11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1Ch
11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
1Ch
11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of
Joab the son of Zeruiah,
1Ch
11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1Ch
11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1Ch
11:42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the
Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1Ch
11:43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
1Ch
11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the
Aroerite,
1Ch
11:45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1Ch
11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of
Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
1Ch
11:47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
1Ch
12:1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet
kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were
among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
1Ch
12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand
and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow:
they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.
1Ch
12:3 The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the
Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah,
and Jehu the Anathothite,
1Ch
12:4 and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and
over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad
the Gederathite,
1Ch
12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and
Shephatiah the Haruphite,
1Ch
12:6 Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam,
the Korahites,
1Ch
12:7 and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
1Ch
12:8 Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the
stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for
war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the
faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;
1Ch
12:9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
1Ch
12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
1Ch
12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
1Ch
12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
1Ch
12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
1Ch
12:14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was
least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
1Ch
12:15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month,
when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them
of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
1Ch
12:16 There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
stronghold to David.
1Ch
12:17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come
peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you
be come to betray me to my adversaries,
seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look
thereon, and rebuke it.
1Ch
12:18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty,
and he said,
"We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse: peace,
peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps
you." Then David received them, and made them captains of the
band.
1Ch
12:19 Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, when he came
with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they didn't help
them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after
consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Saul to the
jeopardy of our heads.
1Ch
12:20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah,
and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and
Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
1Ch
12:21 They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were
all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
1Ch
12:22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there
was a great army, like the army of God.
1Ch
12:23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for
war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him,
according to the word of Yahweh.
1Ch
12:24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six
thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
1Ch
12:25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war,
seven thousand and one hundred.
1Ch
12:26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
1Ch
12:27 Jehoiada was the leader of the
house of Aaron; and with him were three
thousand and seven hundred,
1Ch
12:28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's
house twenty-two captains.
1Ch
12:29 Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three
thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their
allegiance to the house of Saul.
1Ch
12:30 Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred,
mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
1Ch
12:31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were
mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
1Ch
12:32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the
times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two
hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.
1Ch
12:33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could
set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty
thousand, and who could order the battle
array, and were not of double heart.
1Ch
12:34 Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield
and spear thirty-seven thousand.
1Ch
12:35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight
thousand six hundred.
1Ch
12:36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could
set the battle in array, forty thousand.
1Ch
12:37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of
instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
1Ch
12:38 All these being men of war, who could order the battle array,
came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all
Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make
David king.
1Ch
12:39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking;
for their brothers had made preparation for them.
1Ch
12:40 Moreover those who were near to them, even
as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on
donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal,
cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and
cattle, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
July
17
1
Chronicles 13-15
1Ch
13:1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds,
even with every leader.
1Ch
13:2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seems good to
you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to
our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the
priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they
may gather themselves to us;
1Ch
13:3 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we didn't
seek it in the days of Saul.
1Ch
13:4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was
right in the eyes of all the people.
1Ch
13:5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the
brook of Egypt even to the entrance of
Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
1Ch
13:6 David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that
is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to
Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh that sits above
the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
1Ch
13:7 They carried the ark of God on a new cart, and
brought it out of the house of Abinadab:
and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
1Ch
13:8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might,
even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and
with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1Ch
13:9 When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth
his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1Ch
13:10 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck
him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died
before God.
1Ch
13:11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzza;
and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
1Ch
13:12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring
the ark of God home to me?
1Ch
13:13 So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David,
but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
1Ch
13:14 The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his
house three months: and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and
all that he had.
1Ch
14:1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
1Ch
14:2 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over
Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's
sake.
1Ch
14:3 David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father
of more sons and daughters.
1Ch
14:4 These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem:
Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
1Ch
14:5 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,
1Ch
14:6 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
1Ch
14:7 and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
1Ch
14:8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over
all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David
heard of it, and went out against them.
1Ch
14:9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of
Rephaim.
1Ch
14:10 David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the
Philistines? and will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to
him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.
1Ch
14:11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there;
and David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breach
of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
1Ch
14:12 They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and
they were burned with fire.
1Ch
14:13 The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.
1Ch
14:14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, You shall
not go up after them: turn away from them, and come on them over
against the mulberry trees.
1Ch
14:15 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops
of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God
is gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.
1Ch
14:16 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of
the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
1Ch
14:17 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought
the fear of him on all nations.
1Ch
15:1 David
made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the
ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1Ch
15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the
Levites: for them has Yahweh chosen to carry the ark of God, and to
minister to him forever.
1Ch
15:3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of
Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it.
1Ch
15:4 David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
1Ch
15:5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one
hundred twenty;
1Ch
15:6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two
hundred twenty;
1Ch
15:7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one
hundred thirty;
1Ch
15:8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers
two hundred;
1Ch
15:9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers
eighty;
1Ch
15:10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers
one hundred twelve.
1Ch
15:11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
Amminadab,
1Ch
15:12 and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' houses
of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that
you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the
place that I have prepared for it.
1Ch
15:13 For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God
made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the
ordinance.
1Ch
15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring
up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1Ch
15:15 The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their
shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according to the
word of Yahweh.
1Ch
15:16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their
brothers the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments
and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with
joy.
1Ch
15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his
brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their
brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1Ch
15:18 and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah,
Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and
Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah,
and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
1Ch
15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were
appointed with cymbals of brass to sound
aloud;
1Ch
15:20 and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and
Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments
set to Alamoth;
1Ch
15:21 and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom,
and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre,
to lead.
1Ch
15:22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he
instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
1Ch
15:23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1Ch
15:24 Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and
Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the
trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were
doorkeepers for the ark.
1Ch
15:25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over
thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of
the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
1Ch
15:26 It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven
rams.
1Ch
15:27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the
Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master
of the song with
the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.
1Ch
15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh
with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and
with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
1Ch
15:29 It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the
city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the
window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him
in her heart.
July
18
1
Chronicles 16-18
1Ch
16:1 They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the
tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings before God.
1Ch
16:2 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.
1Ch
16:3 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every
one a loaf of bread, and a portion of
flesh, and a cake of raisins.
1Ch
16:4 He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark
of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God
of Israel:
1Ch
16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and
Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and
Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
1Ch
16:6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually,
before the ark of the covenant of God.
1Ch
16:7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh,
by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
1Ch
16:8 Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make his doings
known among the peoples.
1Ch
16:9 Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous
works.
1Ch
16:10 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh
rejoice.
1Ch
16:11 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
1Ch
16:12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth,
1Ch
16:13 you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his
chosen ones.
1Ch
16:14 He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
1Ch
16:15 Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to
a thousand generations,
1Ch
16:16 the covenant
which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
1Ch
16:17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel
for an everlasting covenant,
1Ch
16:18 saying, I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your
inheritance,
1Ch
16:19 when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and
foreigners were in it.
1Ch
16:20 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to
another people.
1Ch
16:21 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for
their sakes,
1Ch
16:22 saying,
Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm.
1Ch
16:23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day
to day.
1Ch
16:24 Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works
among all the peoples.
1Ch
16:25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to
be feared above all gods.
1Ch
16:26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the
heavens.
1Ch
16:27 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in
his place.
1Ch
16:28 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to
Yahweh glory and strength!
1Ch
16:29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an
offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.
1Ch
16:30 Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is
established that it can't be moved.
1Ch
16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them
say among the nations, Yahweh reigns.
1Ch
16:32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and
all that is therein!
1Ch
16:33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
for he comes to judge the earth.
1Ch
16:34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever.
1Ch
16:35 Say, Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and
deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to
triumph in your praise.
1Ch
16:36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to
everlasting. All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
1Ch
16:37 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,
Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as
every day's work required;
1Ch
16:38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also
the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
1Ch
16:39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the
tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1Ch
16:40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt
offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that
is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel;
1Ch
16:41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were
chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because
his loving kindness endures forever;
1Ch
16:42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with
trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with
instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at
the gate.
1Ch
16:43 All the people departed every man to his house: and David
returned to bless his house.
1Ch
17:1 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to
Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh dwells
under curtains.
1Ch
17:2 Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is
with you.
1Ch
17:3 It happened the same night, that the word of God came to
Nathan, saying,
1Ch
17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not
build me a house to dwell in:
1Ch
17:5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up
Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one
tent to another.
1Ch
17:6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a
word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be
shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of
cedar?
1Ch
17:7 Now therefore thus you shall tell my servant David, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the
sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:
1Ch
17:8 and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut
off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name,
like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
1Ch
17:9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more;
neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at
the first,
1Ch
17:10 and as
from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and
I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will
build you a house.
1Ch
17:11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go
to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who
shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1Ch
17:12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne
forever.
1Ch
17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not
take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was
before you;
1Ch
17:14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever;
and his throne shall be established forever.
1Ch
17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this
vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
1Ch
17:16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he
said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have
brought me thus far?
1Ch
17:17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken
of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded
me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
1Ch
17:18 What can David say
yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant?
for you know your servant.
1Ch
17:19 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own
heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all these
great things.
1Ch
17:20 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God
besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1Ch
17:21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom
God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by
great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your
people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
1Ch
17:22 For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and
you, Yahweh, became their God.
1Ch
17:23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your
servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as
you have spoken.
1Ch
17:24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying,
Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the
house of David your servant is established before you.
1Ch
17:25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will
build him a house: therefore has your servant found in
his heart to pray before you.
1Ch
17:26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to
your servant:
1Ch
17:27 and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant,
that it may continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh, have
blessed, and it is blessed forever.
1Ch
18:1 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and
subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the
Philistines.
1Ch
18:2 He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and
brought tribute.
1Ch
18:3 David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to
establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
1Ch
18:4 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand
horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the
chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
1Ch
18:5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of
Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
1Ch
18:6 Then David put garrisons
in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and
brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1Ch
18:7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
1Ch
18:8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very
much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars,
and the vessels of brass.
1Ch
18:9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the
army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
1Ch
18:10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to
bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him;
(for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and he
had with him all manner of vessels of
gold and silver and brass.
1Ch
18:11 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver
and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom,
and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the
Philistines, and from Amalek.
1Ch
18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in
the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
1Ch
18:13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants
to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1Ch
18:14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and
righteousness to all his people.
1Ch
18:15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud was recorder;
1Ch
18:16 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of
Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1Ch
18:17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and
the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
Jul.
16, 17
Acts 11
Act
11:1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that
the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Act
11:2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the
circumcision contended with him,
Act
11:3 saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with
them!"
Act
11:4 But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
Act
11:5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw
a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet
let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
Act
11:6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the
four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and
birds of the sky.
Act
11:7 I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'
Act
11:8 But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has
ever entered into my mouth.'
Act
11:9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What
God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'
Act
11:10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into
heaven.
Act
11:11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I
was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
Act
11:12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating.
These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's
house.
Act
11:13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house,
and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is
Peter,
Act
11:14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you
and all your house.'
Act
11:15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on
us at the beginning.
Act
11:16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed
baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
Act
11:17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed
in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"
Act
11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and
glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the
Gentiles repentance to life!"
Act
11:19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression
that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and
Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
Act
11:20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who,
when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the
Lord Jesus.
Act
11:21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number
believed and turned to the Lord.
Act
11:22 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly
which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as
Antioch,
Act
11:23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was
glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should
remain near to the Lord.
Act
11:24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of
faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
Act
11:25 Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
Act
11:26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened,
that for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly,
and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in
Antioch.
Act
11:27 Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to
Antioch.
Act
11:28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit
that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also
happened in the days of Claudius.
Act
11:29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send
relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
Act
11:30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul.
Jul.
18
Acts 12
Act
12:1 Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to
oppress some of the assembly.
Act
12:2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Act
12:3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize
Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
Act
12:4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered
him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to
bring him out to the people after the Passover.
Act
12:5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was
made by the assembly to God for him.
Act
12:6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was
sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front
of the door kept the prison.
Act
12:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light
shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up,
saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his
hands.
Act
12:8 The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your
sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak,
and follow me."
Act
12:9 And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was
being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
Act
12:10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came
to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by
itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the
angel departed from him.
Act
12:11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly
know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the
hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."
Act
12:12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother
of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and
were praying.
Act
12:13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda
came to answer.
Act
12:14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate
for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of
the gate.
Act
12:15 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted
that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."
Act
12:16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw
him, and were amazed.
Act
12:17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared
to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said,
"Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he
departed, and went to another place.
Act
12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers about what had become of Peter.
Act
12:19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he
examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death.
He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Act
12:20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon.
They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the
king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because
their country depended on the king's country for food.
Act
12:21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing,
sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
Act
12:22 The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a
man!"
Act
12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't
give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Act
12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Act
12:25 Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, when they had
fulfilled their service, also taking with them John whose surname was
Mark.
