1 Chronicles 16

New King James Version

The Ark Placed in the Tabernacle^(A)

16 So ^(B)they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. ²And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, ^(C)he blessed the people in the name of the Lord. ³Then he distributed to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins.

⁴And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to ^(D)commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lord God of Israel: ⁵Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, then ^(E)Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals; ⁶Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.

David’s Song of Thanksgiving^(F)

⁷On that day ^(G)David ^(H)first delivered this psalm into the hand of Asaph and his brethren, to thank the Lord:

⁸^(I)Oh, give thanks to the Lord!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples!
⁹Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk of all His wondrous works!
¹⁰Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!
¹¹Seek the Lord and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!
¹²Remember His marvelous works which He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,
¹³O seed of Israel His servant,
You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

¹⁴He is the Lord our God;
His ^(J)judgments are in all the earth.
¹⁵Remember His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
¹⁶The ^(K)covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
¹⁷And ^(L)confirmed it to ^(M)Jacob for a statute,
To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
¹⁸Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your inheritance,”
¹⁹When you were ^(N)few in number,
Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

²⁰When they went from one nation to another,
And from one kingdom to another people,
²¹He permitted no man to do them wrong;
Yes, He ^(O)rebuked kings for their sakes,
²²Saying, ^(P)“Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”

²³^(Q)Sing to the Lord, all the earth;
Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
²⁴Declare His glory among the nations,
His wonders among all peoples.

²⁵For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised;
He is also to be feared above all gods.
²⁶For all the gods ^(R)of the peoples are ^[a]idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.
²⁷Honor and majesty are before Him;
Strength and gladness are in His place.

²⁸Give to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Give to the Lord glory and strength.
²⁹Give to the Lord the glory due His name;
Bring an offering, and come before Him.
Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!
³⁰Tremble before Him, all the earth.
The world also is firmly established,
It shall not be moved.

³¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”
³²Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;
Let the field rejoice, and all that is in it.
³³Then the ^(S)trees of the woods shall rejoice before the Lord,
For He is ^(T)coming to judge the earth.

³⁴^(U)Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
³⁵^(V)And say, “Save us, O God of our salvation;
Gather us together, and deliver us from the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.”

³⁶^(W)Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!

And all ^(X)the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord.

Regular Worship Maintained

³⁷So he left ^(Y)Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister before the ark regularly, as every day’s work ^(Z)required; ³⁸and ^(AA)Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brethren, including Obed-Edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, to be gatekeepers; ³⁹and Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests, ^(AB)before the tabernacle of the Lord ^(AC)at the ^[b]high place that was at Gibeon, ⁴⁰to offer burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of burnt offering regularly ^(AD)morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the Law of the Lord which He commanded Israel; ⁴¹and with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were designated by name, to give thanks to the Lord, ^(AE)because His mercy endures forever; ⁴²and with them Heman and Jeduthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals and the musical instruments of God. Now the sons of Jeduthun were gatekeepers.

⁴³^(AF)Then all the people departed, every man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.

Footnotes

1 Chronicles 16:26 worthless things
1 Chronicles 16:39 Place for pagan worship

Psalm 106

New King James Version

Joy in Forgiveness of Israel’s Sins

106 Praise^[a] the Lord!

^(A)Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.

²Who can ^[b]utter the mighty acts of the Lord?
Who can declare all His praise?
³Blessed are those who keep justice,
And ^[c]he who ^(B)does righteousness at ^(C)all times!

⁴^(D)Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people.
Oh, visit me with Your salvation,
⁵That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with ^[d]Your inheritance.

⁶^(E)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,
^(F)But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
^(G)That He might make His mighty power known.
⁹^(H)He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;
So ^(I)He led them through the depths,
As through the wilderness.
¹⁰He ^(J)saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹^(K)The waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of them left.
¹²^(L)Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.

¹³^(M)They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
¹⁴^(N)But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
¹⁵^(O)And He gave them their request,
But ^(P)sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶When ^(Q)they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the Lord,
¹⁷^(R)The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the faction of Abiram.
¹⁸^(S)A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹^(T)They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.
²⁰Thus ^(U)they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.
²³^(V)Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one ^(W)stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

²⁴Then they despised ^(X)the pleasant land;
They ^(Y)did not believe His word,
²⁵^(Z)But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the Lord.
²⁶^(AA)Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
^(AB)To ^[e]overthrow them in the wilderness,
²⁷^(AC)To ^[f]overthrow their descendants among the ^[g]nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸^(AD)They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices ^[h]made to the dead.
²⁹Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
³⁰^(AE)Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
³¹And that was accounted to him ^(AF)for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

³²^(AG)They angered Him also at the waters of ^[i]strife,
^(AH)So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
³³^(AI)Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴^(AJ)They did not destroy the peoples,
^(AK)Concerning whom the Lord had commanded them,
³⁵^(AL)But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
³⁶^(AM)They served their idols,
^(AN)Which became a snare to them.
³⁷^(AO)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to ^(AP)demons,
³⁸And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And ^(AQ)the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹Thus they ^[j]were ^(AR)defiled by their own works,
And ^(AS)played^[k] the harlot by their own deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore ^(AT)the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred ^(AU)His own inheritance.
⁴¹And ^(AV)He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
⁴³^(AW)Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When ^(AX)He heard their cry;
⁴⁵^(AY)And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And ^(AZ)relented ^(BA)according to the multitude of His mercies.
⁴⁶^(BB)He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.

⁴⁷^(BC)Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.

⁴⁸^(BD)Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, “Amen!”

^[l]Praise the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 106:1 Heb. Hallelujah
Psalm 106:2 express
Psalm 106:3 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. those who do
Psalm 106:5 The people of Your inheritance
Psalm 106:26 make them fall
Psalm 106:27 make their descendants fall also
Psalm 106:27 Gentiles
Psalm 106:28 offered
Psalm 106:32 Or Meribah
Psalm 106:39 became unclean
Psalm 106:39 Were unfaithful
Psalm 106:48 Heb. Hallelujah

Matthew 19

New King James Version

Marriage and Divorce^(A)

19 Now it came to pass, ^(B)when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. ²^(C)And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.

³The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

⁴And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who ^[a]made them at the beginning ^(D)‘made them male and female,’ ⁵and said, ^(E)‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and ^(F)the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

⁷They said to Him, ^(G)“Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”

⁸He said to them, “Moses, because of the ^(H)hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your ^(I)wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹^(J)And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for ^[b]sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

¹⁰His disciples said to Him, ^(K)“If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Jesus Teaches on Celibacy

¹¹But He said to them, ^(L)“All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given: ¹²For there are ^[c]eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and ^(M)there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.”

Jesus Blesses Little Children^(N)

¹³^(O)Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for ^(P)of such is the kingdom of heaven.” ¹⁵And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.

Jesus Counsels the Rich Young Ruler^(Q)

¹⁶^(R)Now behold, one came and said to Him, ^(S)“Good^[d] Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”

¹⁷So He said to him, ^[e]“Why do you call Me good? ^[f]No one is ^(T)good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, ^(U)keep the commandments.”

¹⁸He said to Him, “Which ones?”

Jesus said, ^(V)“‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ¹⁹^(W)‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ^(X)‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

²⁰The young man said to Him, “All these things I have ^(Y)kept ^[g]from my youth. What do I still lack?”

²¹Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, ^(Z)go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

²²But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

With God All Things Are Possible^(AA)

²³Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that ^(AB)it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

²⁵When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

²⁶But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but ^(AC)with God all things are possible.”

²⁷Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, ^(AD)we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?”

²⁸So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, ^(AE)you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹^(AF)And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother ^[h]or wife or children or ^[i]lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. ³⁰^(AG)But many who are first will be last, and the last first.