M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

The Ark of God Inhabits a Tent

7 ^(A)Now it happened when the king inhabited his house, and Yahweh had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, ² that the king said to ^(B)Nathan the prophet, “See now, I inhabit ^(C)a house of cedar, but the ark of God ^(D)inhabits tent curtains.” ³ So Nathan said to the king, “^(E)Go, do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you.”

⁴ Now it happened in the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ “Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^(F)Are you the one who would build Me a house to inhabit? ⁶ For ^(G)I have not inhabited a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been going about ^(H)in a tent, even in a ^[a]tabernacle. ^7 (I)Wherever I have gone about with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, ^(J)which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

David’s House Will Be Established Forever

⁸ So now, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “^(K)I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, ^(L)to be ruler over My people Israel. ^9 (M)And I have been with you wherever you have gone and ^(N)have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. ¹⁰ And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and ^(O)will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; ^(P)and the ^[b]unrighteous will not afflict them any more as formerly, ¹¹ even ^(Q)from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and ^(R)I will give you rest from all your enemies. Yahweh also declares to you that ^(S)Yahweh will make a house for you. ^12 (T)When your days are fulfilled and you ^(U)lie down with your fathers, ^(V)I will raise up one of your seed after you, who will come forth from ^[c]your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. ^13 (W)He shall build a house for My name, and ^(X)I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ^14 (Y)I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; ^(Z)when he commits iniquity, I will reprove him with the rod of men and the strikes from the sons of men, ¹⁵ but My lovingkindness shall not be removed from him, ^(AA)as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. ^16 (AB)And your house and your kingdom shall ^[d]endure before ^[e]Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’” ¹⁷ According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

David Magnifies Yahweh’s Name

¹⁸ Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh, and he said, “^(AC)Who am I, O Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far? ¹⁹ And yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord Yahweh, ^(AD)for You have spoken also of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future. And ^(AE)this is the law of man, O Lord Yahweh. ²⁰ And again what more can David say to You? And ^(AF)You know Your slave, O Lord Yahweh! ^21 (AG)For the sake of Your word, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness to let Your slave know. ²² For this reason ^(AH)You are great, O Lord Yahweh; for ^(AI)there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, ^(AJ)according to all that we have heard with our ears. ²³ And ^(AK)what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and ^(AL)to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before ^(AM)Your people whom ^(AN)You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods? ²⁴ Yet ^(AO)You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and ^(AP)You, O Yahweh, have become their God. ²⁵ So now, O Yahweh God, the word that You have spoken concerning Your slave and concerning his house, establish it forever, and do as You have spoken, ^26 (AQ)that Your name may be magnified forever, by saying, ‘Yahweh of hosts is God over Israel’; and the house of Your ^[f]servant David shall be established before You. ²⁷ For You, O Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed in the hearing of Your slave, saying, ‘^(AR)I will build you a house’; therefore Your slave has found courage in his heart to pray this prayer to You. ²⁸ So now, O Lord Yahweh, You are God, and ^(AS)Your words are truth, and You have ^[g]promised this good thing to Your slave. ²⁹ So now, be pleased and bless the house of Your slave, that it may be forever before You. For You, O Lord Yahweh, have spoken; and ^(AT)with Your blessing may the house of Your slave be blessed forever.”

God of All Comfort

1 Paul, ^(A)an apostle of ^(B)Christ Jesus ^(C)by the will of God, and ^(D)Timothy our brother,

To ^(E)the church of God which is at ^(F)Corinth with all the ^[a]saints who are throughout ^(G)Achaia:

^2 (H)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

^3 (I)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and ^(J)God of all comfort, ⁴ who ^(K)comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in ^[b]any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵ For just ^(L)as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. ⁶ But whether we are afflicted, it is ^(M)for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is working in your perseverance in the same sufferings which we also suffer. ⁷ And our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that ^(N)as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

⁸ For ^(O)we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of our ^(P)affliction which came to us in ^[c](Q)Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even to live. ^9 [d]Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not have confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ who ^(R)rescued us from so great a peril of death, and will rescue us, ^[e]He ^(S)on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet rescue us, ¹¹ you also joining in ^(T)helping us through your prayers on our behalf, so that thanks may be given on our behalf by ^(U)many persons for the gracious gift bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

Paul’s Change of Plans

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of ^(V)our conscience, that in ^[f]holiness and ^(W)godly sincerity, ^(X)not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you. ¹³ For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand ^(Y)until the end, ¹⁴ just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason for boasting as you also are ours, in ^(Z)the day of our Lord Jesus.

¹⁵ And in this confidence I intended at first to ^(AA)come to you, so that you might receive ^[g](AB)grace twice; ^16 [h]that is, to ^(AC)pass ^[i]your way into ^(AD)Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be ^(AE)helped on my journey to Judea. ¹⁷ Therefore, was I vacillating when I intended to do this? Or what I purpose, do I purpose ^(AF)according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time? ¹⁸ But as ^(AG)God is faithful, ^(AH)our word to you is not yes and no. ¹⁹ For ^(AI)the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and ^(AJ)Silvanus and ^(AK)Timothy—was not yes and no, but has become yes ^(AL)in Him. ²⁰ For ^(AM)as many as are the promises of God, ^(AN)in Him they are yes. Therefore also through Him is ^(AO)our Amen to the glory of God through us. ²¹ Now He who ^(AP)establishes us with you in Christ and ^(AQ)anointed us is God, ²² who also ^(AR)sealed us and ^(AS)gave the ^[j]pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ But ^(AT)I call God as witness ^[k]to my soul, that ^(AU)to spare you I did not come again to ^(AV)Corinth. ²⁴ Not that we ^(AW)lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are ^(AX)standing firm.

Is Jerusalem Useful for Anything?

15 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, how is the wood of the ^(A)vine better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest? ³ Can wood be taken from it to make ^[a]anything, or can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel? ^4 [b]If it has been put into the ^(B)fire for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its ends, and its middle part has been charred, is it then useful for ^[c]anything? ⁵ Behold, while it is intact, it is not made into ^[d]anything. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it still be made into ^[e]anything! ⁶ Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem; ⁷ and I will ^(C)give My face to be against them. Though they have ^(D)come out of the fire, yet the fire will consume them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set My face against them. ⁸ Thus I will give over the land to desolation because they have ^(E)acted unfaithfully,’” declares Lord Yahweh.

In God I Trust, I Shall Not Be Afraid

For the choir director. According to ^[a]Jonath Elem Rehokim. A ^[b]Mikhtam of David. ^[c]When the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Let Your Glory Be Above All the Earth

For the choir director. ^[r]Al-tashheth. Of David. A ^[s]Mikhtam. ^[t]When he fled from Saul in the cave.