M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
The Silver Horns
10 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Make two silver horns of beaten silver. Use them for calling the people together and for having the people move on. 3 When both horns sound, all the people will gather in front of you at the door of the meeting tent. 4 If only one horn sounds, then the leaders, the heads of the families of Israel, will gather in front of you. 5 When you blow the horn to tell of danger, the people whose tents are on the east side will leave. 6 When you blow the horn to tell of danger a second time, the people whose tents are on the south side will leave. A horn telling of danger will be blown when they are to move on. 7 But when the people are to be gathered together, you will blow the horn without the sound of danger. 8 Aaron’s sons, the religious leaders, will blow the horns. This will be a Law for all your people forever. 9 When you go to war in your land against those who fight you, then sound the horns to tell of war. That way you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved from those who hate you. 10 On the days you are glad and at the time of your special suppers and on the first days of your months, blow the horns. Blow the horns over your burnt gifts and over your peace gifts. Then you will be remembered before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
The Children of Israel Leave Sinai
11 On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, the cloud was lifted from over the meeting tent of the Law. 12 The people of Israel moved on from the Desert of Sinai. Then the cloud came down and rested in the desert of Paran. 13 So they moved for the first time as the Lord had told them through Moses. 14 The flag of the people of Judah left first, by their armies. Amminadab’s son Nahshon was the head of their army. 15 Zuar’s son Nethanel was the head of the men of Issachar. 16 And Helon’s son Eliab was the head of the men of Zebulun.
17 When the meeting tent was taken down, the sons of Gershon and Merari left carrying it. 18 Next the flag of the people of Reuben left, by their armies. Shedeur’s son Elizur was the head over this army. 19 Zurishaddai’s son Shelumiel was the head of the men of Simeon. 20 Deuel’s son Eliasaph was the head of the men of Gad. 21 Then the Kohathites left, carrying the holy objects. The meeting tent was set up before they came to the next place. 22 Next the flag of the people of Ephraim left, by their armies. Ammihud’s son Elishama was the head over this army. 23 Pedahzur’s son Gamaliel was the head of the men of Manasseh. 24 Gideoni’s son Abidan was the head of the men of Benjamin.
25 Then the flag of the people of Dan left, by their armies. They followed behind all the people of Israel, to watch for danger. Ammishaddai’s son Ahiezer was the head over this army. 26 Ochran’s son Pagiel was the head of the men of Asher. 27 And Enan’s son Ahira was the head of the men of Naphtali. 28 This was how the people of Israel moved on by their armies.
29 Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are going to the place the Lord said He will give to us. Come with us and we will do you good. For the Lord has promised good to Israel.” 30 But Hobab said to him, “I will not come. I will go to my own land and family.” 31 Moses said, “I beg you, do not leave us. For you know where we should stay in the desert. You will be like eyes for us. 32 If you go with us, we will do for you whatever good the Lord does for us.”
33 So they traveled for three days from the mountain of the Lord with the special box with the Law of the Lord in front of them looking for a place for them to rest. 34 The cloud of the Lord was over them during the day, when they moved on.
35 When the special box of the Lord moved on, Moses said, “Rise up, O Lord! Let those who hate You be divided. Let those who hate You run away before You.” 36 And when it rested, he said, “Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel.”
God Is with Us
46 God is our safe place and our strength. He is always our help when we are in trouble. 2 So we will not be afraid, even if the earth is shaken and the mountains fall into the center of the sea, 3 and even if its waters go wild with storm and the mountains shake with its action.
4 There is a river whose waters make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High lives. 5 God is in the center of her. She will not be moved. God will help her when the morning comes. 6 The people made noise. The nations fell. He raised His voice and the earth melted. 7 The Lord of All is with us. The God of Jacob is our strong place.
8 Come and see the works of the Lord. He has destroyed parts of the earth. 9 He stops wars to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the war-wagons with fire. 10 Be quiet and know that I am God. I will be honored among the nations. I will be honored in the earth. 11 The Lord of All is with us. The God of Jacob is our strong place.
God—the King of the Earth
47 Show your happiness, all peoples! Call out to God with the voice of joy! 2 For the Lord Most High is to be feared. He is a great King over all the earth. 3 He sets people under us, and nations under our feet. 4 He chooses for us what is to be ours, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.
5 God has gone up with a loud voice, the Lord with the sound of a horn. 6 Sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises to our King. Sing praises. 7 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with a well written song. 8 God rules over the nations. God sits on His holy throne. 9 The rulers of the people have gathered together as the people of the God of Abraham. For the powers of the earth belong to God. He is much honored.
8 “O that you were like a brother to me, who nursed from my mother’s breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would hate me. 2 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, who used to teach me. I would give you wine with spices to drink, made from my pomegranates. 3 Let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand hold me close.”
King Solomon
4 “I tell you, O daughters of Jerusalem. You must not wake up my love, until it is pleasing to her.”
The Sixth Song
Women of Jerusalem
5 “Who is this coming up from the desert, resting on her loved one?”
The Woman
“I woke you up under the fruit tree. There your mother suffered and gave birth to you. 6 Put me over your heart and on your arm, never to be taken off. For love is as strong as death. Jealousy is as hard as the grave. Its bright light is like the light of fire, the very fire of the Lord. 7 Many waters cannot put out love. Rivers cannot cover it. If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would all be hated.”
The Woman’s Brothers
8 “We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What should we do for our sister on the day when she is promised in marriage? 9 If she is a wall, we should build on her a tower of silver. But if she is a door, we should cover her with strong pieces of cedar wood.”
The Woman
10 “I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers. Then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.”
The Woman’s Brothers
11 “Solomon has a grape-field at Baal-hamon. He put the grape-field into the care of certain men. Each one was to bring 1,000 pieces of silver for its fruit. 12 My own grape-field is for myself. The 1,000 pieces of silver are for you, Solomon. And 200 are for those who take care of its fruit.”
13 “O you who sit in the gardens, my friends are listening for your voice. Let me hear it.”
The Woman
14 “Hurry, my love. Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.”
8 Now the important thing is this: We have such a Religious Leader Who has made the way for man to go to God. He is the One Who sits at the right side of the All-powerful God in the heavens. 2 He is the Religious Leader of that holy place in heaven which is the true place of worship. It was built by the Lord and not by men’s hands. 3 Every religious leader of the Old Way of Worship had the work of killing animals and of giving gifts on the altar to God. So Christ had to have something to give also. 4 If Christ were on the earth, He would not be a religious leader such as these. The religious leaders on earth give gifts like the Law says. 5 Their work shows us only a picture of the things in heaven. When Moses was putting up the tent to worship in, God told him, “Be sure you make the tent for worship like I showed you on Mount Sinai.” (A)
6 But Christ has a more perfect work. He is the One Who goes between God and man in this new and better way. The New Way of Worship promises better things. 7 If the Old Way of Worship had been perfect, there would have been no need for another one. 8 God was not happy how the people lived by the Old Way of Worship. He said, “The day will come when I will make a New Way of Worship for the Jews and those of the family group of Judah. 9 The New Way of Worship will not be like the Old Way of Worship I gave to their early fathers. That was when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. But they did not follow the Old Way of Worship. And so I turned away from them. 10 This is the New Way of Worship that I will give to the Jews. When that day comes, says the Lord, I will put My Laws into their minds. And I will write them in their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. 11 No one will need to teach his neighbor or his brother to know the Lord. All of them will already know Me from the least to the greatest. 12 I will show loving-kindness to them and forgive their sins. I will remember their sins no more.” (B)
13 When God spoke about a New Way of Worship, He showed that the Old Way of Worship was finished and of no use now. It will never be used again.
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