M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

2 And Solomon saith to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom,

² and Solomon numbereth seventy thousand men bearing burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mountain, and overseers over them -- three thousand and six hundred.

³ And Solomon sendeth unto Huram king of Tyre, saying, `When thou hast dealt with David my father, then thou dost send to him cedars to build for him a house to dwell in;

⁴ lo, I am building a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to sanctify [it] to Him, to make perfume before Him, perfume of spices, and a continual arrangement, and burnt-offerings at morning and at evening, at sabbaths, and at new moons, and at appointed seasons of Jehovah our God; to the age this [is] on Israel.

⁵ `And the house that I am building [is] great, for greater [is] our God than all gods;

⁶ and who doth retain strength to build to Him a house, for the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Him? and who [am] I that I do build to Him a house, except to make perfume before Him?

⁷ `And now, send to me a wise man to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and knowing to grave gravings with the wise men who [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared;

⁸ and send to me cedar-trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I have known that thy servants know to cut down trees of Lebanon, and lo, my servants [are] with thy servants,

⁹ even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building [is] great and wonderful.

¹⁰ `And lo, to hewers, to those cutting the trees, I have given beaten wheat to thy servants, cors twenty thousand, and barley, cors twenty thousand, and wine, baths twenty thousand, and oil, baths twenty thousand.'

¹¹ And Huram king of Tyre saith in writing, and sendeth unto Solomon: `In the love of Jehovah to His people He hath given thee king over them.'

¹² And Huram saith, `Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, knowing wisdom and understanding, who doth build a house for Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.

¹³ `And now, I have sent a wise man having understanding, of Huram my father,

¹⁴ (son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre), knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to grave any graving, and to devise any device that is given to him, with thy wise men, and the wise men of my lord David thy father.

¹⁵ `And, now, the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, as my lord said, let him send to his servants,

¹⁶ and we -- we cut trees out of Lebanon, according to all thy need, and bring them in to thee -- floats by sea, to Joppa, and thou dost take them up to Jerusalem.'

¹⁷ And Solomon numbereth all the men, the sojourners who [are] in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them, and they are found a hundred and fifty thousand, and three thousand, and six hundred;

¹⁸ and he maketh of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers, to cause the people to work.

2 My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

² and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

³ and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

⁴ he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

⁵ and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

⁶ He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

⁷ Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

⁸ again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

⁹ he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

¹⁰ he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

¹¹ and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

¹² I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

¹³ I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who [is] from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:

¹⁴ I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who [is] from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

¹⁵ Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

¹⁶ because all that [is] in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

¹⁷ and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

¹⁸ Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many -- whence we know that it is the last hour;

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

²⁰ And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things;

²¹ I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

²² Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son;

²³ every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, [he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.]

²⁴ Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

²⁵ and this is the promise that He did promise us -- the life the age-during.

²⁶ These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray;

²⁷ and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

²⁸ And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

²⁹ if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

1 Burden of Nineveh. The Book of the Vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

² A God zealous and avenging [is] Jehovah, An avenger [is] Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger [is] Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.

³ Jehovah [is] slow to anger, and great in power, And Jehovah doth not entirely acquit, In a hurricane and in a tempest [is] His way, And a cloud [is] the dust of His feet.

⁴ He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing [are] Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon [is] languishing.

⁵ Mountains have shaken because of Him, And the hills have been melted; And lifted up [is] the earth at His presence, And the world and all dwelling in it.

⁶ Before His indignation who doth stand? And who riseth up in the heat of His anger? His fury hath been poured out like fire, And the rocks have been broken by Him.

⁷ Good [is] Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

⁸ And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

⁹ What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.

¹⁰ For while princes [are] perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

¹¹ From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.

¹² Thus said Jehovah: Though complete, and thus many, Yet thus they have been cut off, And he hath passed away. And I afflicted thee, I afflict thee no more.

¹³ And now I break his rod from off thee, And thy bands I do draw away.

¹⁴ And commanded concerning thee hath Jehovah, `No more of thy name doth spread abroad, From the house of thy gods I cut off graven and molten image, I appoint thy grave, for thou hast been vile.

¹⁵ Lo, on the mountains the feet of one proclaiming tidings, sounding peace! Celebrate, O Judah, thy festivals, complete thy vows, For add no more to pass over into thee doth the worthless, He hath been completely cut off!

17 And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo [to him] through whom they come;

² it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

³ `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

⁴ and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'

⁶ and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

⁷ `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

⁸ but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

⁹ Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

¹⁰ `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'

¹¹ And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

¹² and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,

¹³ and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'

¹⁴ and having seen [them], he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,

¹⁵ and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,

¹⁶ and he fell upon [his] face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?

¹⁸ There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'

¹⁹ and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'

²⁰ And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;

²¹ nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'

²² And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold [it];

²³ and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;

²⁴ for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

²⁵ and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

²⁶ `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

²⁸ in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

³⁰ `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

³¹ in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

³² remember the wife of Lot.

³³ Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

³⁴ `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

³⁵ two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

³⁶ two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'

³⁷ And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body [is], there will the eagles be gathered together.'