M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
10 After Abimelech, Tola—the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Shamir on Mount Ephraim—arose to defend Israel.
2 And he judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty-two years.
4 And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth Jair to this day and are in the land of Gilead.
5 And Jair died and was buried in Camon.
6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtoreth and the gods of Aram and the gods of Sidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
7 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon,
8 who, from that year on, shattered and oppressed the children of Israel for eighteen years, all the children of Israel who were beyond Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9 Moreover, the children of Ammon went over Jordan to fight against Judah and against Benjamin and against the House of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely tormented.
10 Then, the children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, because we have forsaken our own God and have served Baal.
11 And the LORD said to the children of Israel, “Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines?
12 “The Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites also oppressed you, and you cried to Me; and I saved you out of their hands.
13 “Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods. Therefore, I will no longer deliver you.
14 “Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your tribulation.”
15 And the children of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever pleases You. Only, please deliver us this day!”
16 Then they put away the strange gods from among them and served the LORD. And His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
17 Then, the children of Ammon gathered themselves together and pitched in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves and pitched in Mizpah.
18 And the people and princes of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will begin the battle against the children of Ammon, the same shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
11 Then Gilead begat Jephthah. And Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant man, but the son of a harlot.
2 And Gilead’s wife bore him sons. And when the woman’s children had come of age, they thrust out Jephthah and said to him, “You shall not inherit in our father’s House; for you are the son of another woman.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren and dwelt in the land of Tob. And Jephthah’s worthless friends gathered there and went out with him.
4 And in the process of time, the children of Ammon made war with Israel.
5 And when the children of Ammon fought with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
6 And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our captain, so that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
7 Jephthah then answered the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s House? How then can you come to me now in the time of your tribulation?”
8 Then the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we turn again to you now, so that you may go with us and fight against the children of Ammon and be our Head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
9 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me back home to fight against the children of Ammon, if the LORD gives them before me, shall I be your head?”
10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD be Witness between us, if we do not do according to your words.”
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead; and the people made him head and captain over them. And Jephthah repeated all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.
14 And it so happened in Iconium that they went together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke, so that a great multitude of both the Jews and the Hellenists believed.
2 And the unbelieving Jews stirred up and corrupted the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.
3 So therefore they stayed there a long time, and spoke boldly in the Lord, Who gave testimony to the Word of His grace, and caused signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But the multitude of the city was divided. And some were with the Jews, and some with the Apostles.
5 And when a violent attempt to stone them was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers,
6 they were made aware of it, and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region,
7 and preached the Gospel there.
8 Now there sat a certain man at Lystra, without strength in his feet, who had been a cripple from his mother’s womb, and had never walked.
9 He heard Paul speak - who, looking at him and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” - And he leaped up and walked.
11 Then, when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “Gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
12 And they called Barnabas ‘Zeus’, and Paul ‘Hermes’, because he was the chief speaker.
13 Then the priest of Zeus, who dwelt in front of their city, brought bulls with garlands to the gates, and would have sacrificed with the people.
14 But when the Apostles Barnabas and Paul heard it, they tore their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying,
15 and saying, “O men, why do you do these things!? We are just men, subject to the same passions that you are. And we preach to you that you should turn from these meaningless things, to the living God; Who made Heaven and Earth, and the sea, and all things in them!
16 “Who in times past allowed all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways.
17 “Nevertheless, He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from the heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
18 And, speaking these things, they scarcely restrained the multitude from sacrificing to them.
19 Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium who - when they had persuaded the people - stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing he was dead.
20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and came into the city. And the next day he left for Derbe with Barnabas.
21 And after they had preached the glad tidings of the Gospel to that city (and had taught many) they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch,
22 confirming the disciples’ hearts and exhorting them to continue in the faith that we must enter into the Kingdom of God through many afflictions.
23 And when they had prayed and fasted and ordained them as elders by election in every church, they commended them to the Lord in Whom they believed.
24 Thus they went throughout Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.
25 And when they had preached the Word in Perga, they came down to Attalia,
26 And from there sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
27 And when they had come and gathered the church together, they recounted all the things which God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
28 So they stayed there with the disciples a long time.
23 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture,” says the LORD.
2 “Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Israel to the shepherds who feed My people: You have scattered My flock, and thrust them out, and have not visited them. Behold, I will reckon with you for the wickedness of your works,” says the LORD.
3 “And I will gather the remnant of My sheep out of all countries where I had driven them and will bring them again to their folds. And they shall grow and increase.
4 “And I will set up shepherds over them who shall feed them. And they shall dread no more nor be afraid, nor shall any of them be lacking,” says the LORD.
5 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch. And a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice on the Earth.
6 “In His days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is the Name by which they shall call Him: The Lord Our Righteousness.
7 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that they shall no longer say, ‘The LORD lives, Who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
8 “but, ‘The LORD lives, Who brought up and led the seed of the House of Israel out of the North country, and from all countries where I had scattered them,’ and they shall dwell in their own land.”
9 My heart breaks within me, because of the prophets. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the presence of the LORD and because of His holy Words.
10 For the land is full of adulterers. Because of oaths, the land mourns, the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 “For both the Prophet and the Priest do wickedly. And I have found their wickedness in My House,” says the LORD.
12 “Therefore, their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness. They shall be driven forth and fall in it. For I will bring a plague upon them, the year of their reckoning,” says the LORD.
13 “And I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria, who prophesied in Baal and caused My people Israel to err.
14 “I have also seen filthiness in the prophets of Jerusalem. They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of the wicked, so that no one can turn away from his wickedness. They are all to Me as Sodom, and their inhabitants as Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts concerning the prophets: ‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For wickedness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.’”
16 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you and teach you vanity. They speak the vision of their own heart, not out of the Mouth of the LORD.
17 “They continue to say to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD has said, “You shall have peace.”’ And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’”
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, so that he has perceived and heard His Word? Who has marked His Word and heard it?
19 Behold, the tempest of the LORD goes forth in wrath, and a violent whirlwind shall fall down upon the head of the wicked!
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return until He has executed, and until He has performed, the thoughts of His Heart. In the latter days, you shall understand it plainly.
21 “I have not sent these prophets,” says the LORD, “yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, and yet they prophesied.
22 “But if they had stood in My counsel, and had declared My Words to My people, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the wickedness of their inventions.
23 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a far off God?”
24 “Can anyone hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him,” says the LORD? “Do not I fill Heaven and Earth,” says the LORD?
25 “I have heard what the prophets said who prophesied lies in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed.’
26 “How long do the prophets delight to prophesy lies, even prophesying the deceit of their own heart?
27 “Do they intend to cause My people to forget My Name by their dreams, which everyone tells his neighbor, as their forefathers have forgotten My Name for Baal?
28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat,” says the LORD?
29 “Is not My Word like a fire,” says the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks the stone?
30 “Therefore, behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who steal My Word, each one from his neighbor.
31 “Behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who have sweet tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
32 “Behold, I will come against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their flatteries. And I did not send them or command them. Therefore, they bring no profit to this people,” says the LORD.
33 “And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest shall ask you, saying, ‘What is the oracle of the LORD?’ You shall then say to them, ‘What oracle? “I will forsake you,”’” says the LORD.
34 “And as for the prophet, or the priest, or the people who shall say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ I will reckon with each one and his house.
35 “Thus each one shall say to his neighbor, and each one to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
36 “And you shall no longer mention the oracle of the LORD. For each man’s word shall be his oracle. For you have perverted the Words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
37 “Thus shall you say to the Prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you? And what has the LORD spoken?’
38 “And if you say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ then thus says the LORD: Because you say this word, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ and I have sent to you, saying, ‘You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’
39 “Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you. And I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of My presence.
40 “And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall never be forgotten.”
9 And He said to them, “Truly I say to you that there are some of those who stand here who shall not taste of death till they have seen the Kingdom of God come with power.”
2 And six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter, and James, and John, and brought them up into a high mountain, out of the way, alone. And His shape was changed before them.
3 And His clothing shined, and was very white, as snow; whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them.
4 And Elijah appeared to them, with Moses. And they were talking with Jesus.
5 Then Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three tabernacles; one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
6 Yet he did not know what he said. For they were afraid.
7 And there was a cloud that shadowed them. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son. Hear Him.”
8 And suddenly they looked around and saw no one, except Jesus.
9 And as they came down from the mountain, He instructed them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead again.
10 So they kept that matter to themselves and asked each another what the ‘rising from the dead again’ might mean.
11 Also they asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
12 And He answered, and said to them, “Elijah truly shall come first, and restore all things. And as it is written of the Son of Man, He must suffer many things and be rejected.
13 “But I say to you, that Elijah has come. And they have done to him whatever they would, as it is written of him.”
14 And when He came to His disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and the scribes disputing with them.
15 And immediately all the people, when they saw Him, were amazed and ran to Him and greeted Him.
16 Then He asked the scribes, “What are you disputing among yourselves?”
17 And one of the crowd answered, and said, “Master, I have brought my son to You, who has a mute spirit!
18 And wherever I have taken him, the spirit has seized him. And he foams and gnashes his teeth and pines away. And I asked Your disciples to cast him out and they could not.”
19 Then Jesus answered him, and said, “O faithless generation! How long now shall I be with you? How long now shall I put up with you?! Bring him to Me.”
20 So they brought him to Jesus. And as soon as the spirit saw Him, he seized the child. And he fell down on the ground wallowing and foaming.
21 Then He asked his father, “How long has he been this way?” And he said, “His whole childhood.
22 “And often he casts him into the fire, or into the water, to destroy him. But if You can do anything, help us and have compassion upon us.”
23 And Jesus said to him, “If you can believe it, all things are possible to the one who believes.”
24 And immediately the father of the child, crying with tears, said, “Lord, I believe! Help my unbelief!”
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you come out of him! And enter into him no more!”
26 Then the spirit cried, and seized the child again, and came out. And the child was as one dead; so much so that many said, “He is dead.”
27 But Jesus took his hand and lifted him up. And he arose.
28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him secretly, “Why couldn’t we cast him out?”
29 And He said to them, “This kind can come forth by no other means but prayer and fasting.”
30 And they left there and went together through Galilee. And He would not allow them to tell anyone.
31 For He taught His disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man shall be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him. But after He is killed, He shall rise again the third day.”
32 But they did not understand that saying and were afraid to ask Him.
33 After that, He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house, He asked them, “What were you disputing among you on the way?”
34 And they kept silent. For along the way they had debated who should be first among them.
35 And He sat down and called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant to all.”
36 And He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And He took him in His arms and said to them,
37 “Whoever shall receive one of these little children in My Name, receives Me. And whoever receives Me, receives not Me, but He Who sent Me.”
38 Then John answered Him, saying, “Master, we saw one casting out demons by Your Name who does not follow us. And we forbade him because he does not follow us.”
39 But Jesus said, “Do no forbid him. For there is no one who can do a miracle by My Name who can lightly speak evil of Me.
40 “For whoever is not against us, is on our side.
41 “And whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink for My Name’s sake (because you belong to Christ), truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.
42 “And whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believes in Me to stumble, it were better for him if a millstone were hanged around his neck and that he were cast into the sea.
43 “So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed, than to have two hands and go into Hell; into the fire that never shall be quenched,
44 ‘Where their worm dies not, and the fire never goes out.’
45 “Likewise, if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, than to have two feet and be cast into Hell; into the fire that never shall be quenched,
46 ‘Where their worm dies not, and the fire never goes out.’
47 “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to go into the Kingdom of God with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into Hell fire,
48 ‘Where their worm dies not, and the fire never goes out.’
49 “For everyone shall be salted with fire. And every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
50 “Salt is good, but if the salt is tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another.”
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