M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
18 In those days, there was no king in Israel. And at the same time, the tribe of Dan sought an inheritance for themselves to dwell in. For up to that time, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
2 Therefore, the children of Dan sent from their family five men of their territory, men expert in war, out of Zorah and Eshtaol, to view the land and spy it out. And they said to them, “Go! Spy out the land!” Then they came to Mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah and lodged there.
3 When they were in the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite. And turning aside, they said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you make in this place? What are you doing here?”
4 And he answered them, “Micah has dealt thus and so with me…He has hired me. I am his priest.”
5 Again, they said to him, “Ask counsel now of God, so that we may know whether the way which we go shall be prosperous.”
6 And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. For the LORD guides your way which you go.”
7 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, who dwelt securely, just as the Sidonians, quiet and sure, because no man made any trouble in the land or usurped any dominion. Also, they were far from the Sidonians and had no business with anyone.
8 So, they came back to their brethren, to Zorah and Eshtaol. And their brethren said to them, “What have you to say?”
9 And they answered, “Arise, so that we may go up against them. For we have seen the land and surely it is very good. And do you sit still? Do not be slothful to go and enter to possess the land.
10 “If you will go, you shall come to a carefree people and a large country. For God has given it into your hand, a place which lacks nothing that is in the world.”
11 Then, there departed from there of the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with instruments of war.
12 And they went up and camped in Kirjath Jearim in Judah. Therefore, they called that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. And it is behind Kirjath Jearim.
13 And they went there, to Mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brethren, “Do you not know that there is, in these houses, an ephod and teraphim and a graven and a molten image? Now, therefore, consider what you have to do.”
15 And they turned that way and came to the house of the young Levite man, to the house of Micah, and greeted him peaceably.
16 And the six hundred men, appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
17 Then the five men who went to spy out the land went in there and took the graven image and the ephod and the teraphim and the molten image. And the priest stood in the entrance of the gate, with the six hundred men who were appointed with weapons of war.
18 And the other went into Micah’s house and fetched the graven image, the ephod and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
19 And they answered him, “Hold your peace. Lay your hand upon your mouth and come with us to be our father and priest. Which is better: that you should be a priest to the house of one man or that you should be a priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?”
20 And the priest’s heart was glad. And he took the ephod and the teraphim and the graven image and went among the people.
21 And they turned and departed and put the children and the cattle and the substance before them.
22 When they were far away from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and pursued after the children of Dan
23 and cried to the children of Dan, who turned their faces and said to Micah, “What ails you that you make such an outcry?”
24 And he said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone your ways. And what more do I have? How, then, can you say to me, ‘What ails you?’”
25 And the children of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest our angry friends run upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”
26 So the children of Dan went their ways. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came to Laish, to that quiet and trusting people, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
28 And there was no one to help, because Laish was far from Sidon, and they had no business with anyone. Also, it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. Afterward, they built the city and dwelt in it,
29 and called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel. However, the name of the city was Laish at the beginning.
30 Then the children of Dan set up the graven image for themselves. And Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, and his sons, were the priests in the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
31 So, they set up the graven image for themselves which Micah had made during the whole time the House of God was in Shiloh.
22 “You men, brothers and fathers, hear now my defense towards you!”
2 And when they heard him speak in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept even more silent. And he said,
3 “I am indeed a man born Jewish in Tarsus in Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and instructed according to the perfect manner of the Law of the Fathers. And I was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.
4 “And I persecuted the Way to the death, binding and delivering both men and women into prison,
5 “to which the chief priest and all the company of the elders also testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers and went to Damascus to bind those who were there and bring them to Jerusalem, so that they might be punished.
6 “And so it was as I journeyed and had come near to Damascus (about noon) that suddenly a great light from Heaven shone all around me.
7 “So I fell to the Earth and heard a voice saying to me, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?
8 “Then I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, Whom you persecute.’
9 “Moreover, those who were with me indeed saw a light and were afraid. But they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.
10 “Then I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord’? And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. And there you shall be told all things which are appointed for you to do.’
11 “So, after I could not see because of the Glory of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.
12 “And one Ananias (a godly man as pertaining to the Law, having good report of all the Jews who dwelt there)
13 “came to me and stood and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And that same hour I looked at him.
14 “And he said, ‘The God of our Fathers has appointed you, that you should know His will, and should see the Just One, and should hear the voice of His mouth.
15 ‘For you shall be His witness to all mankind of the things which you have seen and heard.
16 ‘Now therefore why do you wait? Arise, and be baptized. And wash away your sins by calling on the Name of the Lord.’
17 “And it so happened that when I had again come to Jerusalem, and prayed in the Temple, I was in a trance.
18 “And I saw Him, saying to me, ‘Hurry. And get out of Jerusalem quickly. For they will not receive your witness concerning Me.’
19 “Then I said, ‘Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You in every Synagogue.
20 ‘And when the blood of Your martyr, Stephen, was shed, I also stood by and consented to his death, and guarded the clothes of those who killed him.’
21 “Then He said to me, “Go. For I will send you far from here, to the Gentiles.’”
22 And they heard him until this word. Then they lifted up their voices, and said, “Away with such a fellow from the Earth! For he is not fit to live!”
23 And as they cried and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
24 the chief captain commanded him to be led into the castle, and ordered that he should be scourged, and examined, that he might know why they cried so against him.
25 And as they bound him with straps, Paul said to the Centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge one who is a Roman, and not condemned?”
26 Now when the Centurion heard that, he told the chief captain, saying, “Be careful what you do. For this man is a Roman.”
27 Then the chief captain came and said to him, “Tell me. Are you a Roman?” And he said, “Yes.”
28 And the chief captain answered, “I obtained this freedom with a great sum.” Then Paul said, “But I was born so.”
29 Then immediately, those who should have examined him departed. And the chief captain was also afraid after he realized that he was a Roman, and that he had bound him.
30 On the next day, because he wanted to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him from his bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their Council to come together. And he brought Paul and set him before them.
32 The Word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
2 For then, the king of Babel’s host besieged Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the Prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
3 For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babel, and he shall take it.
4 “And Zedekiah, the king of Judah, shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hands of the king of Babel, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth. And his eyes shall behold his face,
5 “And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babel. And there he shall be until I visit him,” says the LORD. “Though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper.”’?”
6 And Jeremiah said, “The Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
7 “Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, shall come to you and say, ‘Buy my field for yourself, which is in Anathoth. For the right of redemption is yours, to buy it.’
8 “So Hanamel, my uncle’s son, came to me in the court of the prison, according to the Word of the LORD, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field which is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin. For the right of the possession is yours, and the purchase yours. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the Word of the LORD.
9 “And I bought the field from Hanamel, my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and measured out to him the silver: seventeen shekels.
10 “And I wrote it in the book and signed it, and took witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
11 “So I took the deed of purchase, being sealed according to the Law and custom, with the deed that was open.
12 “And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel, my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses written in the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.
13 “And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14 ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Take the writings, this deed of purchase that is sealed and the deed that is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, so that they may last a long time.”
15 ‘For the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says thus: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.”’
16 “Now when I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying,
17 ‘Ah, LORD God, behold. You have made the heaven and the earth by Your great power, and by Your outstretched Arm. And there is nothing hard for You.
18 ‘You show mercy to thousands and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O, God! The great and mighty! Whose Name is the LORD of Hosts,
19 ‘great in counsel and mighty in work, (for Your Eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works)
20 ‘Who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt to this day and in Israel and among all men and has made Yourself a Name, as it is this day,
21 ‘and has brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and an outstretched Arm, and with great terror.
22 ‘And You have given them this land which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land that flows with milk and honey.
23 ‘And they came in and possessed it. But they did not obey Your Voice or walk in Your Law. All that You Commanded them to do, they have not done. Therefore, You have caused this whole plague to come upon them.
24 ‘Behold the siege mounts. They have come into the city, to take it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it by means of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence. And what You have spoken has come to pass. And behold, You see it.
25 ‘And You have said to me, O LORD God: “Buy the field for silver, and take witnesses.” For the city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’”
26 Then came the Word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying:
27 “Behold, I am the LORD, God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?”
28 Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel. And he shall take it.
29 “And the Chaldeans shall come and fight against this city and set fire to this city and burn it with the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.
30 “For the children of Israel, and the children of Judah, have surely done evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have surely provoked Me to anger with the works of their hands,” says the LORD.
31 “Therefore this city has been to Me as a provocation of My anger, and of My wrath, from the day that they built it until this day, so that I should remove it out of My sight
32 “because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger — they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their Prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 “And they have turned the back to Me and not the face. Though I taught them, rising up early and instructing them, still they were not obedient to receive doctrine.
34 “But they set their abominations in the House upon which My Name was called, to defile it.
35 “And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them. Nor did it come into My mind that they should do such abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
36 “And now, therefore, thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken concerning this city, of which you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babel by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.’
37 “Behold, I will gather them out of all countries to which I have scattered them in My anger, and in My wrath, and in great indignation. And I will bring them back to this place. And I will cause them to dwell safely.
38 “And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
39 “And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and of their children after them.
40 “And I will make an everlasting Covenant with them: that I will never turn away from them to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they shall not depart from Me.
41 “Yea, I will delight in them, to do them good. And I will assuredly plant them in this land with My whole Heart, and with all My Soul.
42 “For thus says the LORD: ‘Just as I have brought all this great plague upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
43 “And the fields shall be possessed in this land of which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or beast, and shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
44 “Men shall buy fields for silver, and make writings and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and all around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the South. For I will cause their captivity to return,’ says the LORD.”
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD. And on His Law does he meditate day and night.
3 For he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that will bring forth her fruits in due season; whose leaf shall not fade. So, whatever he shall do shall prosper.
4 The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous. And the way of the wicked shall perish.
2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people murmur in vain?
2 The kings of the Earth stand together. And the Princes are assembled together against the LORD, and against His Christ.
3 Let us break their bands and cast their cords from us.
4 But he who dwells in the heavens shall laugh. The LORD shall hold them in derision.
5 Then shall He speak to them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure, saying,
6 “I have set My King upon Zion, My Holy Mountain.”
7 “I will declare the decree. The LORD has said to me, ‘You are My Son. This day have I begotten You.
8 “Ask of Me, and I shall give You the heathen for Your inheritance, and the ends of the Earth for Your possession.
9 “You shall crush them with a scepter of iron; and break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”
10 Be wise now, therefore, you kings. Be learned, you judges of the Earth.
11 Serve the LORD in fear; and rejoice in trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish on the way when His wrath shall suddenly burn. Blessed are all who trust in Him. A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.
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