M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
7 Then, the men of Kirjath Jearim came and took up the Ark of the LORD and brought it into the house of Abinadab, on the hill. And they sanctified Eleazar, his son, to keep the Ark of the LORD.
2 (For the Ark had stayed in Kirjath Jearim a long time, for twenty years.) And all the House of Israel lamented after the LORD.
3 Then Samuel spoke to all the House of Israel, saying, “If you have come back to the LORD with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, and Ashtoreth, and direct your hearts to the LORD and serve Him only; and He shall deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
4 Then, the children of Israel did put away Baal and Ashtoreth and served the LORD only.
5 And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to the LORD.”
6 And they gathered together to Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted the same day, and said there, “We have sinned against the LORD!” And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel had gathered together in Mizpah, the princes of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard that, they were afraid of the Philistines.
8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease crying to the LORD our God for us, so that He may save us out of the hand of the Philistines!”
9 Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it all together for a Burnt Offering to the LORD. And Samuel cried to the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
10 And as Samuel offered the Burnt Offering, the Philistines came to fight against Israel. But the LORD thundered with a great thunder upon the Philistines that day and scattered them. So they were killed before Israel.
11 And the men of Israel went from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them until they came under Beth Car.
12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name, Ebenezer. And he said, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
13 So the Philistines were subdued. And they no longer came back into the territory of Israel. And the Hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all of Samuel’s life.
14 Also, the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron all the way to Gath. And Israel delivered the territories of the same out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life,
16 and went about year after year to Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah and judged Israel in all those places.
17 Afterward, he returned to Ramah, for his house was there. And there he judged Israel. Also, he built an Altar there to the LORD.
8 When Samuel had now become old, he made his sons judges over Israel,
2 judges in Beersheba. The name of his eldest son was Joel and the name of the second was Abijah.
3 And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after unjust gain, and took bribes, and perverted their judgment.
4 Therefore, all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel, to Ramah,
5 and said to him, “Behold, you are old. And your sons do not walk in your ways. Make us now a king to judge us, like all the nations.”
6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
7 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Hear the voice of the people in all that they shall say to you. For they have not cast you away, but have cast Me away, so that I would not reign over them.
8 “As they have always done, since I brought them out of Egypt up until this day (forsaking Me and serving other gods), even so they do to you.
9 “Now, therefore, listen to their voice. However, still testify to them and show them the behavior of the king who shall reign over them.”
10 So, Samuel told all the Words of the LORD to the people who asked for a king from Him.
11 And he said, “This shall be the behavior of the king who shall reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen. And some shall run before his chariot.
12 “Also, he will make them his captains over thousands, and captains over fifties, and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make instruments of war, and the things that serve for his chariots.
13 “He will also take your daughters and make them apothecaries and cooks and bakers.
14 “And he will take your fields and your vineyards and your best olive trees and give them to his servants.
15 “And he will take a tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his eunuchs and to his servants.
16 “And he will take your menservants and your maidservants and the chief of your young men and your donkeys and put them to work for him.
17 “He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you shall be his servants.
18 “And you shall cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves. And the LORD will not hear you on that day.”
19 But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, but said, “No, but there shall be a king over us!
20 “And we, also, will be like all other nations; and our king shall judge us and go out before us and fight our battles!”
21 Therefore, when Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the Ears of the LORD.
22 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice; and make them a king.” And Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city!”
6 What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may abound? Absolutely not!
2 How shall we, who are dead to sin, still live in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death?
4 We are then buried with Him, through baptism, into His death; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, to the glory of the Father, we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we are united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall also be so in the likeness of His resurrection,
6 knowing this: that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be made useless and that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For whoever has died is freed from sin.
8 Therefore, if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death has no more dominion over Him.
10 For, in that He died, He died once to sin. But in that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise, you also consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts;
13 nor give the parts of your body to sin, as weapons of unrighteousness. But give yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead. And give the parts of your body to God, as weapons of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you. For you are not under the Law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that to whomever you give yourselves as servants, to obey, you are his servants whom you obey; whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 Thanks be to God that, although you had been the servants of sin, you have obeyed (from the heart) the type of doctrine by which you were delivered.
18 Being then made free from sin, you are made the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. For as you have given the parts of your body over as servants to impurity and lawlessness, to commit lawlessness, so now give the parts of your body over as servants to righteousness in holiness.
20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were freed from righteousness.
21 What fruit did you then have in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, being freed from sin, and made servants to God, you have your fruit in holiness; and in the end, everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
44 The Word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwell in the land of Egypt and remained at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
2 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘You have seen all the misery that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah. And behold, this day they are desolate, and no one dwells in it,
3 ‘because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense to serve other gods whom they did not know, neither they nor you nor your fathers.
4 ‘However, I sent all my servants, the Prophets, to you, rising early and sending, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!”
5 ‘But they would not hear or incline their ear, to turn from their wickedness and to no longer burn incense to other gods.
6 ‘Therefore, My wrath and My anger was poured forth, and was kindled, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. And they were desolate and wasted, as they are this day.
7 “Therefore, now, thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you commit great evil against yourselves—to cut off man and woman from you, child and infant from out of Judah, leaving no one remaining—
8 in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, so that you might bring destruction to yourselves, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all nations of the Earth?
9 ‘Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 ‘They are not humbled to this day, nor have they feared or walked in My Law or in My Statutes, which I set before you and before your fathers.’
11 “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will set My Face against you to misery, and to destroy all Judah.
12 ‘And I will take the remnant of Judah that has set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell. And they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They shall die, from the least to the most, by the sword, and by the famine. And they shall be a detestation and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach.
13 ‘For I will visit those who dwell in the land of Egypt as I have visited Jerusalem—by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence—
14 ‘so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or survive, lest they should return to the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return, to dwell there. For no one shall return but those who shall escape.’”
15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burnt incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by (a great multitude), all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16 “The Word that you have spoken to us in the Name of the LORD, we will not hear it from you.
17 “But we will do whatever thing goes out of our own mouth—to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—for then we had plenty of rations and were well and felt no misery.
18 “But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had scarceness of all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”
19 And the women said, “And when we burnt incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to make her glad and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands?”
20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women and to all the people who had given him that answer, saying,
21 “Did not the LORD remember the incense that you burnt in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? And has He not considered it?
22 “So the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the wickedness of your inventions, because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore, your land was desolate and an astonishment and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
23 “Because you have burnt incense, and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the Voice of the LORD, nor walked in His Law, nor in His Statutes, nor in His Testimonies, therefore this plague has come upon you, as it is this day.”
24 Moreover, Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, “Hear the Word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt!
25 “Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, “We will perform our vows that we have vowed to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.” You will perform your vows and do the things that you have vowed.’
26 “Therefore, hear the Word of the LORD, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by My great Name,’ says the LORD, ‘that My Name shall no longer be called upon by the mouth of any man of Judah, in all the land of Egypt, saying, “The LORD God lives.”
27 ‘Behold, I will watch over them for misery, and not for prosperity. And all men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine, until they are utterly destroyed.
28 ‘Still, a small number who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt, into the land of Judah. And all the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall know Whose Words shall stand, Mine or theirs.
29 ‘And this shall be a sign to you,’ says the LORD, ‘when I visit you in this place, so that you may know that My Words shall surely stand against you for misery.’
30 “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, his enemy, who also sought his life.’”
20 The LORD hear you on the day of trouble. The Name of the God of Jacob defend you;
2 send you help from the Sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion.
3 Let Him remember all your offerings and turn your burnt offerings into ashes. Selah.
4 Grant you according to your heart and fulfill all your purpose,
5 so that we may rejoice in your salvation—and set up the banner in the Name of our God—when the LORD shall perform all your petitions.
6 Now I know that the LORD will help His anointed; and will hear him from His Sanctuary, by the mighty help of His right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses. But we will remember the Name of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen. But we are risen and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD! Let the king hear us on the day that we call! To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
21 The king shall rejoice in Your strength, O LORD. Indeed, how greatly shall he rejoice in Your salvation!
2 You have given him his heart’s desire and have not denied the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For You meet him with liberal blessings and set a crown of pure gold upon his head.
4 He asked life of You, and You gave him a long life forever and ever.
5 His glory is great in Your salvation. Dignity and honor You have laid upon him.
6 For You have set him as most blessed forever. You have made him glad with the joy of Your countenance.
7 Because the king trusts in the LORD, and in the mercy of the Most High, he shall not slide.
8 Your hand shall find out all Your enemies. And Your right hand shall find out those who hate You.
9 You shall make them like a fiery oven in time of Your anger. The LORD shall destroy them in His wrath. And the fire shall devour them.
10 You shall destroy their fruit from the Earth, and their seed from the children of men.
11 For they intended evil against You and imagined mischief. But they shall not prevail.
12 Therefore, You shall make them turn their back. And You shall make ready the strings of Your bow against their faces.
13 Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength. So, will we sing and praise Your power. To him who excels upon Aijeleth Hashahar: A Psalm of David.
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