M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
13 Saul now had been king for one year. And he reigned over Israel for two years.
2 Then Saul chose for himself three thousand of Israel. And two thousand were with Saul in Michmash, and on Mount Bethel. And a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the people he sent away, each man to his tent.
3 And Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was on the hill. And the Philistines’ heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Hear, O you Hebrews!”
4 And all Israel heard say, “Saul has destroyed a garrison of the Philistines!” Therefore, Israel was made abhorrent to the Philistines. And the people gathered together with Saul to Gilgal.
5 The Philistines also gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen. For the people were like the sand which is by the seaside in multitude, and came up and camped in Michmash, eastward from Beth Aven.
6 And when the men of Israel saw that they were in distress (for the people were oppressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holds and in rocks and in towers and in pits.
7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan, to the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul was still in Gilgal, and all the people, for fear followed him.
8 And he waited for seven days, according to the time that Samuel had appointed. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal. Therefore, the people were scattered from him.
9 And Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings.” And he offered a burnt offering.
10 And as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went forth to meet him, to greet him.
11 And Samuel said, “What have you done?” Then Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you had not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together to Michmash,
12 “therefore I said, ‘The Philistines will come down now upon me, to Gilgal. And I have not made supplication to the LORD.’ I was bold, therefore, and offered a burnt offering.”
13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly! You have not kept the Commandment of the LORD your [j]God, which He Commanded you! For the LORD had now established your kingdom upon Israel forever.
14 “But now, your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man after his own heart. And the LORD has Commanded him to be Governor over His people, because you have not kept that which the LORD had Commanded you.”
15 And Samuel arose and got himself up from Gilgal in Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul counted the people who were found with him, about six hundred men.
16 And Saul and Jonathan, his son, and the people who were found with them, had their lodging in Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines camped in Michmash.
17 And three bands came out of the camp of the Philistines, to destroy. One band turned to the road of Ophrah, to the land of Shual.
18 And another band turned toward the road to Beth Horon. And the third band turned toward the road of the territory that looks toward the valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness.
19 Then there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”
20 Therefore, all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, so that each man could sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his weeding hook.
21 But they already had a file for the plowshares and for the mattocks and for the pick forks and for the axes and to sharpen the goads.
22 So, when the day of battle had come, there was neither sword nor spear found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, but with Saul and Jonathan (his son).
23 And the garrison of the Philistines came out to the passage of Michmash.
11 I say then, has not God thrust away His people? Absolutely not! For I am also an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not thrust away His people, whom He knew before. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah; how he intercedes with God against Israel, saying,
3 “Lord, they have killed your Prophets, and dug down Your altars. And I am left alone. And they seek my life”?
4 But what does God say in response to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal”.
5 Even so then, at this present time, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if it is of grace, it is no more of works. Or else grace would no longer be grace. And if it is of works, it is no longer grace. Or else work would no longer be work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it sought. But the Elect have obtained it. And the rest have been hardened.
8 Just as it is written, “God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear until this day”.
9 And David says, “Let their table be made a snare, and a net, and a stumbling block, and a recompense to them.
10 “Let their eyes be darkened that they do not see and bow down their back continually.”
11 I say then, have they stumbled so that they should fall? Absolutely not! But through their fall, salvation comes to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Yet, if their fall is the riches of the world - and their diminishing the riches of the Gentiles - how much more shall their fulfillment be?
13 For in speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles) I magnify my office,
14 if, somehow, I might provoke those of my flesh to follow them and save some of them.
15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what shall their acceptance be if not life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole lump. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And though some of the branches are broken off, and you (being a wild olive tree) were grafted in among them, and made a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, “The branches have been broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
20 Well said. Through unbelief they have been broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
22 Behold, therefore, the kindness and severity of God - severity toward those who have fallen, but kindness toward you - if you continue in His kindness. Or else you shall also be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not still remain in unbelief, shall be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree (which is wild by nature) and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall those who are natural be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant of this secret, brothers (lest you be wise in your own eyes), that partial blindness has come to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved. As it is written, “The Deliverer shall come out of Zion, and shall turn away the ungodliness from Jacob.
27 And this is My covenant to them, When I shall take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the Fathers’ sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
30 For even as you, in times past, had not believed God and yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief,
31 so now have they not believed by the mercy shown to you, so that they may also obtain mercy.
32 For God has shut up all in unbelief, so that He might have mercy on all.
33 O the depth of the riches of both the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who was His counselor?
35 Or who has given to Him first, that he shall be recompensed?
36 For of Him, and through Him, and for Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.
50 The Word that the LORD spoke concerning Babel, and concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the ministry of Jeremiah the Prophet:
2 “Declare among the nations, and proclaim it, and set up a standard! Proclaim it, do not conceal it! Say, ‘Babel is taken! Bel is put to shame! Merodach is broken down! Her idols are humiliated, and their images have burst in pieces!’
3 “For out of the North there comes up a nation against her which shall make her land waste. And no one shall dwell in her. They shall flee and depart, both man and beast.
4 “In those days and at that time,” says the LORD, “the children of Israel shall come—they and the children of Judah going together and weeping—as they go and seek the LORD their God.
5 “They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces looking there, saying, ‘Come and let us cling to the LORD in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten.’
6 “My people have been like lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray and have turned them away to the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill, forgetting their resting place.
7 “All that found them have devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We have not offended,’ because they have sinned against the LORD, the Habitation of Justice, the LORD, the Hope of Their Fathers.
8 “Flee from the midst of Babel, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flock.
9 “For lo, I will raise, and cause to come up against Babel, a multitude of mighty nations from the North country. And they shall set themselves in formation against her, by which she shall be taken. Their arrows shall be like an expert strong man’s. For not one shall return empty.
10 “And Chaldea shall be a spoil. All who plunder her shall be satisfied,” says the LORD.
11 “Because you were glad and rejoiced in destroying My heritage. Because you have grown fat as the calves in the grass, and neighed like strong horses,
12 “your mother shall be very ashamed. And she who bore you shall be made least. Behold, the uttermost of the nations shall be a desert, a dry land, and a wilderness.
13 “Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited but shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babel shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
14 “Put yourselves in formation against Babel all around. All you who bend the bow, shoot at her. Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.
15 “Cry against her all around! She has given her hand. Her foundations have fallen. Her walls are destroyed. For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance upon her! As she has done, do to her!
16 “Destroy the sower from Babel, and he who handles the scythe in the time of harvest. Because of the sword of the oppressor, everyone shall turn to his people. And everyone shall flee to his own land.
17 “Israel is like scattered sheep. The lions have dispersed them. First, the king of Assyria devoured him. And last, this Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, broke his bones.”
18 Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will visit the king of Babel and his land, as I have visited the king of Assyria.
19 “And I will bring Israel back to his habitation. He shall feed in Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20 “In those days and at that time,” says the LORD, “the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none — and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found — for I will be merciful to those whom I reserve.
21 “Go up against the land of the rebels, against it and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Destroy and lay it waste after them,” says the LORD, “and do according to all that I have Commanded you.
22 “A cry of battle is in the land, and of great destruction!
23 “How the hammer of the whole world has been destroyed and broken! How desolate Babel has become among the nations!
24 “I have ensnared you, and you are captured, O Babel. And you were not aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have striven against the LORD.
25 “The LORD has opened His treasure, and has brought forth the weapons of His wrath. For this is the work of the LORD God of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 “Come against her from the utmost border. Open her storehouses, tread on her as on sheaves, and destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.
27 “Destroy all her young bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their reckoning!”
28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babel to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of His Temple:
29 “Call up the archers against Babel! All you who bend the bow, besiege it all around! Let no one escape! Repay her according to her work! According to all that she has done, do to her! For she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel!”
30 “Therefore, her young men shall fall in the streets. And all her men of war shall be destroyed on that day,” says the LORD.
31 “Behold, I come to you, O proud,” says the LORD God of Hosts, “For your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
32 “And the proud shall stumble and fall; and no one shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities; and it shall devour all around him.”
33 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “The children of Israel, and the children of Judah, were oppressed together. And all who took them captives held them and would not let them go.
34 “Their strong Redeemer, Whose Name is the LORD of Hosts, He shall maintain their cause, so that He may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babel.
35 “A sword upon the Chaldeans,” says the LORD, “and upon the inhabitants of Babel, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men!
36 “A sword upon the soothsayers; and they shall become fools! A sword upon her strong men; and they shall be afraid!
37 “A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the multitude that is in the midst of her; and they shall be like women! A sword upon her treasures; and they shall be plundered!
38 “A drought upon her waters; and they shall be dried up! For it is the land of graven images; and they boast of their idols.
39 “Therefore, the Ziims shall dwell with the Iims; and the ostriches shall dwell there. For it shall no longer be inhabited; nor shall it be inhabited from generation to generation.
40 “As God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with its nearby places,” says the LORD, “so shall no man dwell there; nor shall the son of man remain there.
41 “Behold, a people shall come from the North, and a great nation. And many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the Earth.
42 “They shall hold the bow and the buckler. They are cruel and unmerciful. Their voice shall roar like the sea. And they shall ride upon horses, be put in formation, like men to battle, against you, O daughter of Babel.
43 “The king of Babel has heard the report of them; and his hands grew feeble. Sorrow came upon him, sorrow as of a woman in labor.
44 “Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the strong habitation. For I will make them rest; and I will make them hurry away from her. And who is chosen whom I may appoint against her? For who is like Me; and who will summon Me; and who is the shepherd who will stand before Me?”
45 Therefore, hear the counsel of the LORD that He has advised against Babel, and His purpose that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out. Surely, He shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise of the winning of Babel, the Earth is moved; and the cry is heard among the nations!
28 To You, O LORD, do I cry. O my strength, do not be deaf toward me; lest if You do not answer me, I be like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions when I cry to You, when I hold up my hands toward Your Holy Oracle.
3 Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak friendly to their neighbors when malice is in their hearts.
4 Reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Recompense them for the work of their hands. Render them their reward.
5 For they do not reward the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands. Break them down and do not build them up.
6 Praised be the LORD, for He has heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in Him, and I was helped. Therefore, my heart shall rejoice; and with my song I will praise Him.
8 The LORD is their strength; and He is the strength of the deliverances of His anointed.
9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Feed them, also, and exalt them forever. A Psalm of David.
29 Give to the LORD, you sons of the Mighty. Give to the LORD glory and strength.
2 Give to the LORD glory due His Name. Worship the LORD in the glorious Sanctuary.
3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters. The God of Glory makes it thunder. The LORD is upon the great waters.
4 The voice of the LORD is mighty. The voice of the LORD is glorious.
5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Indeed, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He also makes them leap like a calf, Lebanon and Shirion like a young unicorn.
7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.
8 The voice of the LORD makes the wilderness tremble. The LORD makes the wilderness of Kadesh tremble.
9 The voice of the LORD makes the hinds calve and discovers the forests. In His Temple, every man speaks of His Glory.
10 The LORD sits upon the floods; and the LORD remains King forever.
11 The LORD shall give strength to His people. The LORD shall bless His people with peace. A Psalm or song of the dedication of the House of David.
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