M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
15 Afterward, Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now, therefore, obey the Voice of the Words of the LORD.
2 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how they laid in wait for them on the road, as they came up from Egypt.
3 ‘Now go and strike Amalek, and destroy all that they have, and have no compassion on them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
4 And Saul assembled the people in Telaim and counted them, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek and set a watch at the river.
6 And Saul said to the Kenites, “Go! Depart! Get yourselves down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed mercy to all the children of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” And the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7 So Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah (as you come to Shur, that is before Egypt),
8 and took Agag, the king of the Amalekites, alive and destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the better sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs and all that was good; and they would not destroy them. But everything that was vile and worth nothing, that they destroyed.
10 Then came the Word of the LORD to Samuel, saying,
11 “I regret that I have made Saul king; for he has turned from Me and has not performed My Commandments.” And Samuel was moved and cried to the LORD all night.
12 And when Samuel arose early to meet Saul in the morning, one told Samuel, saying, “Saul has gone to Carmel. And behold, he has made himself a place there, from where he returned and departed and has gone down to Gilgal.”
13 Then Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you of the LORD! I have fulfilled the Commandment of the LORD!”
14 But Samuel said, “What, then, does the bleating of the sheep in my ears mean, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”
15 And Saul answered, “They have brought them from the Amalekites. For the people spared the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, to sacrifice them to the LORD your God. And the rest we have destroyed.”
16 Again, Samuel said to Saul, “Let me tell you what the LORD has said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Say on.”
17 Then Samuel said, “When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel? For the LORD anointed you king over Israel.
18 “And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go and destroy those sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until you destroy them!’
19 “Now, why have you not obeyed the Voice of the LORD, but have turned to the prey and have done wickedly in the sight of the LORD?”
20 And Saul said to Samuel, “Yea, I have obeyed the Voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalek, and have destroyed the Amalekites.
21 “But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen and the best of the things which should have been destroyed, to offer to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”
22 And Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great a pleasure in Burnt Offerings and Sacrifices as when the Voice of the LORD is obeyed? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen is better than the fat of rams.
23 “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft; and transgression is wickedness and idolatry. Because you have cast away the Word of the LORD, therefore He has cast away you from being king.”
24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned. For I have transgressed the Commandment of the LORD, and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
25 “Now, therefore, please take away my sin and turn back with me, so that I may worship the LORD.”
26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have cast away the Word of the LORD, and the LORD has cast away you, so that you shall not be king over Israel.”
27 And as Samuel turned himself to go away, he caught the lap of his coat, and it tore.
28 Then Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.
29 “For indeed the Strength of Israel will neither lie nor repent. For He is not a man that He should repent.”
30 Then he said, “I have sinned. But, please honor me before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.
31 So, Samuel turned back and followed Saul. And Saul worshipped the LORD.
32 Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag, the king of the Amalekites, here to me.” And Agag came to him pleasantly; and Agag said, “Truly the bitterness of death has passed.”
33 And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among other women.” And Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
34 So Samuel departed to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house, to Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel no longer came to see Saul until the day of his death. But Samuel mourned for Saul. And the LORD regretted that He made Saul king over Israel.
13 Let every soul be subject to the superior authorities. For there is no authority except from God. And the existing authority is ordained by God.
2 Therefore, whoever resists that authority, resists the ordinance of God. And those who resist, shall receive condemnation upon themselves.
3 For rulers are not to be feared for good works, but for evil. Do you, then, wish to be without fear of authority? Do well, and you shall have of the same.
4 For he is the minister of God for your good. But if you do evil, fear. For he does not bear the sword for nothing. For he is the minister of God to take vengeance on evildoers.
5 Therefore, you must be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
6 For because of this you also pay tribute. For they are God’s ministers, persisting continually in this very thing.
7 Therefore, give all their due - tribute to whom you owe tribute, custom to whom custom: fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
8 Owe nothing to anyone, except to be loving one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the Law.
9 For these: ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet’ - as well as any other Commandment - are summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’.
10 Love does no evil to his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.
11 And this also we know (considering the season): that now is the time that we should arise from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we believed it.
12 The night is past, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast away the works of darkness. And let us put on the armor of light,
13 so that we walk honestly (as in the day), not in gluttony and drunkenness, nor in promiscuity and lewdness, nor in strife and envying.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ. And take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
52 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. And he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD, the same as all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 For the following happened in Jerusalem and Judah at that time, until He had cast them out from His presence, because of the wrath of the LORD. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babel.
4 Now, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it and built forts against it all around.
5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 Now, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no more food for the people of the land.
7 Then, the city was broken up. And all the men of war fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (though the Chaldeans were near the city, all around). And they went by way of the wilderness.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and took Zedekiah in the desert of Jericho. And all the army was scattered from him.
9 Then they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babel, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babel killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 Then, he put out the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babel bound him in chains and carried him to Babel and put him in prison until the day of his death.
12 Now, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel) came Nebuzaradan, chief steward, who stood before the king of Babel in Jerusalem
13 and burnt the House of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem. And he burnt all the great houses with fire.
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the chief steward broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
15 Then, Nebuzaradan the chief steward carried away captive some of the poor people, and the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who had fled and fallen to the king of Babel, with the rest of the multitude.
16 But Nebuzaradan the chief steward left some of the poor of the land to dress the vines and to till the land.
17 Also, the bronze pillars that were in the House of the LORD, and the pedestals, and the bronze sea that was in the House of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke. And they carried all their bronze to Babel.
18 Also, the pots and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the incense dishes, and all the bronze vessels with which they ministered, they took away.
19 And the bowls and the ashpans and the basins and the pots and the candlesticks and the incense dishes and the cups—all that was of gold and all that was of silver—the chief steward took away
20 with the two pillars, one sea, and twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases which King Solomon had had made for the House of the LORD. The bronze of all these vessels was without measure.
21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. It measured twelve cubits around and its thickness was four fingers (it was hollow).
22 And a capital of bronze was upon it. And the height of one capital was five cubits with a network of pomegranates upon the capitals, all around, all of bronze. The second pillar and the pomegranates were also like these.
23 And there were ninety-six pomegranates per side. All the pomegranates, all around the network, were one hundred.
24 And the chief steward took Seraiah the High Priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door.
25 He also took a eunuch out of the city who had oversight of the men of war, and seven men who were in the king’s presence who were found in the city, and the principal quartermaster of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
26 Nebuzaradan, the chief steward, took them and brought them to the king of Babel, to Riblah.
27 And the king of Babel struck them and killed them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus, Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
28 These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year: three thousand twenty-three Jews.
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two people.
30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief steward carried away captive seven hundred forty-five Jewish people. All together there were four thousand six hundred.
31 And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-Merodach king of Babel, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,
32 and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babel,
33 and changed his prison garments. And he regularly ate bread before him, all the days of his life.
34 His ration was a continual ration, given to him by the king of Babel, a portion each day, all the days of his life, until he died.
31 In You, O LORD, have I put my trust. Let me never be confounded. Deliver me in Your righteousness.
2 Bow down Your ear to me. Make haste to deliver me. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
3 For You are my rock and my fortress. Therefore, direct me and guide me for Your Name’s sake.
4 Draw me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me. For You are my strength.
5 Into Your hand I commend My spirit. For You have redeemed me, O LORD God of Truth.
6 I have hated those who give themselves to deceitful vanities; for I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy. For You have seen my trouble. You have known my soul in adversities.
8 And You have not shut me up in the hand of the enemy but have set my feet in an open space.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble. My eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.
10 For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength fails because of my pain; and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all my enemies — but especially among my neighbors — and a fear to my acquaintances. Who, seeing me in the street, fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the railing of great men. Fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me and consulted to take my life.
14 But I trusted in You, O LORD. I said, “You are my God.”
15 My times are in Your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
16 Make Your face to shine upon Your servant. Save me through Your mercy.
17 Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon You. Let the wicked be put to confusion, to silence, in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips which cruelly, proudly, and spitefully speak against the righteous be made dumb.
19 How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You; and done to those who trust in You before the sons of men!
20 You hide them from the pride of men in the secret place of Your presence. You keep them secretly in Your Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD. For He has shown His marvelous kindness toward me in a strong city.
22 Though I said in my haste, “I am cast out of Your sight!” Still, You heard the voice of my prayer when I cried to You.
23 Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful and abundantly repays the proud.
24 All you who trust in the LORD, be strong; and He shall establish your heart. A Psalm of David, to give instruction.
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