M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
11 But King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, the women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and Heth
2 (the nations of which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, ‘Do not go in to them or let them come in to you. For surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.’). To them Solomon joined in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives (princesses) and three hundred concubines. And his wives perverted his heart.
4 For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, so that his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the god of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 So Solomon worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD, but continued not to follow the LORD, as David his father.
7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab (on the mountain that is opposite Jerusalem), and to Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and offered to their gods.
9 Therefore, the LORD was angry with Solomon, because he had turned his heart from the LORD God of Israel, Who had appeared to him twice
10 and had given him a charge concerning this thing, that he should not follow other gods. But he did not keep that which the LORD had Commanded him.
11 Therefore, the LORD said to Solomon, “Because this has been done by you, and you have not kept My Covenant and My Statutes which I Commanded you, I will surely tear your kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
12 “Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, because of David your father. But I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
13 “However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but will give one tribe to your son, because of David my servant and because of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
14 Then the LORD stirred up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite, of the king’s seed, who was in Edom.
15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had stricken all the males in Edom, and had gone up to bury the dead
16 (Joab and all Israel had remained there for six months until he had destroyed all the males in Edom),
17 then this Hadad fled, and certain other Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt (Hadad still being a little child).
18 And they arose out of Midian and came to Paran and took men with them out of Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and apportioned him food and gave him land.
19 So, Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh. And he gave him as a wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the Queen.
20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath, his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab, the captain of the army, was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, so that I may go to my own country.”
22 But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you would go to your own country like this?” And he answered, “Nothing. But let me go anyway.”
23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who fled from his lord Hadadezer, king of Zobah.
24 And he gathered men to him and had been captain over the company when David killed them. And they went to Damascus and dwelt there. And they made him king in Damascus.
25 Therefore, he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon. Besides the evil that Hadad had done, he also abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram.
26 And Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant (whose mother was called Zeruah, a widow) lifted up his hand against the king.
27 And this was the reason that he lifted up his hand against the king: When Solomon built Millo, he repaired the broken places of the City of David, his father.
28 And this man, Jeroboam, was a man of strength and courage. And Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, made him overseer of all the labor of the House of Joseph.
29 And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the road, having a new garment on him. And those two were alone in the field.
30 Then Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces,
31 and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself! For thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hands of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you.
32 ‘But he shall have one tribe for My servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem the city, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,
33 ‘because they have forsaken Me and have worshipped Ashtoreth, the god of the Sidonians, and Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in My ways (to do right in My Eyes and My Statutes and My Laws) as David his father.
34 ‘But I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand. For I will make him prince all his life long, for David my servant’s sake, whom I have chosen, who kept My Commandments and My Statutes.
35 ‘But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and will give it to you, the ten tribes.
36 ‘And to his son I will give one tribe, so that David My servant may have a light always before Me in Jerusalem the city, which I have chosen for Myself, to put My Name there.
37 ‘And I will take you. And you shall reign as your heart desires, and shall be king over Israel.
38 ‘And if you listen to all that I Command you, and will walk in My ways, and do right in My sight, to keep My Statutes and My Commandments as David my servant did, then will I be with you and build you a sure House, as I built to David. And will give Israel to you.
39 ‘And I will afflict the seed of David for this, but not forever.’”
40 Therefore, Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
41 And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
42 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
43 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, his father. And Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his place.
2 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any compassion and affection,
2 fulfill my joy; so that you are like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one judgment.
3 So that nothing is done through self-interest or empty pride. But that in humility, everyone thinks others better than himself.
4 Do not be preoccupied with your own things, but rather with the things of others.
5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus;
6 Who, being in the form of God, did not eagerly desire equality with God as a prize.
7 But He emptied Himself and took on the form of a servant (and the likeness of a man, having been made).
8 He humbled Himself and became obedient to the death - even the death of the cross.
9 Therefore, God has highly exalted Him and given Him a Name above every name,
10 so that at the Name of Jesus, every knee should bow—in Heaven, and on Earth, and under the Earth—
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me - not only in my presence, but now much more so in my absence - work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God who works in you - both in your will and in your works - according to His good pleasure.
14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
15 so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a perverted and crooked nation (among whom you shine as lights in the world).
16 Hold forth the Word of life, so that I may rejoice on the day of Christ that I have not run for nothing or labored for nothing.
17 Indeed, and though I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all!
18 And likewise also, you be glad and rejoice with me!
19 And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I know your state.
20 For I have no one of like mind who will faithfully care for your matters.
21 For all seek their own, and not that which is Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him who, as a child with his father, has served with me in the Gospel.
23 Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I know how it will go with me.
24 And I trust in the Lord that I, myself, shall also come shortly.
25 But I thought it necessary to send to you my brother, fellow laborer, and fellow soldier, Epaphroditus (who is now your messenger and minister to my needs).
26 For he longed after all of you, and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick.
27 And no doubt he was sick, very near to death. But God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 Therefore, I sent him all the more speedily, so that when you would see him again you might rejoice and I might be the less sorrowful.
29 Therefore, receive him in the Lord with all joy. And value such men highly.
30 Because he was near death for the work of Christ and did not regard his life, to fulfill that service which was lacking on your part toward me.
41 Afterward, he brought me to the Temple and measured the posts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side (the width of the Tabernacle).
2 And the width of the entry was ten cubits. And the sides of the entry were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side. And he measured its length (forty cubits) and width (twenty cubits).
3 Then went he in and measured the posts of the entry (two cubits) and the entry (six cubits) and the width of the entry (seven cubits).
4 So he measured its length and the width before the Temple (twenty cubits by twenty cubits), and he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
5 Afterward, he measured the wall of the House (six cubits) and the width of every chamber (four cubits) all around the House, on every side.
6 And the chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story. And they entered into the walls made for the chambers, which was all around the House, so that the posts might be fastened to them and not be fastened to the wall of the House.
7 And it was large, and went around, mounting upward to the chambers. For the stairs of the House mounted upward, all around the House. Therefore, the House was larger further up. So, they went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by way of the middle.
8 I also saw the House had a height all around as the foundations for the chambers. It had a full reed of six great cubits.
9 The thickness of the wall which was for the outer chamber was five cubits. And that which remained was the place of the inner chambers.
10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits, all around the House on every side.
11 And the doors of the chambers were toward the place that remained, one door toward the North and another door toward the South. And the width of the place that remained was five cubits all around.
12 Now the building that was in front of the separate place, toward the West corner, was seventy cubits wide. And the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around. And the length was ninety cubits.
13 So he measured the House: a hundred cubits long. And the separate place and the building, with its walls, were a hundred cubits long.
14 Also, the width of the front of the House, and of the separate place toward the East, was a hundred cubits.
15 And he measured the length of the building opposite the separate place which was behind it, and the chambers on one side and on the other side (a hundred cubits), as well as the Temple inside and the arches of the court,
16 The posts and the narrow windows and the chambers, all around, on three sides opposite the posts, were paneled with cedar wood all around and from the ground up to the windows. And the windows were covered
17 from above the door to the inner House and outside, and by the entire wall, all around, inside and outside, by measure.
18 And it was made with Cherubim and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a Cherub and a Cherub. And each Cherub had two faces,
19 so that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this throughout all the House, all around.
20 From the ground to above the door were Cherubim and palm trees, made as in the wall of the Temple.
21 The posts of the Temple were squared. Thus, their appearance was similar to the form of the Sanctuary.
22 The Altar of wood was three cubits high, and its length was two cubits. And its corners and its length and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the Table that shall be before the LORD.”
23 And the Temple and the Sanctuary had two doors.
24 And the doors each had two leaves (two turning leaves), two leaves for one door and two leaves for another door.
25 And upon the doors of the Temple there were made Cherubim and palm trees, like what was made upon the walls. And there were thick planks upon the front of the outside porch.
26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on one side and on the other side, by the sides of the porch, and upon the sides of the House and thresholds.
92 It is a good thing to praise the LORD, and to sing to Your Name, O Most High,
2 to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your truth in the night,
3 upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the viol, with the song upon the harp.
4 For You, LORD, have made me glad by Your works; and I will rejoice in the works of Your hands.
5 O LORD, how glorious are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.
6 An unwise man does not know it; and a fool does not understand this:
7 that when the wicked grow as the grass and all the workers of wickedness flourish, they shall be destroyed forever.
8 But You, O LORD, are Most High forevermore.
9 For lo, Your enemies, O LORD. For lo, Your enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall be destroyed.
10 But You shall exalt my horn, like the unicorns, and I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Also, my eye shall see my desire against my enemies; and my ears shall hear my wish against the wicked who rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree and shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Such as are planted in the House of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age. They shall be fat and flourishing,
15 to declare that the LORD my Rock is righteous and that no iniquity is in Him.
93 The LORD reigns and is clothed with majesty. The LORD is clothed and girded with power. Also, the world shall be established, so that it cannot be moved.
2 Your throne is established of old. You are from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
4 The waves of the sea are marvelous through the noise of many waters. The LORD on High is more mighty.
5 Your testimonies are very sure. Holiness becomes Your House, O LORD, forever.
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