M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
13 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
3 And Abijah set the battle in formation with the army of valiant men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men. Jeroboam also set the battle in formation against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men who were strong and valiant.
4 And Abijah stood up upon Mount Zemaraim, which is on Mount Ephraim, and said, “O Jeroboam and all Israel! Hear me!
5 “Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel has given the kingdom over Israel to David forever, to him and to his sons, by a covenant of salt?
6 “And Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David, has risen up and has rebelled against his lord!
7 “And vain men and wicked have gathered to him and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon! For Rehoboam was a child and tender-hearted and could not resist them!
8 “Now, therefore, do you think that you are able to resist against the kingdom of the LORD, in the hands of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude? And the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you?
9 “Have you not driven away the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made yourselves priests like the people of other countries? Whoever comes to consecrate with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are not gods!
10 “But we belong to the LORD our God and have not forsaken Him! And the priests, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, minister to the LORD in office!
11 “And they burn Burnt Offerings and sweet incense to the LORD every morning and every evening. And the Bread is set in order upon the pure Table, and the Candlestick of gold with its Lamps, to burn every evening! For we keep the watch of the LORD our God! But you have forsaken Him!
12 “And behold! This God is with us as a Captain! And His Priests are with the sounding trumpets, to cry an alarm against you! O, you children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers! For you shall not prosper!”
13 But while they were before Judah, Jeroboam sent an ambush around, to come up behind them. And the ambush was now behind them.
14 Then Judah looked, and behold, the battle was in front and behind them. And they cried to the LORD. And the priests blew with the trumpets.
15 And the men of Judah gave a shout. And as the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam (and also Israel) before Abijah and Judah.
16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah. And God delivered them into their hand.
17 And Abijah and his people killed them in a great slaughter, so that five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down wounded.
18 So, the children of Israel were subjugated at that time. And the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel and its villages, and Jeshanah with her villages, and Ephron with her villages.
20 And Jeroboam regained no strength in the days of Abijah. But the LORD plagued him, and he died.
21 So, Abijah grew mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
22 The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his manners and his sayings, are written in the story of the Prophet Iddo.
3 And write to the angel of the Church which is at Sardis: “These things say He Who has the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars: ‘I know your works. For you have the reputation that you live, but you are dead.
2 ‘Be awake! And strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die! For I have not found your work perfect before God.
3 ‘Therefore, remember what you have received and heard. And hold fast and repent. If, therefore, you will not watch, I will come on you as a thief. And you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.
4 ‘Notwithstanding, you still have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they shall walk with Me in white. For they are worthy.
5 ‘He who overcomes shall be clothed in white array. And I will not blot his name out from the Book of Life. But I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.
6 ‘Let him who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”
7 “And write to the angel of the Church which is of Philadelphia: ‘These things say He Who is Holy and True; Who has the key of David which opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.
8 ‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door. And no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My Name.
9 ‘Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan; who call themselves Jews and are not; but lie. Behold, I say, I will make them come and worship before your feet. And they shall know that I have loved you.
10 ‘Because you have kept the Word of My patience, therefore I will deliver you from the hour of trial, which will come upon all the world to try those who dwell upon the Earth.
11 ‘Behold, I come shortly. Hold that which you have, so that no one take your crown.
12 ‘He who overcomes I will make a pillar in the Temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the Name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is the New Jerusalem; which comes down out of Heaven from My God. And I will write upon him My new Name.
13 ‘Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”
14 “And to the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write: ‘These things says the Amen; the faithful and true Witness; the beginning of the creatures of God.
15 ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I desire that you were either cold or hot.
16 ‘Therefore, because you are lukewarm - and neither cold nor hot – I am about to spew you out of My mouth.
17 ‘For you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing,” and do not know how wretched and miserable you are, and poor and blind and naked.
18 ‘I counsel you to buy from Me gold tried by the fire, so that you may be made rich; and white raiment, so that you may be clothed and that your filthy nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
19 ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent.
20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.
21 ‘To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, even as I overcame and sit with My Father on His throne.
22 ‘Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”
1 In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, the first day of the month, came the Word of the LORD (by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai) to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, a prince of Judah, and to Jehoshua, the son of Jehozadak the High Priest, saying,
2 “Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, saying: ‘This people says the time has not yet come that the LORD’s House should be built.’”
3 Then came the Word of the LORD by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai, saying:
4 “Is it time for yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this House lies waste?
5 “Now therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Consider your own ways in your hearts.
6 ‘You have sown much and bring in little. You eat but you do not have enough. You drink but you are not filled. You clothe yourself but you are not warm. And he who earns wages puts the wages into a broken bag.’
7 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Consider your own ways in your hearts.
8 ‘Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build this House. And I will be favorable in it. And I will be glorified,’ says the LORD.
9 ‘You looked for much. And lo, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew upon it. And why—' says the LORD of Hosts, ‘because of My House that is desolate. And you turn every man to his own house.
10 ‘Therefore, the sky above you stopped itself from dew. And the earth stopped her fruit.
11 ‘And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, upon all that the ground brings forth, upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of the hands.’”
12 When Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, with all the remnant of the people, heard the voice of the LORD their God and the Words of the Prophet Haggai (as the LORD their God had sent him), then the people feared before the LORD.
13 Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, spoke the LORD’s message to the people, saying, “‘I am with you,’ says the LORD.”
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, a prince of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and did the work in the House of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
2 And on the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. And the mother of Jesus was there.
2 And Jesus was also invited, with His disciples, to the marriage.
3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what is that to us? My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
6 Now there were set there, six water pots of stone, for the purifying of the Jews, containing 20 to 30 gallons apiece.
7 And Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” Then they filled them up to the brim.
8 Then He said to them, “Draw from them now, and take it to the master of the feast.” So, they brought it.
9 Now when the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, (for he knew not from where it came; but the servants who drew the water knew) the master of the feast called the bridegroom,
10 and said to him, “All men at the beginning set out good wine; and when all have drunk freely, then that which is worse. But you have withheld the good wine until now!”
11 Jesus did this beginning of miracles in Cana of Galilee and showed forth His Glory. And His disciples believed in Him.
12 After that, He went down into Capernaum, He and his mother, and His brothers, and His disciples. And they did not stay there long.
13 For the Jews’ Passover was at hand. Therefore, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And He found in the Temple those who sold oxen, and sheep, and doves. And moneychangers were sitting there.
15 Then He made a whip of small cords and drove them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and oxen; and poured out the changers’ money; and overthrew their tables.
16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My father’s house a house of merchandise!”
17 And His disciples remembered that it was written, “The zeal of Your House has devoured me.”
18 Then answered the Jews, and said to Him, “What sign do You show us saying You may do these things?”
19 Jesus answered, and said to them, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
20 Then the Jews said, “Forty-six years it took to build this Temple, and You will raise it up in three days?”
21 But He spoke of the Temple of His Body.
22 Therefore, as soon as He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them. And they believed the Scriptures, and the Word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when He was at Jerusalem, at the Passover, at the feast, many believed in His Name when they saw the miracles which He did.
24 But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all,
25 and had no need for anyone to testify concerning man. He knew what was in a man.
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