M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

Chapter 3

Defeat of Og. ¹ Then we turned and proceeded up the road to Bashan. But Og, king of Bashan,^(A) came out against us with all his people to give battle at Edrei. ² The Lord said to me, Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your power with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. ³ And thus the Lord, our God, delivered into our power also Og, king of Bashan, with all his people. We defeated him so completely that we left him no survivor. ⁴ At that time we captured all his cities; there was no town we did not take: sixty cities in all, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan— ⁵ all these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars—besides a great number of unwalled towns. ^6 (B)As we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon, so also here we put all the towns under the ban, men, women and children; ⁷ but all the livestock and the spoils of each city we took as plunder for ourselves.

⁸ And so at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan the territory from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir), ¹⁰ all the towns of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (Og, king of Bashan, was the last remaining survivor of the Rephaim. He had a bed of iron,^[a] nine regular cubits long and four wide, which is still preserved in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)^(C)

Allotment of the Conquered Lands. ^12 (D)As for the land we took possession of at that time, I gave Reuben and Gad the territory from Aroer, on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, halfway up into the highlands of Gilead, with its cities. ¹³ The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole Argob region, all that part of Bashan, was once called a land of the Rephaim.^{(E) 14} Jair, a Manassite,^(F) took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and named them—Bashan, that is—after himself, Havvoth-jair, the name it bears today.) ¹⁵ To Machir^[b] I gave Gilead, ¹⁶ and to Reuben and Gad the territory from Gilead to the Wadi Arnon—the middle of the wadi being its boundary—and to the Wadi Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites, ¹⁷ as well as the Arabah with the Jordan and its banks from Chinnereth^[c] to the Salt Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

^18 (G)At that time I charged you: The Lord, your God, has given you this land as your possession. But all your troops equipped for battle must cross over in the vanguard of your fellow Israelites. ¹⁹ But your wives and children, as well as your livestock, of which I know you have a large number, shall remain behind in the towns I have given you, ²⁰ until the Lord has settled your relatives as well, and they too possess the land which the Lord, your God, will give them on the other side of the Jordan. Then you may all return to the possessions I have given you.

²¹ And I charged Joshua as well, “Your own eyes have seen all that the Lord, your God, has done to both these kings; so, too, will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you will cross over. ²² Do not fear them, for it is the Lord, your God, who will fight for you.”^(H)

Moses Excluded from the Promised Land. ^23 (I)It was then that I entreated the Lord, ²⁴ “Lord God, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. What god in heaven or on earth can perform deeds and powerful acts like yours? ²⁵ Ah, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that fine hill country, and the Lebanon!” ²⁶ But the Lord was angry with me on your account^[d] and would not hear me.^(J) The Lord said to me, Enough! Speak to me no more of this. ²⁷ Go up to the top of Pisgah and look out to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east. Look well, for you shall not cross this Jordan.^{(K) 28} Commission Joshua,^(L) and encourage and strengthen him, for it is he who will cross at the head of this people and he who will give them possession of the land you are to see.

²⁹ So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

Psalm 85^[a]

Prayer for Divine Favor

¹ For the leader. A psalm of the Korahites.

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Chapter 31

Against the Egyptian Alliance

⁶ Return, O Israelites, to him whom you have utterly deserted.^{(F) 7} On that day each one of you shall reject his idols of silver and gold, which your hands have made.^(G)

I. Prologue^[a]

Chapter 1

¹ The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show his servants what must happen soon. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,^{(A) 2} who gives witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ by reporting what he saw. ³ Blessed is the one^[b] who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to this prophetic message and heed what is written in it, for the appointed time is near.^(B)

II. Letters to the Churches of Asia

Greeting.^{[c] 4} John, to the seven churches in Asia:^[d] grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne,^{(C) 5} and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us^[e] from our sins by his blood,^{(D) 6} who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to him be glory and power forever [and ever]. Amen.^(E)

⁸ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,”^[f] says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.”^(G)

The First Vision.^{[g] 9} I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos^[h] because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus. ¹⁰ I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day^[i] and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, ¹¹ which said, “Write on a scroll^[j] what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” ^12 [k]Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands ¹³ and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man,^[l] wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest.^{(H) 14} The hair of his head was as white as white wool or as snow,^[m] and his eyes were like a fiery flame. ¹⁵ His feet were like polished brass refined in a furnace,^[n] and his voice was like the sound of rushing water. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars.^[o] A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest.^(I)

¹⁷ When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead.^[p] He touched me with his right hand and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,^{(J) 18} the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.^{[q] 19} Write down, therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.^{[r] 20} This is the secret meaning^[s] of the seven stars you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.