M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

27 Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc.

² And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.

³ He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

⁴ Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.

⁵ Ho fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and third year.

⁶ And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God.

⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.

⁸ He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

⁹ And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.

28 Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord as David his father had done,

² But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.

³ It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and consecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.

⁴ He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

⁵ And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.

⁶ For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men: because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers.

⁷ At the same time Zechri a powerful man of Ephraim, slew Maasias the king's son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana who was next to the king.

⁸ And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria.

⁹ At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven.

¹⁰ Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and Jerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done: for you have sinned in this against the Lord your God.

¹¹ But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you.

¹² Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of Sellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from the war.

¹³ And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel.

¹⁴ So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken, before the princes and all the multitude.

¹⁵ And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shed them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria.

¹⁶ At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking help.

¹⁷ And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great booty.

¹⁸ The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the plains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon, and Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages, and they dwelt in them.

¹⁹ For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.

²⁰ And he brought, against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance.

²¹ And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him nothing.

²² Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,

²³ Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

²⁴ Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.

²⁵ And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn frankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath.

²⁶ But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

²⁷ And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.

14 And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

² And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder; and the voice which I heard, was as the voice of harpers, harping on their harps.

³ And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the ancients; and no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand, who were purchased from the earth.

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb:

⁵ And in their mouth there was found no lie; for they are without spot before the throne of God.

⁶ And I saw another angel flying through the midst of heaven, having the eternal gospel, to preach unto them that sit upon the earth, and over every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people:

⁷ Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord, and give him honour, because the hour of his judgment is come; and adore ye him, that made heaven and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.

⁸ And another angel followed, saying: That great Babylon is fallen, is fallen; which made all nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

⁹ And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If any man shall adore the beast and his image, and receive his character in his forehead, or in his hand;

¹⁰ He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels, and in the sight of the Lamb.

¹¹ And the smoke of their torments shall ascend up for ever and ever: neither have they rest day nor night, who have adored the beast, and his image, and whoever receiveth the character of his name.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow them.

¹⁴ And I saw, and behold a white cloud; and upon the cloud one sitting like to the Son of man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

¹⁵ And another angel came out from the temple crying with a loud voice to him that sat upon the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle, and reap, because the hour is come to reap: for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

¹⁶ And he that sat on the cloud thrust his sickle into the earth, and the earth was reaped.

¹⁷ And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire; and he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth; because the grapes thereof are ripe.

¹⁹ And the angel thrust in his sharp sickle into the earth, and gathered the vineyard of the earth, and cast it into the great press of the wrath of God:

²⁰ And the press was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the press, up to the horses' bridles, for a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

10 Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will make snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

² For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.

³ My wrath is kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit upon the buck goats: for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock, the house of Juda, and hath made them as the horse of his glory in the battle.

⁴ Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out of him the bow of battle, out of him every exacter together.

⁵ And they shall be as mighty men, treading under foot the mire of the ways in battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders of horses shall be confounded.

⁶ And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph: and I will bring them back again, because I will have mercy on them: and they shall be as they were when I had cast them off, for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them.

⁷ And they shall be as the valiant men of Ephraim, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: and their children shall see, and shall rejoice, and their heart shall be joyful in the Lord.

⁸ I will whistle for them, and I will gather them together, because I have redeemed them: and I will multiply them as they were multiplied before.

⁹ And I will sow them among peoples: and from afar they shall remember me: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

¹⁰ And I will bring them back out of the land of Egypt, and will gather them from among the Assyrians: and will bring them to the land of Galaad, and Libanus, and place shall not be found for them.

¹¹ And he shall pass over the strait of the sea, and shall strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall be confounded, and the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

¹² I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in his name, saith the Lord.

13 Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

² And when supper was done, (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,)

³ Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and goeth to God;

⁴ He riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments, and having taken a towel, girded himself.

⁵ After that, he putteth water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

⁶ He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

⁷ Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

⁸ Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.

⁹ Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.

¹⁰ Jesus saith to him: He that is washed, needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all.

¹¹ For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said: You are not all clean.

¹² Then after he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you?

¹³ You call me Master, and Lord; and you say well, for so I am.

¹⁴ If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet.

¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also.

¹⁶ Amen, amen I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.

¹⁷ If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

¹⁸ I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me, shall lift up his heel against me.

¹⁹ At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.

²⁰ Amen, amen I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

²¹ When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit; and he testified, and said: Amen, amen I say to you, one of you shall betray me.

²² The disciples therefore looked one upon another, doubting of whom he spoke.

²³ Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

²⁴ Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him: Who is it of whom he speaketh?

²⁵ He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus, saith to him: Lord, who is it?

²⁶ Jesus answered: He it is to whom I shall reach bread dipped. And when he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

²⁷ And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to him: That which thou dost, do quickly.

²⁸ Now no man at the table knew to what purpose he said this unto him.

²⁹ For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival day: or that he should give something to the poor.

³⁰ He therefore having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.

³¹ When he therefore was gone out, Jesus said: Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

³² If God be glorified in him, God also will glorify him in himself; and immediately will he glorify him.

³³ Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me; and as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

³⁵ By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

³⁶ Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow hereafter.

³⁷ Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

³⁸ Jesus answered him: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Amen, amen I say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice.