M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

Genealogy of David and Solomon^(A)

3 These are David’s descendants who were born to him in Hebron: Amnon his firstborn by Ahinoam the Jezreelite, Daniel his second born by Abigail the Carmelite, ² Absalom his third born by Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur, Adonijah his fourth born by^[a] Haggith, ³ Shephatiah his fifth born by Abital, and Ithream his sixth born by his wife Eglah. ⁴ These six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months.

He reigned 33 years in Jerusalem. ⁵ These four children^[b] were born to David^[c] by Bath-shua^[d] daughter of Ammiel while he was living^[e] in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, ⁶ followed by nine more: Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, ⁷ Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, ⁸ Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet. ⁹ All these were David’s sons, besides children born to his mistresses. Tamar was their sister.

¹⁰ Solomon’s descendants included Rehoboam, his son Abijah, his son Asa, his son Jehoshaphat, ¹¹ his son Joram, his son Ahaziah, his son Joash, ¹² his son Amaziah, his son Azariah, his son Jotham, ¹³ his son Ahaz, his son Hezekiah, his son Manasseh, ¹⁴ his son Amon, and his son Josiah.

¹⁵ Josiah’s descendants included Johanan his firstborn, his second born Jehoiakim, his third born Zedekiah, and his fourth born Shallum.

¹⁶ Jehoiakim’s descendants included his son Jeconiah, and his son Zedekiah.

¹⁷ The descendants of Jeconiah, who was taken^[f] captive to Babylon^[g], included his son Shealtiel, ¹⁸ Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

¹⁹ Pedaiah’s descendants included Zerubbabel and Shimei.

Zerubbabel’s descendants included Meshullam and Hananiah, along with Shelomith their sister ²⁰ and five others:^[h] Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed.

²¹ Hananiah’s descendants included Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son^[i] Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, and his son Shecaniah.

²² Shecaniah’s son was Shemaiah, and the six^[j] sons of Shemaiah were Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat.

²³ The three sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam.

²⁴ The seven sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani.

Genealogy of Judah

4 Judah’s descendants were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

² Shobal’s son Reaiah fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.

³ These were the descendants of^[k] the ancestor of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and their sister’s name was Hazzelelponi.

⁴ Penuel fathered Gedor and Ezer fathered Hushah.

These were the descendants of Hur, Ephrathah’s firstborn, who fathered Bethlehem: ⁵ Tekoa’s father Ashhur had two wives, Helah and Naarah. ⁶ Naarah bore him these sons: Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari.^[l]

⁷ The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar,^[m] and Ethnan.

⁸ Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Harum’s son Aharhel.

⁹ Jabez enjoyed more honor than his relatives—his mother named him Jabez, she said, “because I bore him in pain.”^[n]

¹⁰ Later on, Jabez called on the God of Israel, asking him,^[o] “…whether you would bless me again and again, enlarge my territory, keep your power^[p] with me, keep me from evil, and keep me from harm!” And God granted what he had requested.

¹¹ Chelub, Shuhah’s brother, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. ¹² Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, who fathered Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

¹³ Kenaz’s descendants were Othniel and Seraiah.

Othniel’s descendants were Hathath ¹⁴ and Meonothai, who fathered Ophrah.

Seraiah fathered Joab, who fathered the Ge-harashim,^[q] because they became artisans.

¹⁵ The descendants of Jephunneh’s son Caleb were Iru, Elah, and Naam.

Elah’s son^[r] was Kenaz.

¹⁶ Jehallelel’s descendants were Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.

¹⁷ Ezrah’s descendants were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon.

Mered’s wife^[s] conceived Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, who fathered Eshtemoa. ¹⁸ Then his Judean wife bore Jered, who fathered Gedor and then Heber, who fathered Soco and Jekuthiel, who fathered Zanoah. These are the descendants of Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married.

¹⁹ The descendants of Hodiah’s wife, Naham’s sister, fathered Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

²⁰ Shimon’s descendants were Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon.

Ishi’s descendants were Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

²¹ The descendants of Judah’s son Shelah were Er, who fathered Lecah, Laadah (who fathered Mareshah and the families who belonged to the guild^[t] of linen workers at Beth-ashbea), ²² Jokim, the men who lived in Cozeba, Joash, and Saraph (who married Moabite families),^[u] and Jashubi-lehem.^[v] (The records are ancient.)^{[w] 23} These people^[x] were potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah in service to their king, who lived there.

Genealogy of Simeon^(B)

²⁴ Simeon’s descendants were Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul, ²⁵ his son Shallum, his son Mibsam, and his son Mishma.

²⁶ Mishma’s descendants were his son Hammuel, his son Zaccur, and his son Shimei.

²⁷ Shimei had 16 sons and six daughters, but his relatives did not have many children, nor did their entire family multiply like the Judeans did. ²⁸ They lived in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, ²⁹ Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, ³⁰ Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, ³¹ Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David began to reign.

³² Their cities were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, for a total of^[y] five cities, ³³ along with all their settlements that surrounded these cities as far as Baal—this is their settlement history.^[z]

They kept this genealogical record for themselves: ³⁴ Meshobab, Jamlech, Amaziah’s son Joshah, ³⁵ Joel, Joshibiah’s son Jehu (who was the grandson of Seraiah and great-grandson of Asiel), ³⁶ Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷ Shiphi’s son Ziza (who was the grandson of Shiphi, who was fathered by Allon, who was fathered by Jedaiah, who was fathered by Shimri, who was fathered by Shemaiah)— ³⁸ these people,^[aa] enumerated by name, were leaders in their respective families, and their clans grew to be very abundant.

³⁹ They journeyed as far as the entrance of Gedor on the east side of the valley in order to find pasture for their flocks. ⁴⁰ They discovered abundant and excellent grazing lands there, where the land was very broad, secure, and tranquil, because the former inhabitants there were descendants of Ham. ⁴¹ Later on, during the reign^[ab] of King Hezekiah of Judah, these people,^[ac] enumerated by name, came and attacked both their homes^[ad] and the Meunim who had settled there and who remain exterminated to this day. They settled down there, taking their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. ⁴² Some of them—that is, 500 Simeonite men—went to Mount Seir.^[ae] Under the leadership of Ishi’s sons Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, ⁴³ they destroyed the survivors of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

The Earthly Sanctuary and Its Ritual

9 Now even the first covenant^[a] had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. ² For a tent was set up, and in the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the bread of the Presence.^[b] This was called the Holy Place. ³ Behind the second curtain was the part of the tent called the Most Holy Place, ⁴ which had the gold altar for incense and the Ark of the Covenant completely covered with gold. In it were the gold jar holding the manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the Tablets of the Covenant. ⁵ Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of atonement. (We cannot discuss these things in detail now.)

⁶ When everything had been arranged like this, the priests always went into the first part of the tent to perform their duties. ⁷ But only the high priest went^[c] into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance. ⁸ The Holy Spirit was indicating by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first part of the tent was still standing. ⁹ This illustration for today indicates that the gifts and sacrifices being offered could not clear the conscience of a worshiper, ¹⁰ since they deal only with food, drink, and various washings, which are required for the body until the time when things would be set right.

The Messiah Has Offered a Superior Sacrifice

¹¹ But when the Messiah^[d] came as a high priest of the good things that have come,^[e] he went^[f] through the greater and more perfect tent that was not made by human^[g] hands and that is not a part of this creation. ¹² Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are unclean purifies them physically, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of the Messiah,^[h] who through the eternal Spirit^[i] offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our^[j] consciences from dead actions so that we may serve the living God!

The Messiah is the Mediator of a New Covenant

¹⁵ This is why the Messiah^[k] is the mediator of a new covenant; so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance promised them, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the offenses committed under the first covenant. ¹⁶ For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be established. ¹⁷ For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect as long as the one who made it is alive. ¹⁸ This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. ¹⁹ For after every commandment in the Law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats,^[l] together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people, ²⁰ saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God ordained for you.”^{[m] 21} In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and everything used in worship. ²² In fact, under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of the blood there is no forgiveness.

The Messiah’s Perfect Sacrifice

²³ Thus it was necessary for these earthly^[n] copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices,^[o] but the heavenly things themselves are made clean^[p] with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For the Messiah^[q] did not go into a sanctuary made by human^[r] hands that is merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear now in God’s presence on our behalf. ²⁵ Nor did he go into heaven^[s] to sacrifice himself again and again, the way the high priest goes into the Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. ²⁶ Then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the creation of the world. But now, at the end of the ages, he has appeared once for all to remove sin by his sacrifice. ²⁷ Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,^{[t] 28} so the Messiah^[u] was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin,^[v] but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.

A Higher Standard of Accountability

3 “Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken about you, people of Israel. It concerns the entire family that I brought from the land of Egypt:

Seven Questions to Ponder

The Lord’s Purposes

Praise to God the Help of Israel

Praise for God’s Provision