M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
8 Now after this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them. And David took the bridle of bondage out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 And he struck Moab, and measured them with a rope and cast them down to the ground. He measured them with two ropes to put them to death, and with one full rope to keep them alive. So, the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
3 David also struck Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
4 And David took a thousand seven hundred horsemen from them, and twenty thousand footmen. And David hamstrung almost all the chariot horses, only sparing enough of them for a hundred chariots.
5 Then the Aramites of Dammesek came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah. But David killed twenty-two thousand of the Aramites.
6 And David put a garrison in Aram of Dammesek. And the Aramites became servants to David and brought gifts. And the LORD saved David wherever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold that belonged to the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
8 And out of Betah and Berothai (cities of Hadadezer), king David brought exceedingly much bronze.
9 Then Toi, king of Hamath, heard how David had stricken all the army of Hadadezer.
10 Therefore, Toi sent Joram, his son, to king David, to greet him and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and beaten him (for Hadadezer had warred with Toi). He brought vessels of silver with him, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.
11 And king David dedicated them to the LORD with the silver and gold that he had dedicated from all the nations which he had subdued:
12 from Aram, Moab, the children of Ammon, the Philistines, Amalek, and the spoil of Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
13 So David got a name after he had returned and had killed eighteen thousand of the Aramites in the Valley of Salt.
14 And he put a garrison in Edom. He put soldiers throughout all Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the LORD preserved David wherever he went.
15 Thus David reigned over all Israel and executed judgment and justice to all his people.
16 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was over the army. And Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was recorder.
17 And Zadok, the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were the priests, and Seraiah the scribe.
18 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and David’s sons were chief rulers.
9 And David said, “Is there any man still left of the House of Saul on whom I may show mercy for Jonathan’s sake?”
2 And there was, of the household of Saul, a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him to David, the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” And he said, “I am your servant.”
3 Then the King said, “Is there no one left of the House of Saul on whom I may show the mercy of God?” Ziba then answered the king, “Jonathan still has a son who is lame in his feet.”
4 Then the king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo Debar.”
5 Then king David sent and took him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo Debar.
6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face and did reverence. And David said, “Mephibosheth?” And he answered, “Behold your servant.”
7 Then David said to him, “Do not fear. For I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore all the fields of Saul, your father, to you. And you shall eat bread at my table continually.”
8 And he bowed himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you would look upon such a dead dog as I am?”
9 Then the king called Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “I have given your master’s son all that belonged to Saul and to all his House.
10 “You, therefore, and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and bring in, so that your master’s son may have food to eat. And Mephibosheth, your master’s son, shall eat bread always at my table (now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants).
11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so shall your servant do, so that Mephibosheth may eat at my table, as one of the king’s sons.”
12 Mephibosheth also had a young son named Micha. And all who dwelled in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.
13 And Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem. For he ate continually at the king’s table and was lame in both his feet.
2 But this I determined in myself: that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
2 For if I grieve you, who then should make me glad but the same one who is grieved by me?
3 And I wrote this same thing to you, lest when I come, I should not be grieved by those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 For in great affliction, and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be made sorry, but that you might perceive the love which I have especially for you.
5 And if any have caused grief, the same has not grieved me, but partly (lest I overstate it) you all.
6 Sufficient for such a one is this punishment that was inflicted by many.
7 So that now, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest the same should be overwhelmed with excessive heaviness.
8 Therefore, I encourage you to confirm your love towards him.
9 For this also I wrote: that I might know the proof of you, whether you would be obedient in all things.
10 To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also. For truly if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, I forgave it for your sakes, in the sight of Christ,
11 lest Satan should circumvent us. For we are not ignorant of his purposes.
12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s Gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus, my brother. But, taking my leave of them, I went away into Macedonia.
14 Now, thanks to God, Who always makes us triumph in Christ; and, by us, makes manifest the savor of His knowledge in every place.
15 For we are to God the sweet savor of Christ, in those who are saved, and in those who perish.
16 To the one we are the savor of death unto death, and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as many who make merchandise of the Word of God. But as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
16 Again, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:
2 “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3 “and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your relatives are from the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
4 “And at your nativity, when you were born, your navel was not cut. You were not washed in water, to soften yourself. You were neither salted with salt nor swaddled in cloths.
5 “No eye pitied you, to do any of these for you, to have compassion upon you. But you were cast out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.
6 “And when I passed by you, I saw you trampled, in your own blood. And I said to you when you were in your blood, ‘You shall live.’ Even when you were in your blood, I said to you, ‘You shall live.’
7 “I have caused you to multiply, as the bud of the field, and you have increased and grown greatly. You have entered with excellent ornamentation, your breasts fashioned, and your hair grown. Whereas, before you were naked and bare.
8 “Now when I passed by you and looked upon you, behold, your time was as the time of love. And I spread My Wings over you and covered your filthiness. Yea, I swore to you, and entered into a Covenant with you,” says the Lord GOD, “and you became Mine.
9 “Then I washed you with water. Yea, I washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
10 “I clothed you also with embroidered work and shod you with badgers’ skin. And I wrapped you with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
11 “I also decorated you with ornaments. And I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck.
12 “And I put a frontlet upon your face, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
13 “Thus were you adorned with gold and silver. And your clothing was of fine linen and silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. And you were very beautiful. And you grew up into a kingdom.
14 “And your name was spread among the heathen because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My beauty which I had set upon you,” says the Lord GOD.
15 “But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your fame, and have poured out your fornications on everyone who passed by and was willing.
16 “And you took your garments and decorated your high places with diverse colors and played the harlot upon them. Such things should not come about or be done.
17 “You have also taken your fair jewels from My gold and from My silver which I had given you, and made images of men for yourself, and committed whoredom with them,
18 “and taken your embroidered garments and covered them. And you have set My oil and My perfume before them.
19 “Also, My food that I gave you (fine flour, oil and honey, with which I fed you), it so happens that you have also set it before them for a sweet savor,” says the Lord GOD.
20 “Moreover, you have taken your sons and your daughters whom you have borne to Me, and you have sacrificed these to them, to be devoured. Is your whoredom such a small matter
21 “that you have killed My children, and delivered them up to them by causing them to pass through fire?
22 “And in all your abominations and whoredoms, you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and trampled in your blood.
23 “And after all your wickedness (‘Woe! Woe to you!’ says the Lord GOD)
24 “You have also built for yourself a high place and have made yourself a high place in every street.
25 “You have built your high place at every corner of the way and have made your beauty abhorrent. You have opened your feet to everyone who passed by and multiplied your whoredom.
26 “You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and have increased your whoredom, to provoke Me.
27 “Therefore, behold, I have stretched out My Hand over you and diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked ways.
28 “You have also played the whore with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable. Yea, you have played the harlot with them and still could not be satisfied.
29 “Moreover, you have multiplied your fornication, from the land of Canaan to Chaldea, and still you were not satisfied with that.
30 “How weak your heart is,” says the Lord GOD, “seeing you do all these things—the work of a presumptuous, whorish woman—
31 “in that you build your high place on the corner of every road, and make your high place on every street, and have not been as a harlot who scorns wages,
32 “but as a wife who plays the harlot, taking others for her husband.
33 “They give gifts to all whores, but you give gifts to all your lovers and bribe them to come to you from every direction for your fornication.
34 “And you are the opposite of other women in your fornications, in that no one follows after your sort of harlotry. For you give a wage, and no wage is given to you. Therefore, you are the opposite.”
35 ‘Therefore, O harlot, hear the Word of the LORD.
36 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your shame was poured out and your filthiness discovered through your fornications with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, by the blood of your children which you offered to them,
37 “behold, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those whom you have loved together with all those whom you have hated. I will gather them against you, all around you, and will uncover your filthiness to them, so that they may see all your filthiness.
38 “And I will judge you in the same way as those who are harlots, and of those who shed blood. And I will give you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39 “I will also give you into their hands. And they shall destroy your high place and shall break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes and shall take your fair jewels and leave you naked and bare.
40 “They shall also bring up an assembly against you. And they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
41 “And they shall burn up your houses with fire and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. And I will cause you to cease playing the harlot. And you shall make no more payments.
42 “So will I make My wrath rest toward you. And My jealousy shall depart from you. And I will cease, and no longer be angry.
43 “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have provoked Me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have also brought your way upon your head,” says the Lord GOD, “And you shall not commit this lewdness in addition to all your other abominations.
44 “Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
45 “You are your mother’s daughter, who has cast off her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters who forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 “And your elder sister is Samaria, and her daughters who dwell on your left. And your younger sister who dwells on your right is Sodom and her daughters.
47 “Yet, you have not merely walked in their ways or followed after their abominations; but as if that were too little, you have been corrupted more than they in all your ways.
48 “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “Sodom, your sister, has not done (she or her daughters) as you and your daughters have done.
49 “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister, Sodom: pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her, and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50 “But they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore, I took them away as it pleased Me.
51 “Nor has Samaria committed half of your sins. But you have exceeded them in your abominations and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.
52 “Therefore, you, who have judged your sisters, bear shame for your own sins, in that you have committed more abominable ones than they (who are more righteous than you are). Therefore, you also should be disgraced, and bear your shame, seeing that you have judged your sisters.
53 “Therefore I will bring back their captives, with the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and with the captives of Samaria and her daughters, the captives of your captives, in the midst of them,
54 “so that you may bear your own shame and may be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them.
55 “And your sister, Sodom, and her daughters, shall return to their former state. Samaria, also, and her daughters, shall return to their former state, when you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
56 “For your sister, Sodom, was not mentioned by you in the days of your pride,
57 “before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistines all around her, who despise you in all directions.
58 “You have borne your wickedness and your abomination,” says the LORD.
59 ‘For thus says the Lord GOD: “I might even deal with you as you have done when you despised the oath in breaking the Covenant.
60 “Nevertheless, I will remember My Covenant with you in the days of your youth. And I will confirm an everlasting Covenant with you.
61 “Then you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, both elder and younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
62 “And I will establish My Covenant with you. And you shall know that I am the LORD,
63 “so that you may remember and be ashamed, and never again open your mouth because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done,” says the Lord GOD.’”
58 Is it true? O congregation, do you speak justly? O sons of men, do you judge uprightly?
2 Indeed, rather, you imagine mischief in your heart. Your hands execute cruelty upon the Earth.
3 The wicked are strangers from the womb. From the belly, they have erred and speak lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; like the deaf adder that stops its ear
5 It does not hear the voice of the enchanter (though he is most expert in charming).
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths. Break the jaws of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt like the waters. Let them pass away. When he shoots his arrows, let them be broken.
8 Let them proceed as a snail that melts, and like the stillborn child of a woman who has not seen the Sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns, let Him carry them away as green, with a whirlwind, in His wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And men shall say, “Truly, there is fruit for the righteous. Doubtless, there is a God Who judges on the Earth.” To him who excels: Do not destroy. A Psalm of David on Michtam, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him
59 O, my God, deliver me from my enemies. Defend me from those who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the wicked doers; and save me from the bloody men.
3 For lo, they have laid in wait for my soul. The mighty men have gathered against me, not for my offense, nor for my sin, O LORD.
4 Without fault on my part, they run and prepare themselves against me. Arise to assist me; and behold!
5 You, O LORD God of Hosts, O God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen. Do not be merciful to all who transgress maliciously. Selah.
6 They go to and fro in the evening. They bark like dogs and go about the city.
7 Behold, they brag in their talk, with swords in their lips (“For who hears?” they say).
8 But You, O LORD, shall hold them in derision. You shall laugh at all the heathen.
9 He is strong. I will wait upon You. For God is my Defense.
10 My merciful God will go before me. God will let me see my desire upon my enemies.
11 Do not kill them, lest my people forget it. But scatter them by Your power; and put them down, O LORD, our shield,
12 for the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips. And let them be taken in their pride, for their perjury and lies they speak.
13 Consume them in Your wrath. Consume them, so that they are no more; and let them know that God rules in Jacob unto the ends of the world. Selah.
14 And in the evening, they shall go to and fro and bark like dogs and go about the city.
15 They shall run here and there for food. Surely, they shall not be satisfied though they stay all night.
16 But I will sing of Your power and will praise Your mercy in the morning. For You have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 To You, O my Strength, I will sing. For God is my Defense, my merciful God. To him who excels upon Shushan Eduth, or Michtam: A Psalm of David, to teach, when he fought against Aram Naharaim, and against Aram Zobah; when Joab returned and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the salt valley
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