M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
5 So, all the work that Solomon made for the House of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, with the silver and the gold and all the vessels and put them among the treasures of the House of God.
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes—the chief fathers of the children of Israel—to Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD from the City of David (which is Zion).
3 And all the men of Israel assembled to the king at the Feast. It was in the seventh month.
4 And all the elders of Israel came. And the Levites took up the Ark.
5 And they carried up the Ark and the Tabernacle of the Congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle. The priests and Levites brought those up.
6 And King Solomon and all the Congregation of Israel who were assembled to him were before the Ark, offering sheep and bullocks which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
7 So, the priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to its place, into the Oracle of the House, into the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the Cherubim.
8 For the Cherubim stretched out their wings over the place of the Ark. And the Cherubim covered the Ark and its poles above.
9 And they extended the poles, so that the ends of the poles might be seen out of the Ark, in front of the Oracle. But they were not seen outside. And they are there to this day.
10 Nothing was in the Ark except the two Tables which Moses gave at Horeb, where the LORD made a Covenant with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
11 And when the priests had come out of the Sanctuary (for all the priests who were present were sanctified and did not wait by divisions),
12 and the Levites (the singers of all sorts) —Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, and of their sons and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen—they stood with cymbals and with viols and harps at the eastern end of the Altar, and with them a hundred twenty priests, blowing with trumpets.
13 And they were as one, blowing trumpets and singing and making one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, lifting up their voices with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music and praising the LORD, singing, “For He is good, because His mercy endures forever.” Then the House, the House of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud. For the Glory of the LORD had filled the House of God.
6 Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the dark cloud.
2 “And I have built You a House to dwell in, a habitation for You to dwell in forever.”
3 And the king turned his face and blessed all the Congregation of Israel (for all the Congregation of Israel stood).
4 And he said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, Who spoke with His Mouth to David, my father, and has fulfilled it with His Hand, saying,
5 ‘Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city of all the tribes of Israel to build a House, so that My Name might be there. Nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.
6 ‘But I have chosen Jerusalem, so that My Name might be there. And I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
7 “And it was in the heart of David, my father, to build a House to the Name of the LORD God of Israel.
8 “But the LORD said to David, my father, ‘Insofar as it was in your heart to build a House to My Name, you did well to be so minded.
9 ‘Notwithstanding, you shall not build the House. Rather, your son who shall come out of your loins, he shall build a House to My Name.’
10 “And the LORD has performed His Word that He spoke. And I have risen up in the place of David, my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. And I have built a House to the Name of the LORD God of Israel.
11 “And I have set the Ark there, in which is the Covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”
4 Dearly beloved, do not believe every spirit. But test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you shall know the Spirit of God: Every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God.
3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is not of God. But this is the spirit of Antichrist, of whom you have heard; how that he would come and is now already in this world.
4 Little children, you are of God; and have overcome them! For greater is He Who is in you than he who is in this world.
5 They are of this world. Therefore, they speak of this world. And this world hears them.
6 We are of God. The one who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another. For love comes from God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 The one who does not love does not know God. For God is love.
9 In this was that love of God revealed amongst us: because God sent His only begotten Son into this world, so that we might live through Him.
10 In this is that love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a reconciliation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us. And His love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us: because He has given us of His Spirit.
14 And we have seen (and do testify) that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God - God dwells in him and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love. And the one who dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.
17 In this is that love perfected in us: that we should have boldness on the Day of Judgment. For as He is, even so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love casts out fear. For fear has painfulness. And the one who fears has not been perfected in love.
19 We love Him because He loved us first.
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For how can one who does not love his brother - whom he has seen - love God, Whom he has not seen?
21 And this Commandment we have from Him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
3 O bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. And its prey never departs:
2 the noise of a whip and the noise of the moving of the wheels and the beating of the horses and the leaping of the chariots.
3 The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear. And a multitude is slain, and the dead bodies are many. There is no end of their corpses. They stumble over their corpses,
4 because of the multitude of the fornications of the beautiful harlot, who is a mistress of witchcraft and sells the people through her whoredom and the nations through her witchcrafts.
5 “Behold, I come upon you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and will uncover your skirts upon your face, and will show the nations your filthiness, and the kingdoms your shame.
6 “And I will cast filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a spectacle.
7 “And it shall happen at that time that all those who look upon you shall flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed! Who will have pity upon her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you?”
8 Are you better than No, who was full of people, which lay in the rivers and had the waters all around it, whose ditch was the sea, and her wall from the sea?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength. And there was no end. Put and Lubim were her helpers.
10 Yet she was carried away and went into captivity. Also, her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets. And they cast lots for her noble men. And all her mighty men were bound in chains.
11 Also, you shall be drunk. You shall hide yourself and shall seek help because of the enemy.
12 All your strong cities shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs. For if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your people within you are women. The gates of your land shall be opened to your enemies. The fire shall devour your bars.
14 Draw water for the siege. Fortify your strongholds. Go into the clay and temper the mortar. Make strong bricks.
15 There shall the fire devour you. The sword shall cut you off. It shall eat you up like the locusts. You are multiplied like the locusts, multiplied like the swarming locusts.
16 You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven. The locust plunders and flies away.
17 Your princes are as the swarming locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers which remain in the hedges in the cold time. When the Sun rises, they flee away. And the place where they are is not known.
18 Your shepherds sleep, O king of Assyria! Your strong men lie down. Your people are scattered upon the mountains. And no man gathers.
19 There is no healing of your wound. Your plague is grievous. All who hear of you shall clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not your malice passed continually?
19 Now when Jesus entered and passed through Jericho,
2 behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief receiver of the tribute. And he was rich.
3 And he sought to see Jesus (who He was) and could not because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.
4 Therefore he ran ahead and climbed up into a wild fig tree, so that he might see Him. For He would be coming that way.
5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus! Come down at once! For today I must stay at your house!”
6 Then he quickly came down and received Him joyfully.
7 And when they all saw it, they murmured, saying that He had gone to lodge with a sinful man.
8 But Zacchaeus, standing, said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have taken from anyone by false accusation, I restore it to him fourfold.”
9 Then Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house! Because he has also become the son of Abraham!
10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save those who have been lost.”
11 And while they heard these things, He continued and spoke a parable (because He was near Jerusalem, and also because they thought that the Kingdom of God would shortly appear).
12 Therefore, He said, “A certain nobleman went into a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and then to return.
13 “And he called his ten servants, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business until I come.’
14 “Now, his citizens hated him, and sent ambassadors after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man reign over us!’
15 “And it happened that when he had returned (and had received his kingdom) he commanded the servants to whom he had given his money be called to him, so that he might know what each had gained.
16 “Then the first came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has increased to ten minas.’
17 “And he said to him, ‘Well, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little thing, take authority over ten cities!’
18 “And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has increased to five minas.’
19 “And to this one he said, ‘And you rule over five cities!’
20 “So the other came, and said, ‘Lord, behold your mina, which I have put away in a handkerchief.
21 ‘For I feared you because you are an exacting man. You take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’
22 “Then he said to him, ‘From your own mouth will I judge you, O evil servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.
23 ‘Why, then, did you not give my money to the bank, so that I might have required it with interest when I came?’
24 “And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to him who has ten minas!’
25 “And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas.’
26 ‘For I say to you that to all those who have, it shall be given. And from the one who has not, even that he has shall be taken from him.
27 ‘Moreover, bring my enemies here who do not wish to have me reign over them and kill them before me!’”
28 And when He had said this, He went on ahead, ascending up to Jerusalem.
29 And it happened that when He had come near Bethphage and Bethany (next to the mountain called the “Mount of Olives”), He sent two of his disciples,
30 saying, “Go to the town before you, in which (as soon as you have entered) you shall find a colt, tied, whereupon no man ever sat. Untie it and bring it.
31 “And if anyone asks you why you have untied it, you shall say this to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’”
32 So those who were sent went their way and found it as he had said to them.
33 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?!”
34 And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”
35 So they brought it to Jesus. And they cast their garments on the colt and sat Jesus upon it.
36 And as He went, they spread their clothes along the way.
37 And when He had now come near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God loudly for all the great works that they had seen,
38 saying, “Blessed is the King Who comes in the Name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven! And Glory in the highest places!”
39 Then some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Master, rebuke Your disciples.”
40 But He answered, and said to them, “I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would cry.”
41 And when He had come near, He looked at the city and wept for it,
42 saying, “O, if you had known (even at the least, and on this your day) those things which belong to your peace! But now are they hidden from your eyes.
43 “For the days shall come upon you that your enemies will cast a rampart around you, and surround you, and trap you on every side,
44 “And shall make you even with the ground (and your children who are in you). And they shall not leave a stone upon a stone within you. Because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
45 He also went into the Temple and began to cast out those inside who sold and bought,
46 saying to them, “It is written! ‘My house is the house of prayer!’ But you have made it a den of thieves!”
47 And He taught daily in the Temple. And the chief priests and the scribes, and the chief of the people sought to destroy Him.
48 But they could not find what they might do to Him. For all the people hung upon Him when they heard Him.
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