M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
10 ¶ And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come together in Shechem to make him king.
2 And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, heard it, who was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of Solomon, the king, Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
4 Thy father made our yoke grievous; now, therefore, ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, saying, What do you counsel to reply to this people?
7 And they spoke unto him, saying, If thou wilt seek the good of this people and please them and speak good words to them, they will be thy slaves for ever.
8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
9 And he said unto them, What do you counsel us to reply to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
10 Then the young men that were brought up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spoke unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.
11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12 ¶ So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had commanded, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
13 And the king answered them roughly, for King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men
14 and answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
15 So the king did not hearken unto the people, for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spoke by the hand of Ahijah, the Shilonite, unto Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David or inheritance in the son of Jesse? Every man to your tents, O Israel! Now, David, see to thine own house! So all Israel went to their tents.
17 But Rehoboam reigned over the sons of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah.
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the tribute and the sons of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. So King Rehoboam made speed to get into a chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
19 Thus Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1 ¶ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his slaves things which are convenient to do quickly, and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his slave John,
2 who bore witness of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
3 ¶ Blessed is he that reads and those that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand.
4 John, to the seven congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} which are in Asia: Grace be unto you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne
5 and from Jesus, the Christ, who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood
6 and has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
7 Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him and those also who pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail over him. Even so, Amen.
8 I AM the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
9 ¶ I John, your brother and participant in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in the patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit in the day of the Lord and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet,
11 that said, I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, and What thou seest, write in a book and send it unto the seven congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} which are in Asia: unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna and unto Pergamos and unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden lampstands
13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like white wool, as the snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire
15 and his feet like unto brilliant metal as if they burned in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun when it shines in its strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I AM the first and the last,
18 and he that lives and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of Hades and of death.
19 Write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things which must be after these.
20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven congregations, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and the seven lampstands which thou sawest are the seven congregations. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}
2 ¶ Search yourselves and one another, O unfriendly people;
2 before the decree is executed, before the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, who have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek humility: it may be ye shall be kept in the day of the LORD’s anger.
4 ¶ For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall spoil Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the people of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Palestinians, I will cause thee to be destroyed until there shall be no inhabitant left.
6 And the sea coast shall be for dwellings and cottages for pastors, and sheepfolds.
7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon they shall sleep for the night; for the LORD their God shall visit them and return their captives.
8 ¶ I have heard the reproaches of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, by which they have dishonoured my people and magnified themselves over their border.
9 Therefore as I live, said the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a field of nettles and saltpits and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my Gentiles shall inherit them.
10 This shall come upon them for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of the hosts.
11 The LORD shall be terrible against them for he will weaken all the gods of the earth; and each one from his place shall worship him, even all the isles of the Gentiles.
12 ¶ Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand over the north wind and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness.
14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the Gentiles; both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in her thresholds; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the gates: for her cedar work shall be uncovered.
15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! anyone that passes by her shall hiss and wag his hand.
24 ¶ Now upon the first of the sabbaths, very early in the morning they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
3 And they entered in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 And it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments;
5 and as they were afraid and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen; remember how he spoke unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
7 saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
8 Then they remembered his words
9 and returned from the sepulchre and told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest.
10 It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and other women that were with them who told these things unto the apostles.
11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they did not believe them.
12 But Peter arose and ran unto the sepulchre, and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
13 ¶ And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was about sixty furlongs from Jerusalem.
14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went together with them.
16 But their eyes were held fast that they should not know him.
17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk and are sad?
18 And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
19 Then he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
20 and how the princes of the priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.
21 But we were hoping that it was he who should redeem Israel, and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.
22 Although also certain women of our company made us astonished, who before daybreak were at the sepulchre;
23 and when they did not find his body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
24 And certain of those who were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said; but they did not see him.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken;
26 ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter (like this) into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded this unto them in all the scriptures concerning himself.
28 And they drew near unto the village where they went, and he made as though he would have gone further.
29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
30 And it came to pass as he sat at the table with them, he took bread and blessed it and broke and gave to them.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us in the way and while he opened to us the scriptures?
33 And they rose up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven gathered together and those that were with them,
34 saying, The Lord is risen indeed and has appeared to Simon.
35 And they told what things were done in the way and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
36 ¶ And as they spoke these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed that they were seeing a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet.
41 And as they were not believing him yet for joy and wondering, he said unto them, Have ye here any food?
42 So they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and of a honeycomb.
43 And he took it and ate before them.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.
45 Then he opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures
46 and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day;
47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
49 And, behold, I shall send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye are endued with power from on high.
50 ¶ And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
51 And it came to pass while he blessed them, he was parted from them and carried up into heaven.
52 And they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy
53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
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