M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

8 ¶ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the families of the sons of Israel, unto King Solomon in Jerusalem that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

² And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto King Solomon in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month, on the solemn day.

³ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

⁴ And they brought up the ark of the LORD and the tabernacle of the testimony and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, which the priests and the Levites carried.

⁵ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

⁶ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, in the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

⁷ For the cherubim had their wings extended over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves from above.

⁸ And they drew out the staves so that the ends of the staves could be seen out in the holy place in front of the oracle, but they could not be seen from outside, and thus they remained until today.

⁹ There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD cut a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And when the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.

¹¹ And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

¹² ¶ Then Solomon said, The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

¹³ I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

¹⁴ And the king turned his face about and blessed all the congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel were standing.

¹⁵ And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and with his hand has fulfilled it, saying,

¹⁶ Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

¹⁷ And it was in the heart of David, my father, to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

¹⁸ But the LORD said unto David, my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;

¹⁹ nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house unto my name.

²⁰ And the LORD has established his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in the place of David, my father, and sit on the throne of Israel as the LORD had said and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

²¹ And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²² ¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and extending his hands toward heaven,

²³ he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in the heavens above or on earth beneath, who keeps the covenant and mercy with thy slaves that walk before thee with all their heart,

²⁴ who hast kept unto thy slave David, my father, what thou didst declare unto him; thou didst say it with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as we see this day.

²⁵ Therefore, now, LORD God of Israel, fulfill unto thy slave David, my father, what thou didst promise him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if thy sons keep their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

²⁶ And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be made firm, which thou didst speak unto thy slave David, my father.

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have built?

²⁸ Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy slave and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy slave prays before thee today,

²⁹ that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there that thou may hearken unto the prayer which thy slave shall make in this place.

³⁰ Therefore, thou shalt hearken unto the supplication of thy slave and of thy people Israel when they shall pray in this place and hear in thy dwelling place, from the heavens; please hear and forgive.

³¹ When anyone shall have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath is laid upon him to cause him to swear and the oath comes before thy altar in this house,

³² thou shalt hear from heaven and do and judge thy slaves, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

³³ When thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy because they have sinned against thee and shall turn again to thee and confess thy name and pray and make supplication with humility unto thee in this house,

³⁴ then thou shalt hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them again unto the land which thou didst give unto their fathers.

³⁵ When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray in this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou hast afflicted them,

³⁶ then thou shalt hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy slaves and of thy people Israel, teaching them the good way in which they should walk and shalt give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

³⁷ When there is famine in the land or pestilence or blasting or mildew or locusts or caterpillars, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

³⁸ every prayer and every supplication made by any man or by all thy people Israel, when anyone knows the plague of his own heart and spreads forth his hands toward this house,

³⁹ then thou shalt hear in the heavens, in the habitation of thy dwelling place, and forgive and do and give to each one according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the sons of men),

⁴⁰ that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou didst give unto our fathers.

⁴¹ Likewise concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but comes out of a far country for thy name’s sake

⁴² (for they shall have heard of thy great name and of thy strong hand and of thy stretched out arm), when he shall come to pray in this house,

⁴³ thou shalt hear in the heavens, in the habitation of thy dwelling place, and do according to all that for which the stranger shall have called unto thee, that all peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee as do thy people Israel and that they may know that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have built.

⁴⁴ If thy people go out to battle against their enemies by the way which thou shalt send them and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for thy name,

⁴⁵ thou shalt hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication and do their judgment.

⁴⁶ If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that does not sin) and thou should be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near,

⁴⁷ and they return unto their heart in the land where they were carried captives and return and make supplication unto thee in the land of those that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned and have done iniquity, we have committed wickedness;

⁴⁸ and so convert themselves unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou didst give unto their fathers, toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,

⁴⁹ thou shalt hear in the heavens, in the habitation of thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplication and do what is right unto them

⁵⁰ and forgive thy people that have sinned against thee and all their rebellions by which they have rebelled against thee and cause those who carried them captive to have mercy on them,

⁵¹ for they are thy people and thy inheritance, which thou didst bring forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace.

⁵² Let thine eyes be open unto the supplication of thy slave and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

⁵³ For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thy inheritance, as thou didst speak by the hand of Moses, thy slave, when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.

⁵⁴ ¶ And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands extended toward heaven.

⁵⁵ And he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

⁵⁶ Blessed be the LORD that has given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he had said; not one word has failed of all his good word, which he spoke by the hand of Moses, his slave.

⁵⁷ The LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us

⁵⁸ that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his rights, which he commanded our fathers.

⁵⁹ And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near unto the LORD our God day and night that he maintain the judgment of his slave and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require;

⁶⁰ that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is no other.

⁶¹ Let your heart, therefore, be perfect with the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.

⁶² ¶ Then the king and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices before the LORD.

⁶³ And Solomon offered sacrifices of peace, which he offered unto the LORD, which were twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

⁶⁴ That same day the king sanctified the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offerings and the presents and the fat of the peace offerings because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offerings and the presents and the fat of the peace offerings.

⁶⁵ And at that time Solomon held a feast and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, for seven days and another seven days, even fourteen days.

⁶⁶ On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they, blessing the king, went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done unto David, his slave, and unto Israel his people.

5 ¶ Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children

² and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.

³ ¶ But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becomes saints,

⁴ neither dishonest words nor foolishness nor low jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks.

⁵ For this ye know, that no fornicator nor unclean person nor covetous man, who is also an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷ Be not ye, therefore, partakers with them.

⁸ For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

⁹ (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹⁰ approving what is well pleasing unto the Lord.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

¹² For it is a shame even to speak of those things which they do in secret.

¹³ But all these things when they are reproved by the light are made manifest, for the light is that which manifests everything.

¹⁴ Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

¹⁵ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Therefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding of what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

¹⁹ speaking among yourselves with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and praising the Lord in your hearts,

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things unto the God and Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹ ¶ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husband, as unto the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife even as the Christ is head of the congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and it is he who gives saving health to the body.

²⁴ Therefore, as the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} is subject unto the Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives even as the Christ also loved the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and gave himself for her,

²⁶ that he might sanctify and cleanse her in the washing of water by the word,

²⁷ that he might present her glorious for himself, a congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ So ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord with his congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

³³ Nevertheless, let each one of you do likewise, let each one so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverences her husband.

38 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

² Son of man, set thy face against Gog in the land of Magog, prince of the capital of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy over him,

³ and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I come unto thee, O Gog, prince of the capital of Meshech and Tubal;

⁴ and I will break thee and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

⁵ Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet:

⁶ Gomer and all his companies; the house of Togarmah that dwells to the sides of the north and all his companies and many peoples with thee.

⁷ Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

⁸ After many days thou shalt be visited; at the end of years thou shalt come to the land broken by the sword, gathered out of many peoples, to the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste; but she is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

⁹ Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm; thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy companies and many peoples with thee.

¹⁰ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: It shall also come to pass in that day, that words shall rise up in thy heart, and thou shalt conceive an evil thought:

¹¹ and thou shalt say, I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will go against those that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

¹² to take a spoil and to take a prey, to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the people that are gathered out of the Gentiles, who have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the navel of the land.

¹³ Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

¹⁴ ¶ Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog: Thus hath the Lord GOD said: In that time when my people of Israel shall dwell securely, shalt thou not know it?

¹⁵ And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

¹⁶ and thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be at the end of the days, and I will bring thee upon my land, that the Gentiles may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

¹⁷ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Art thou not he of whom I have spoken in days past by my slaves the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those times that I would have to bring thee upon them?

¹⁸ And it shall come to pass in that time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, said the Lord GOD, that my fury shall rise up in my anger.

¹⁹ For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking upon the land of Israel,

²⁰ so that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the field and every serpent that walks by dragging itself upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake before my presence, and the mountains shall be ruined, and the stairs shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

²¹ And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, said the Lord GOD: each man’s sword shall be against his brother.

²² And I will litigate against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him and upon his companies and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

²³ And I will be magnified and sanctified, and I will be known in the eyes of many Gentiles, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

¹ ¶ I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens; in them thou shalt establish thy truth.

³ I have made a covenant with my chosen; I have sworn unto David my slave, saying,

⁴ Thy seed will I establish for ever and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

⁵ ¶ And the heavens shall praise thy wonder, O LORD, thy truth also in the congregation of the saints.

⁶ For who in the heavens can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence of all those that are about him.

⁸ O LORD God of the hosts, who is like unto thee? Strong JAH, compassed about with thy truth.

⁹ Thou dost rule the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, thou dost still them.

¹⁰ Thou hast broken Egypt in pieces as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

¹¹ The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: the world and its fullness, thou didst found.

¹² Thou hast created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon shall sing in thy name.

¹³ The mighty arm is thine; strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

¹⁴ Thy throne is composed of righteousness and judgment; mercy and truth go before thy face.

¹⁵ ¶ Happy are the people that know how to enter into joy; they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

¹⁶ In thy name shall they rejoice each day; and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength, and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For the LORD is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

¹⁹ ¶ Then thou didst speak in vision to thy holy one and didst say, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of my people.

²⁰ I have found David my slave; I anointed him with the oil of my holiness,

²¹ with whom my hand shall be established; mine arm also shall strengthen him.

²² The enemy shall not overcome him, nor the son of iniquity break him down.

²³ But I will break down his foes before his face and smite those that hate him.

²⁴ But my truth and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵ In the same manner I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers.

²⁶ He shall call me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my saving health.

²⁷ Also I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.

²⁸ I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

²⁹ I will also make his seed to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of the heavens.

³⁰ If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments,

³¹ if they profane my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

³² then I will visit their rebellion with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

³³ Nevertheless I will not take my mercy from him, neither will I falsify my truth.

³⁴ I will not profane my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

³⁶ His seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the sun before me.

³⁷ It shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

³⁸ ¶ But thou hast cast off and abhorred thine anointed; thou hast been wroth with him.

³⁹ Thou hast made void the covenant of thy slave; thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

⁴¹ All that pass by the way spoil him; he is a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴² Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

⁴³ Thou hast also blunted the edge of his sword and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

⁴⁴ Thou hast made his clarity to cease and cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁵ The days of his youth hast thou shortened; thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

⁴⁶ How long, O LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?

⁴⁸ What man is he that lives and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

⁴⁹ Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou didst sware unto David in thy truth?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy slaves; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of many peoples,

⁵¹ because thine enemies have dishonoured, O LORD; they have dishonoured the footsteps of thine anointed.

⁵² Blessed be the LORD for ever. Amen and Amen.