M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

23 And David is old, and satisfied with days, and causeth his son Solomon to reign over Israel,

² and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites;

³ and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand.

⁴ Of these to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah [are] twenty and four thousand, and officers and judges six thousand,

⁵ and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, `with instruments that I made for praising,' [saith David.]

⁶ And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

⁷ Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.

⁸ Sons of Laadan: the head [is] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

⁹ Sons of Shimei [are] Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three; these [are] heads of the fathers of Laadan.

¹⁰ And sons of Shimei [are] Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah; these [are] sons of Shimei, four.

¹¹ And Jahath is the head, and Zizah the second, and Jeush and Beriah have not multiplied sons, and they become the house of a father by one numbering.

¹² Sons of Kohath [are] Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

¹³ Sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron is separated for his sanctifying the holy of holies, he and his sons -- unto the age, to make perfume before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name -- unto the age.

¹⁴ As to Moses, the man of God, his sons are called after the tribe of Levi.

¹⁵ Sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

¹⁶ Sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head.

¹⁷ And sons of Eliezer are Rehabiah the head, and Eliezer had no other sons, and the sons of Rehabiah have multiplied exceedingly.

¹⁸ Sons of Izhar: Shelomith the head.

¹⁹ Sons of Hebron: Jeriah the head, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

²⁰ Sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Ishshiah, the second.

²¹ Sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

²² And Eleazar dieth, and he had no sons, but daughters, and sons of Kish their brethren take them.

²³ Sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.

²⁴ These [are] sons of Levi, by the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, by their appointments, in the number of names, by their polls, doing the work for the service of the house of Jehovah, from a son of twenty years and upward,

²⁵ for David said, `Jehovah, God of Israel, hath given rest to His people, and He doth tabernacle in Jerusalem unto the age;'

²⁶ and also of the Levites, `None [are] to bear the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service;'

²⁷ for by the last words of David they [took] the number of the sons of Levi from a son of twenty years and upward,

²⁸ for their station [is] at the side of the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of Jehovah, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the cleansing of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of God,

²⁹ and for the bread of the arrangement, and for fine flour for present, and for the thin unleavened cakes, and for [the work of] the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all [liquid] measure and [solid] measure;

³⁰ and to stand, morning by morning, to give thanks, and to give praise to Jehovah, and so at evening;

³¹ and for all the burnt-offerings -- burnt-offerings to Jehovah for sabbaths, for new moons, and for appointed seasons, by number, according to the ordinance upon them continually, before Jehovah.

³² And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

4 Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

² no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

³ for sufficient to us [is] the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

⁴ in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

⁵ who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,

⁶ for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

⁷ And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

⁸ and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

⁹ hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

¹⁰ each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

¹¹ if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹² Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

¹⁴ if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy [are ye], because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;

¹⁵ for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

¹⁷ because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?

¹⁸ And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner -- where shall he appear?

¹⁹ so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

2 Wo [to] those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

² And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

³ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it [is].

⁴ In that day doth [one] take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.

⁵ Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.

⁶ Ye do not prophesy -- they do prophesy, They do not prophesy to these, It doth not remove shame.

⁷ Doth the house of Jacob say, `Hath the Spirit of Jehovah been shortened? Are these His doings?' Do not My words benefit the people that is walking uprightly?

⁸ And yesterday My people for an enemy doth raise himself up, From the outer garment the honourable ornament ye strip off, From the confident passers by, Ye who are turning back from war.

⁹ The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.

¹⁰ Rise and go, for this [is] not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.

¹¹ If one is going [with] the wind, And [with] falsehood hath lied: `I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,' He hath been the prophet of this people!

¹² I do surely gather thee, O Jacob, all of thee, I surely bring together the remnant of Israel, Together I do set it as the flock of Bozrah, As a drove in the midst of its pasture, It maketh a noise because of man.

¹³ Gone up hath the breaker before them, They have broken through, Yea, they pass through the gate, Yea, they go out through it, And pass on doth their king before them, And Jehovah at their head!

11 And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, `Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'

² And he said to them, `When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;

³ our appointed bread be giving us daily;

⁴ and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.'

⁵ And he said unto them, `Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

⁶ seeing a friend of mine came out of the way unto me, and I have not what I shall set before him,

⁷ and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

⁸ `I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need;

⁹ and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

¹⁰ for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

¹¹ `And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

¹² and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion?

¹³ If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

¹⁴ And he was casting forth a demon, and it was dumb, and it came to pass, the demon having gone forth, the dumb man spake, and the multitudes wondered,

¹⁵ and certain of them said, `By Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons, he doth cast forth the demons;'

¹⁶ and others, tempting, a sign out of heaven from him were asking.

¹⁷ And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated; and house against house doth fall;

¹⁸ and if also the Adversary against himself was divided, how shall his kingdom be made to stand? for ye say, by Beelzeboul is my casting forth the demons.

¹⁹ `But if I by Beelzeboul cast forth the demons -- your sons, by whom do they cast forth? because of this your judges they shall be;

²⁰ but if by the finger of God I cast forth the demons, then come unawares upon you did the reign of God.

²¹ `When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

²² but when the stronger than he, having come upon [him], may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;

²³ he who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me doth scatter.

²⁴ `When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;

²⁵ and having come, it findeth [it] swept and adorned;

²⁶ then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'

²⁷ And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping [it]!'

²⁹ And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, `This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

³⁰ for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

³¹ `A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, greater than Solomon here!

³² `Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah; and lo, greater than Jonah here!

³³ `And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put [it] in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.

³⁴ `The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;

³⁵ take heed, then, lest the light that [is] in thee be darkness;

³⁶ if then thy whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give thee light.'

³⁷ And in [his] speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),

³⁸ and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.

³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

⁴⁰ unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?

⁴¹ But what ye have give ye [as] alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

⁴² `But wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

⁴³ `Wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

⁴⁴ `Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

⁴⁶ and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, wo! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

⁴⁷ `Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸ Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

⁴⁹ because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

⁵² `Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,

⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.