M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

10 And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for [to] Shechem have all Israel come to cause him to reign.

² And it cometh to pass, at Jeroboam son of Nebat's -- who [is] in Egypt because he hath fled from the face of Solomon the king -- hearing, that Jeroboam turneth back out of Egypt;

³ and they send and call for him, and Jeroboam cometh in, and all Israel, and speak unto Rehoboam, saying,

⁴ `Thy father made our yoke sharp, and now, make light [somewhat] of the sharp service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we serve thee.'

⁵ And he saith unto them, `Yet three days -- then return ye unto me;' and the people go.

⁶ And king Rehoboam consulteth with the aged men who have been standing before Solomon his father in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?'

⁷ And they speak unto him, saying, `If thou dost become good to this people, and hast been pleased with them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.'

⁸ And he forsaketh the counsel of the aged men that they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, those standing before him,

⁹ and he saith unto them, `What are ye counselling, and we answer this people that have spoken unto me, saying, Make light [somewhat] of the yoke that thy father put upon us?'

¹⁰ And the lads who have grown up with him, speak with him, saying, `Thus dost thou say to the people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make light [somewhat] of our yoke; thus dost thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father;

¹¹ and now, my father laid on you a heavy yoke, and I -- I add unto your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I -- with scorpions.'

¹² And Jeroboam cometh in, and all the people, unto Rehoboam on the third day, as the king spake, saying, `Return unto me on the third day.'

¹³ And the king answereth them sharply, and king Rehoboam forsaketh the counsel of the aged men,

¹⁴ and speaketh unto them according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I -- I add unto it; my father chastised you with whips, and I -- with scorpions.'

¹⁵ And the king hath not hearkened unto the people, for the revolution hath been from God, for the sake of Jehovah's establishing His word that He spake by the hand of Abijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.

¹⁶ And all Israel have seen that the king hath not hearkened to them, and the people send back [to] the king, saying, `What portion have we in David? yea, there is no inheritance in a son of Jesse; each to thy tents, O Israel; now, see thy house -- David,' and all Israel go to their tents.

¹⁷ As to the sons of Israel who are dwelling in the cities of Judah -- Rehoboam reigneth over them.

¹⁸ And king Rehoboam sendeth Hadoram, who [is] over the tribute, and the sons of Israel cast at him stones, and he dieth; and king Rehoboam hath strengthened himself to go up into a chariot to flee to Jerusalem;

¹⁹ and Israel transgress against the house of David unto this day.

1 A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify [it], having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

² who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.

³ Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!

⁴ John to the seven assemblies that [are] in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

⁶ and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him [is] the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁷ Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!

⁸ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'

⁹ I, John, who also [am] your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,

¹¹ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that [are] in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

¹² And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,

¹³ and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands, [one] like to a son of man, clothed to the foot, and girt round at the breast with a golden girdle,

¹⁴ and his head and hairs white, as if white wool -- as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;

¹⁵ and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,

¹⁶ and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance [is] as the sun shining in its might.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

¹⁸ and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

¹⁹ `Write the things that thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to come after these things;

²⁰ the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies.

2 Bend yourselves, yea, bend ye, O nation not desired,

² Before the bringing forth of a statute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah,

³ Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.

⁴ For Gaza is forsaken, And Ashkelon [is] for a desolation, Ashdod! at noon they do cast her forth, And Ekron is rooted up.

⁵ Ho! O inhabitants of the sea-coast, Nation of the Cherethites, A word of Jehovah [is] against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines, And I have destroyed thee without an inhabitant.

⁶ And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages [for] shepherds, and folds [for] a flock.

⁷ And the coast hath been for the remnant of the house of Judah, By them they have pleasure, In houses of Ashkelon at even they lie down, For inspect them doth Jehovah their God, And He hath turned back [to] their captivity.

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, Wherewith they reproached My people, And magnify [themselves] against their border.

⁹ Therefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation -- unto the age. A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.

¹⁰ This [is] to them for their arrogancy, Because they have reproached, And they magnify [themselves] against the people of Jehovah of Hosts.

¹¹ Fearful [is] Jehovah against them, For He made bare all gods of the land, And bow themselves to Him, each from his place, Do all islanders of the nations.

¹² Also ye, O Cushim, pierced of My sword [are] they.

¹³ And He stretcheth His hand against the north, And doth destroy Asshur, And he setteth Nineveh for a desolation, A dry land like a wilderness.

¹⁴ And crouched in her midst have droves, Every beast of the nation, Both pelican and hedge-hog in her knobs lodge, A voice doth sing at the window, `Destruction [is] at the threshold, For the cedar-work is exposed.'

¹⁵ This [is] the exulting city that is dwelling confidently, That is saying in her heart, `I [am], and beside me there is none,' How hath she been for a desolation, A crouching-place for beasts, Every one passing by her doth hiss, He doth shake his hand!

24 And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain [others] with them,

² and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,

³ and having gone in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴ And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that lo, two men stood by them in glittering apparel,

⁵ and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, `Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

⁶ he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee,

⁷ saying -- It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'

⁸ And they remembered his sayings,

⁹ and having turned back from the tomb told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

¹⁰ And it was the Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told unto the apostles these things,

¹¹ and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

¹² And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

¹³ And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which [is] Emmaus,

¹⁴ and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.

¹⁵ And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,

¹⁶ and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,

¹⁷ and he said unto them, `What [are] these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?'

¹⁸ And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'

¹⁹ And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,

²⁰ how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;

²¹ and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.

²² `And certain women of ours also astonished us, coming early to the tomb,

²³ and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,

²⁴ and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.'

²⁵ And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

²⁶ Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'

²⁷ and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

²⁸ And they came nigh to the village whither they were going, and he made an appearance of going on further,

²⁹ and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.

³⁰ And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,

³¹ and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.

³² And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'

³³ And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,

³⁴ saying -- `The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'

³⁵ and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,

³⁶ and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace -- to you;'

³⁷ and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit.

³⁸ And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts?

³⁹ see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'

⁴⁰ And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,

⁴¹ and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?'

⁴² and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,

⁴³ and having taken, he did eat before them,

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These [are] the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

⁴⁵ Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

⁴⁶ and he said to them -- `Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

⁴⁷ and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

⁴⁸ and ye -- ye are witnesses of these things.

⁴⁹ `And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'

⁵⁰ And he led them forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them,

⁵¹ and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;

⁵² and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy,

⁵³ and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.