M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

3 These were the sons born to David in Hevron: the firstborn was Amnon, whose mother was Achino‘am from Yizre‘el; the second, Dani’el, whose mother was Avigayil from Karmel; ² the third, Avshalom, the son of Ma‘akhah the daughter of Talmai king of G’shur; the fourth, Adoniyah the son of Haggit; ³ the fifth, Sh’fatyah, whose mother was Avital; and the sixth, Yitre‘am, whose mother was his wife ‘Eglah. ⁴ Six were born to David in Hevron. He ruled there seven years and six months; then he ruled in Yerushalayim thirty-three years.

⁵ These were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shim‘a, Shovav, Natan, Shlomo, four whose mother was Bat-Shua the daughter of ‘Ammi’el; ⁶ and nine others — Yivchar, Elishama, Elifelet, ⁷ Nogah, Nefeg, Yafia, ⁸ Elishama, Elyada and Elifelet. ⁹ All these were sons of David, apart from the sons of the concubines; Tamar was their sister.

¹⁰ Shlomo’s son was Rechav‘am, his son Aviyah, his son Asa, his son Y’hoshafat, ¹¹ his son Yoram, his son Achazyah, his son Yo’ash, ¹² his son Amatzyah, his son ‘Azaryah, his son Yotam, ¹³ his son Achaz, his son Hizkiyahu, his son M’nasheh, ¹⁴ his son Amon and his son Yoshiyahu. ¹⁵ The sons of Yoshiyahu: Yochanan the firstborn, Y’hoyakim the second, Tzedekyah the third, and Shalum the fourth. ¹⁶ The sons of Y’hoyakim: Y’khonyah his son, and Tzedekyah his son. ¹⁷ The sons of Y’khonyah, also called Asir: Sh’alti’el his son; ¹⁸ also Malkiram, P’dayah, Shen’atzar, Y’kamyah, Hoshama and N’davyah. ¹⁹ The sons of P’dayah: Z’rubavel and Shim‘i. The children of Z’rubavel: Meshulam, Hananyah and Shlomit their sister; ²⁰ also Hashuvah, Ohel, Berekhyah, Hasadyah and Yushav-Hesed — five. ²¹ The sons of Hananyah: P’latyah and Yesha‘yah. His son was Refayah. His son was Arnan. His son was ‘Ovadyah. And his son was Sh’khanyah. ²² The sons of Sh’khanyah: Sh’ma‘yah and the sons of Sh’ma‘yah — Hatush, Yig’al, Bariach, Ne‘aryah and Shafat — six. ²³ The sons of Ne‘aryah: Elyo‘einai, Hizkiyah and ‘Azrikam — three. ²⁴ The sons of Elyo‘einai: Hodavyahu, Elyashiv, P’layah, ‘Akuv, Yochanan, D’layah and ‘Anani — seven.

4 The descendants of Y’hudah: Peretz, Hetzron, Karmi, Hur and Shoval. ² Re’ayah the son of Shoval fathered Yachat; Yachat fathered Achumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Tzor‘ati. ³ These are [the sons] of the father of ‘Eitam: Yizre‘el, Yishma and Yidbash; their sister’s name was Hatzlelponi. ⁴ P’nu’el fathered Geder, and ‘Ezer fathered Hushah. These are the sons of Hur the firstborn of Efratah, the father of Beit-Lechem.

⁵ Ashur the father of T’koa had two wives, Hel’ah and Na‘arah. ⁶ Na‘arah bore him Achuzam, Hefer, Teimni and Achashtari; these were the sons of Na‘arah. ⁷ The sons of Hel’ah were Tzeret, Tzochar and Etnan. ⁸ Kotz fathered ‘Anuv, Tzovevah and the families of Acharchel the son of Harum. ⁹ Ya‘betz was honored more than his brothers; his mother called him Ya‘betz, she explained, “because I bore him in pain ^[a].” ¹⁰ Ya‘betz called on the God of Isra’el: “Please bless me by enlarging my territory. May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm, so that it will not cause me pain ^[b].” God granted his request.

¹¹ K’luv the brother of Shuchah fathered M’chir, who fathered Eshton. ¹² Eshton fathered Beit-Rafa, Paseach and T’chinah the father of ‘Ir-Nachash. These are the men of Rekhah.

¹³ The sons of K’naz: ‘Otni’el and S’rayah. The son of ‘Otni’el: Hatat. ¹⁴ M‘onotai fathered ‘Ofrah, and S’rayah fathered Yo’av the father of Gei-Harashim; for they were craftsmen ^[c].

¹⁵ The sons of Kalev the son of Y’funeh: ‘Iru, Elah and Na‘am. The son of Elah: K’naz. ¹⁶ The sons of Yehallel’el: Zif, Zifah, Tirya and Asar’el. ^17-18 The sons of ‘Ezrah: Yeter, Mered, ‘Efer and Yalon. These are the sons of Bityah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took as his wife: she conceived Miryam, Shamai and Yishbach the father of Esht’moa; while his Jewish wife bore Yered the father of G’dor, Hever the father of Sokho and Y’kuti’el the father of Zanoach.

¹⁹ The sons of the wife of Hodiyah the sister of Nacham were the father of Ke‘ilah the Garmi and Esht’moa the Ma‘akhati. ²⁰ The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinah, Ben-Hanan and Tilon. The sons of Yish‘i: Zochet and Ben-Zochet.

²¹ The sons of Shelah the son of Y’hudah: ‘Er the father of Lekha, La‘adah the father of Mareshah and the clans of fine-linen-workers at Beit-Ashbea, ²² Yokim, the men of Kozeva, Saraf the ruler in Mo’av, and Yashuvi-Lechem (the records are ancient). ²³ These were potters and inhabitants of N’ta‘im and G’derah; they lived there, occupied with the king’s work.

²⁴ The sons of Shim‘on: N’mu’el, Yamin, Yariv, Zerach and Sha’ul. ²⁵ His son was Shalum, his son was Mivsam, and his son was Mishma. ²⁶ The descendants of Mishma: his son Hamu’el, his son Zakur, his son Shim‘i. ²⁷ Shim‘i had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their clans did not increase like those of Y’hudah. ²⁸ They lived at Be’er-Sheva, Moladah, Hatzar-Shu‘al, ²⁹ Bilhah, ‘Etzem, Tolad, ³⁰ B’tu’el, Hormah, Ziklag, ³¹ Beit-Markavot, Hatzar-Susim, Beit-Bir’i and Sha‘arayim. These were their cities until the reign of David. ³² Their villages were ‘Eitam, ‘Ayin, Rimmon, Tokhen and ‘Ashan, five cities, ³³ along with all the villages surrounding these cities, as far as Ba‘al. These are the places where they lived, and they have their official genealogy. ³⁴ Meshovav, Yamlekh, Yoshah the son of Amatzyah, ³⁵ Yo’el, Yehu the son of Yoshivyah the son of S’rayah the son of ‘Asi’el, ³⁶ Elyo‘einai, Ya‘akovah, Y’shochayah, ‘Asayah, ‘Adi’el, Y’simi’el, B’nayah, ³⁷ Ziza the son of Shif‘i the son of Alon the son of Y’da‘yah the son of Shimri the son of Sh’ma‘yah — ³⁸ these mentioned by name were princes in their clans, and their fathers’ houses increased greatly. ³⁹ Seeking pasture for their flocks they went to the entrance of Geder, as far as the east side of the valley. ⁴⁰ They found rich, good pastures; and the land was spacious, quiet and peaceful. Those who had lived there previously belonged to Ham. ⁴¹ Those whose names are written above came during the time of Hizkiyahu king of Y’hudah; they attacked their tents and the Me‘unim who were found there, destroyed them completely, and have lived there in place of them to this day; because there was pasture there for their flocks. ⁴² Some 500 of them who were descendants of Shim‘on went to Mount Se‘ir under the leadership of P’latyah, Ne‘aryah, Refayah and Uzi’el the sons of Yish‘i. ⁴³ They attacked the remnant of ‘Amalek who had escaped and have lived there to this day.

9 Now the first covenant had both regulations for worship and a Holy Place here on earth. ² A tent was set up, the outer one, which was called the Holy Place; in it were the menorah, the table and the Bread of the Presence. ³ Behind the second parokhet was a tent called the Holiest Place, ⁴ which had the golden altar for burning incense and the Ark of the Covenant, entirely covered with gold. In the Ark were the gold jar containing the man, Aharon’s rod that sprouted and the stone Tablets of the Covenant; ⁵ and above it were the k’ruvim representing the Sh’khinah, casting their shadow on the lid of the Ark — but now is not the time to discuss these things in detail.

⁶ With things so arranged, the cohanim go into the outer tent all the time to discharge their duties; ⁷ but only the cohen hagadol enters the inner one; and he goes in only once a year, and he must always bring blood, which he offers both for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people. ⁸ By this arrangement, the Ruach HaKodesh showed that so long as the first Tent had standing, the way into the Holiest Place was still closed. ⁹ This symbolizes the present age and indicates that the conscience of the person performing the service cannot be brought to the goal by the gifts and sacrifices he offers. ¹⁰ For they involve only food and drink and various ceremonial washings — regulations concerning the outward life, imposed until the time for God to reshape the whole structure.

¹¹ But when the Messiah appeared as cohen gadol of the good things that are happening already, then, through the greater and more perfect Tent which is not man-made (that is, it is not of this created world), ¹² he entered the Holiest Place once and for all.

And he entered not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus setting people free forever. ¹³ For if sprinkling ceremonially unclean persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer restores their outward purity; ¹⁴ then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living God!

¹⁵ It is because of this death that he is mediator of a new covenant [or will].^[a] Because a death has occurred which sets people free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. ¹⁶ For where there is a will, there must necessarily be produced evidence of its maker’s death, ¹⁷ since a will goes into effect only upon death; it never has force while its maker is still alive.

¹⁸ This is why the first covenant too was inaugurated with blood. ¹⁹ After Moshe had proclaimed every command of the Torah to all the people, he took the blood of the calves with some water and used scarlet wool and hyssop to sprinkle both the scroll itself and all the people; ²⁰ and he said, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has ordained for you.”^{[b] 21} Likewise, he sprinkled with the blood both the Tent and all the things used in its ceremonies. ²² In fact, according to the Torah, almost everything is purified with blood; indeed, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

²³ Now this is how the copies of the heavenly things had to be purified, but the heavenly things themselves require better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For the Messiah has entered a Holiest Place which is not man-made and merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

²⁵ Further, he did not enter heaven to offer himself over and over again, like the cohen hagadol who enters the Holiest Place year after year with blood that is not his own; ²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer death many times — from the founding of the universe on. But as it is, he has appeared once at the end of the ages in order to do away with sin through the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ Just as human beings have to die once, but after this comes judgment, ²⁸ so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many,^[c] will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to deliver those who are eagerly waiting for him.

3 “Listen to this word which Adonai has spoken against you, people of Isra’el, against the entire family that I brought up from the land of Egypt: