Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁰ Then David slept with his fathers^[a] and was buried in the city of David. ¹¹ The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years—seven years he reigned in Hebron and 33 years he reigned in Jerusalem. ¹² Then Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was established firmly.

³ Now Solomon loved Adonai, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he kept sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. ⁴ So the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Upon this very altar Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings.

⁵ At Gibeon Adonai appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said: “Ask for what should I give you?”^[a]

⁶ Solomon said: “You have shown my father Your servant David great lovingkindness, as he walked before You in truth, righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You. Indeed, You have kept this great lovingkindness for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. ⁷ So now, Adonai my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. I am but a youth. I don’t know how to go out or come in. ⁸ Your servant is amid Your people, whom You have chosen—a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. ⁹ So give Your servant a mind of understanding to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil—for who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

¹⁰ Now it was pleasing in the eyes of Adonai that Solomon requested this thing. ¹¹ So God said to him: “Because you asked for this thing—and have not asked for yourself long life, nor asked for yourself riches, nor asked for the life of your enemies, but asked for yourself understanding to discern justice— ¹² behold, I have done according to your words. I have given you a wise and discerning mind, so that there has been none like you before you, nor shall anyone like you arise after you. ¹³ Moreover I have also given you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that no one among the kings will be like you all your days. ¹⁴ Furthermore, if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

The Beginning of Wisdom

Psalm 111

¹⁵ So pay close attention to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise. ¹⁶ Make the most of your time because the days are evil. ¹⁷ For this reason do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. ¹⁸ And do not get drunk on wine, for that is recklessness.^[a] Instead, be filled with the Ruach, ¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your heart to the Lord— ²⁰ always giving thanks for everything to God the Father, in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

⁵¹ I am the living bread, which came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. This bread is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

⁵² Then the Jews began arguing with one another, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

⁵³ So Yeshua said to them, “Amen, amen I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. ⁵⁴ He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

⁵⁵ “For My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who eats of Me will also live because of Me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven—not like the bread your fathers ate and then died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”