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Day 145, 25 May 2026
1) 1 Chronicles 26,27,28 Psalms 127
1 Chronicles 26
The Gatekeepers
1 These were the divisions of the gatekeepers:
from the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.
2 Meshelemiah had sons:
Zechariah the firstborn,
Jediael the second,
Zebadiah the third,
Jathniel the fourth,
3 Elam the fifth,
Jehohanan the sixth,
and Eliehoenai the seventh.
4 (1Ch 15:18; 15:24) Obed-Edom had sons:
Shemaiah the firstborn,
Jehozabad the second,
Joah the third,
Sakar the fourth,
Nethanel the fifth,
5Ammiel the sixth,
Issachar the seventh,
and Peullethai the eighth
(for God blessed him).
6 Also to his son Shemaiah sons were born who ruled their fathers' houses,
for they were men of great ability.
7 The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers
were able men: namely Elihu and Semakiah.
8 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom with their sons and their brothers,
able men qualified for service, 62 of Obed-Edom.
9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, able men, eighteen in all.
10 (1Ch 16:38) Also Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the first
(although he was not the firstborn, his father made him the first),
11 Hilkiah the second, Tabaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth:
all the sons and brothers of Hosah, thirteen.
12 These divisions of the gatekeepers, for their chief men, had assignments
to minister in the house of the Lord just as their brothers.
13 (1Ch 25:8; 24:31) They cast lots, small and great alike, according to their
fathers' houses, gate by gate.
14 The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah. Then they cast lots
for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, and his lot came out
for the North Gate;
15 (2Ch 25:24) to Obed-Edom the South Gate, and to his sons was allotted
the storehouse.
16 For Shuppim and Hosah the lot came out for the West Gate,
at the Shalleketh Gate on the ascending road, guard corresponding to guard.
17 On the east there were six Levites each day, on the north four each day,
on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the storehouse.
18 (2Ki 23:11) For the colonnade on the west, there were four at the highway,
and two at the colonnade.
19 These were the divisions of the gatekeepers of the sons of Korah
and of the sons of Merari.
The Treasurers and Other Officials
20 (1Ch 26:22) And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures
of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated offerings.
21 (1Ch 23:7) The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites, belonging
to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging
to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
22 (1Ch 23:8) The sons of Jehieli, Zetham, and Joel his brother, were
in charge of the treasures of the house of the Lord.
23 (Nu 3:27; 1Ch 23:12) From the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites,
and the Uzzielites:
24 (1Ch 24:20) Shubael the son of Gershom, the son of Moses,
was ruler of the treasures.
25 (1Ch 23:17-18) His brothers by Eliezer were Rehabiah his son,
Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zikri his son, and Shelomith his son.
26 (2Sa 8:11) This Shelomith and his brothers were in charge of
all the treasures of the dedicated offerings, which David the king,
the heads of the fathers, the officers of the thousands and the hundreds,
and the commanders of the army had dedicated.
27 Some of the spoils won in battles they dedicated for the maintenance
of the house of the Lord.
28 (1Sa 9:9) Also all that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Kish
and Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated
-all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelomith and his brothers.
29 (1Ch 23:4; Ne 11:16) From the Izharites, Kenaniah and his sons were
assigned the outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.
30 (1Ch 27:17) From the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his brothers, 1700 able men,
were administrators of Israel on the west side of the Jordan for all the work
of the Lord and for the service of the king.
31 (1Ch 23:19; Jos 21:39) Jeriah was chief of the Hebronites according
to the genealogical records of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign
of David, mighty men of valor were found in the records among
the Hebronites at Jazer of Gilead,
32 (2Ch 19:11) and his brothers, able men, 2700 heads of the fathers,
to them King David entrusted all matters of God and of the king concerning
the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 26
Officers and Judges
1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah
the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
2 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael
the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
4 Moreover the sons of Obed-edom were, Shemaiah the firstborn,
Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth,
and Nethaneel the fifth,
5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth:
for God blessed him.
6 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout
the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
7 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad,
whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
8 All these of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons
and their brethren, able men for strength for the service,
were threescore and two of Obed-edom.
9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief,
(for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)
11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth:
all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men,
having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according
to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son,
a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
15 To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate
Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day,
and toward Asuppim two and two.
18 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
19 These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore,
and among the sons of Merari.
20 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God,
and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
21 As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan,
chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli.
22 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over
the treasures of the house of the LORD.
23 Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:
24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses,
was ruler of the treasures.
25 And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son,
and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
26 Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the
dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains
over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate
to maintain the house of the LORD.
28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son
of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had
dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business
over Israel, for officers and judges.
30 And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour,
a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side
Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD,
and in the service of the king.
31 Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites,
according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the
reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them
mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
32 And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred
chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites,
and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God,
and affairs of the king.
1 Chronicles 27
The Military Divisions
1 Now these are the sons of Israel according to their number,
the heads of fathers' houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds,
and their officers who ministered to the king in all matters concerning
the divisions, which came and went, month by month throughout
all the months of the year, to each division of 24000:
2 (2Sa 23:8; 1Ch 11:11) Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel led the first division
for the first month; in his division, 24000.
3 (Nu 26:20) He was from the sons of Perez and was the leader
of all the officers of the army for the first month.
4 (2Sa 23:9; 1Ch 11:12) Dodai the Ahohite and his division led the division
of the second month with Mikloth as the ruler:
in his division, 24000.
5 The third commander of the army for the third month was Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: in his division, 24000.
6 (2Sa 23:20-23) Benaiah himself was the mighty man of the thirty who led
the thirty: Ammizabad his son led his division.
7 (1Ch 11:26; 2Sa 23:24) The fourth for the fourth month, Asahel the brother
of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: in his division, 24000.
8 (1Ch 11:27; 2Sa 23:25) The fifth for the fifth month, the leader Shamhuth
the Izrahite: in his division, 24000.
9 (1Ch 11:28; 2Sa 23:26T) he sixth for the sixth month, Ira the son of Ikkesh
the Tekoite: in his division, 24000.
10 (1Ch 11:27; 2Sa 23:26) The seventh for the seventh month,
Helez the Pelonite, from the sons of Ephraim:
in his division, 24000.
11 (2Sa 21:18; 1Ch 11:29) The eighth for the eighth month, Sibbekai
the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: in his division, 24000.
12 (1Ch 11:28; 2Sa 23:27) The ninth for the ninth month, Abiezer
the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: in his division, 24000.
13 (1Ch 11:30; 2Sa 23:28) The tenth for the tenth month, Maharai
the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: in his division, 24000.
14 (1Ch 11:31) The eleventh for the eleventh month, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
from the sons of Ephraim: in his division, 24000.
15 (2Sa 23:29; Jdg 3:9) The twelfth for the twelfth month,
Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: in his division, 24000.
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Day 143, 23 May 2025
1)1 Chronicles 23 , 1 Chronicles 24 , 1 Chronicles 25
1 Chronicles 23
The Levites
1 (1Ch 29:28; 1Ki 1:33-39; 1Ch 28:5) Now David was old and full of days
when he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
2 So he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests
and the Levites.
3 (1Ch 23:24) The Levites from thirty years old and up were counted,
and their head count of men was 38000.
4 (2Ch 19:8; Dt 16:18) 24000 of these, David said, "shall have charge
of the work in the house of the Lord; six thousand shall be officers
and judges,
5 (2Ch 29:25-26; Am 6:5) four thousand shall be gatekeepers,
and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments
that I have made for praise."
6 (1Ch 6:1; 2Ch 8:14) David assigned them to divisions according to the sons
of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Gershonites
7 (1 Ch 26:21) From the Gershonites:
Ladan and Shimei.
8 The sons of Ladan were
first Jehiel, then Zetham and Joel, three in all.
9 The sons of Shimei were
Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran, three.
These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan.
10 The sons of Shimei were
Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah.
These four were the sons of Shimei.
11 Now Jahath was the first and Ziza the second, but Jeush and Beriah
did not have many sons, so they were counted as one unit
for their father's house.
Kohathites
12 (Ex 6:18) The sons of Kohath were
Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four in all.
13 (Ex 6:20; Dt 21:5) The sons of Amram were
Aaron and Moses,
but Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things,
he and his sons forever, to offer sacrifices before the Lord,
to minister to Him, and to bless in His name forever.
14 (Dt 33:1; 1Ch 26:23-25) As for Moses, the man of God,
his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
15(Ex 2:22; 18:3-4)The sons of Moses were
Gershom and Eliezer.
16 (1Ch 26:24) The son of Gershom was
Shubael the chief.
17The son of Eliezer was
Rehabiah the chief.
Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
18The son of Izhar was
Shelomith the chief.
19 (1Ch 24:23) The sons of Hebron were
Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third,
and Jekameam the fourth.
20 The sons of Uzziel were
Micah the first and Ishiah the second.
Merarites
21 (Ex 6:19) The sons of Merari were
Mahli and Mushi.
The sons of Mahli were
Eleazar and Kish.
22 (1Ch 24:28) Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters, so the sons
of Kish, their brothers, took them as wives.
23 (1Ch 24:30)The sons of Mushi were
Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth, three.
24 (Nu 10:17; 10:21) These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers'
houses, the heads of the fathers' houses as they were registered
by the number of their names according to their head count,
those doing the work for the service of the house of the Lord,
from twenty years old and up.
25 (1Ch 22:18) For David said, "The Lord, the God of Israel, has given rest
to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever.
26 (Nu 4:5; 7:9) And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle
and all its implements for its service."
27 (1Ch 23:24) For by the last words of David, the sons of Levi were numbered
from twenty years old and up;
28 (Ne 13:9) because their duty was to help the sons of Aaron in the service
of the house of the Lord, in the courts and in the chambers,
with the purifying of all holy things, even the work of service
of the house of God,
29 (Lev 19:35-36; Ex 25:30) and with the showbread, the fine flour for
a grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering,
the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity and size,
30 (1Ch 9:33) to stand morning by morning to thank and praise the Lord,
and likewise in the evening,
31 (Isa 1:13-14) and to offer up all burnt offerings to the Lord,
for Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, by number
as the judgment concerning them, continually before the Lord,
32 (Nu 1:53; 3:6-9) and that they should keep charge of the tent
of meeting and the sanctuary and attend to the sons of Aaron,
their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 23
Temple Appointments
1 So when David was old and full of days,
he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
Priests and Levites
2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel,
with the priests and the Levites.
3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward:
and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work
of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
5 moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD
with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,
namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were,
the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
10 And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah.
These four were the sons of Shimei.
11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah
had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning,
according to their father's house.
12 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated,
that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever,
to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him,
and to bless in his name for ever.
14 Now concerning Moses the man of God,
his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.
15 The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.
16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
17 And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief.
And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first, and Jesiah the second.
21 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren
the sons of Kish took them.
23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers;
even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names
by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD,
from the age of twenty years and upward.
25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,
that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
26 and also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle,
nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered
from twenty years old and above:
28 because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service
of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers,
and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service
of the house of God;
29 both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering,
and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan,
and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD,
and likewise at even;
31 and to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths,
in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according
to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
32 and that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of
the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 24
Priestly Divisions Assigned
1 (Ex 6:23; Nu 3:2) Now the divisions of the sons of Aaron were these.
The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
2 (Lev 10:2; Nu 3:4) But Nadab and Abihu died before their father,
and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
3 (2Sa 8:17; 1Ch 24:31) Then David, along with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar
and Ahimelek of the sons of Ithamar, divided them to their offices
by their service.
4 Since the sons of Eleazar were found to have more chief men than the sons
of Ithamar, they divided them into sixteen heads of the fathers' houses
for the sons of Eleazar, and eight for the sons of Ithamar, according
to their fathers' houses.
5 (1Ch 24:31) So they divided them by lots, the one as the other, for there
were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among
both the sons of Eleazar and Ithamar.
6 (1Ch 18:16) Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, the Levite scribe, wrote them
down in the presence of the king, the leaders, Zadok the priest, Ahimelek
the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests
and the Levites, one father's house taken for Eleazar and one for Ithamar.
7 (Ezr 2:36) The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
8 (Ezr 2:39) the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
9 the fifth to Malkijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
10 (Lk 1:5; Ne 12:4) the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shekaniah,
12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
17 the twenty-first to Jakin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
18 the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
19 (1Ch 9:25) These were their appointments for their service to come
into the house of the Lord according to the schedule prescribed for them
by Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.
Remaining Levite Assignments
20 Now for the remaining sons of Levi:
from the sons of Amram, Shubael;
from the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
21 (1Ch 23:17) For Rehabiah: from the sons of Rehabiah,
the first was Ishiah.
22 (1Ch 23:18) From the Izharites, Shelomoth;
from the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
23 (1Ch 23:19) The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
24 (1Ch 23:20) The sons of Uzziel, Micah;
from the sons of Micah, Shamir.
25 The brother of Micah, Ishiah;
from the sons of Ishiah, Zechariah.
26 The sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi;
the son of Jaaziah, Beno.
27 The sons of Merari:
by Jaaziah were Beno, Shoham, Zakkur, and Ibri.
28 (1Ch 23:22) For Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
29 For Kish: the son of Kish,
Jerahmeel.
30 (1Ch 23:23) The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth.
These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
31 (1Ch 24:5-6; 25:8) These also cast lots just as their brothers,
the sons of Aaron, in the presence of David the king, Zadok,
Ahimelek, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests
and of the Levites, the head of the fathers' houses as well
as his younger brother.
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Day 137, 17 May 2026
today at
Calvary Community Church
, Pastor Barry Regier joined by His wife Lori-Anne spoke on Living
Counter-Cultural ... Goldy Marriages ... Wives
We stand in respect becuase we blieve when Scripute is opeoend, God speakes.
check Nehemiah 8.
A) Accept you husband's authority
1 Peter 3:1a
Likewise you wives, be submissive to your own husbands, (MEB)
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; (KJV)
1 Peter 2:13
13 (Titus 3:1) Submit yourselves to every human authority for the Lord's sake,
whether it be to the king, as supreme,
[13] Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake:
whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Ephesians 5:22
22 (Ge 3:16; 1Co 14:34) Wives, be submissive to your own husbands
as unto the Lord.
[22] Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:18
18 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands,
as it is fitting in the Lord.
[18] Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the
Lord.
1 Peter 3:1b-2
so that if any do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the
conduct of their wives,
2 as they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
that, if any
obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation
of the wives;
[2] While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1 Peter 2:21-25
21 (Ac 14:22; Mt 16:24) For to this you were called, because Christ suffered
for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:
22 (Isa 53:9; 2Co 5:21) "He committed no sin,
nor was deceit found in His mouth."(Isa 53:9.)
23 (Isa 53:7; Lk 23:46) When He was reviled, He did not revile back; when He
suffered, He did not threaten, but He entrusted Himself to Him who judges
righteously.
24 (Ro 6:2; 6:11) He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.
"By His wounds you were healed."(Isa 53:5).
25 (Isa 53:6; Ps 119:176)
For you were as sheep going astray, but now have been returned
to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
[21] For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
[22] Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
[23] Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he
threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
[24] Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we,
being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were
healed.
[25] For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
B) Pursue Inner beauty
1 Peter 3:3-5
3 (Isa 3:18-24) Do not let your adorning be the outward adorning
of braiding the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine clothing.
4 (Ro 7:22; Ps 149:4) But let it be the hidden nature of the heart, that which
is not corruptible, even the ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is
very precious in the sight of God.
5 (1Ti 5:5) For in this manner, in the old times, the holy women, who trusted
in God, adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands,
[3] Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair,
and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
[4] But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not
corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the
sight of God of great price.
[5] For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted
in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter 3:4
4 (Ro 7:22; Ps 149:4) But let it be the hidden nature of the heart, that which
is not corruptible, even the ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is
very precious in the sight of God.
[4] But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not
corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the
sight of God of great price.
Proverbs 11:22
22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout,
so is a fair woman who is without discretion.
22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout,
So is a fair woman which is without discretion.
praus - Strength under control
Phillipians 4:8
8 (Ac 6:3; 10:22) Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever
things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report,
if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.
[8] Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
1 Peter 3:5
5 (1Ti 5:5) For in this manner, in the old times, the holy women, who trusted
in God, adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands,
[5] For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted
in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
C) Trust God above all
1 Peter 3:6
6 (Ge 18:12) even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You are her
children as long as you do right and are not afraid with any terror.
[6] Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are,
as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Not perfection. But Christlikeness.
Ephesians 5:21-33
Walk as Children of Light
21 (Php 2:3; Eph 5:22) being submissive to one another in the fear of God.
[21] Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Wives and Husbands
22 (Ge 3:16; 1Co 14:34) Wives, be submissive to your own husbands
as unto the Lord.
23 (Eph 1:22-23; Col 1:18) For the husband is the head of the wife,
just as Christ is the head and Savior of the church, which is His body.
24 (Col 3:20; 3:22) But as the church submits to Christ,
so also let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 (Eph 5:28; Col 3:19) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
also loved the church and gave Himself for it,
26 (Ac 22:16; 1Co 6:11) that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing
of water by the word,
27 (2Co 11:2; Col 1:22; Eph 1:4) and that He might present to Himself
a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,
but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 (Eph 5:25; 5:33) In this way men ought to love their wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it,
just as the Lord cares for the church.
30 (1Co 6:15; Ge 2:23) For we are members of His body, of His flesh
and of His bones.
31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh."(Ge 2:24. )
32 This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
33 (Eph 5:25) However, let each one of you love his wife as himself,
and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
[22] Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
[23] For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
[24] Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to
their own husbands in every thing.
[25] Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and
gave himself for it;
[26] That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word,
[27] That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot,
or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.
[28] So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife loveth himself.
[29] For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth
it, even as the Lord the church:
[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 two shall be one flesh.
[32] This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
[33] Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even
as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Day 136, 16 May 2026
1) Psalms 26,40,58,61,62,64
Psalms 26
A Psalm of David.
1 Judge me, O Lord,
for I have walked in my integrity.
I have trusted in the Lord;
I will not slip.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Examine me, O Lord, and test me;
try my affections and my heart.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5 ) For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes,
and I have walked in Your truth.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) I have not sat with the worthless,
nor will I go with hypocrites.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) I have hated the congregation of evildoers,
and will not sit with the wicked.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) I will wash my hands in innocence;
thus I will go around Your altar, O Lord,
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) that I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,
and tell of all Your wondrous works.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Lord, I have loved the refuge of Your house,
and the place where Your honor dwells.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2 ) Do not gather my soul with sinners,
nor my life with murderers,
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) in whose hands is wickedness,
and their right hand is full of bribes.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) But as for me, I will walk in my integrity;
redeem me and be gracious to me.
12 My foot stands in an even place;
with the congregations I will bless the Lord.
Psalm 26
[1] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted
also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
[2] Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
[3] For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes:
and I have walked in thy truth.
[4] I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
[5] I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the
wicked.
[6] I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O
LORD:
[7] That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy
wondrous works.
[8] LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where
thine honour dwelleth.
[9] Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
[10] In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
[11] But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be
merciful unto me.
[12] My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless
the LORD.
Psalms 40
Ps 70:1-5
For the Music Director. A Psalm of David.
1 I waited patiently for the Lord,
and He turned to me, and heard my cry.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
out of the miry clay,
and set my feet on a rock,
and established my steps.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) He has put a new song in my mouth,
even praise to our God;
many will see it, and fear,
and will trust in the Lord.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Blessed is the man
who places trust in the Lord,
but does not turn toward the proud,
nor those falling away to falsehood.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) O Lord my God,
You have done many wonderful works,
and Your thoughts toward us
cannot be compared;
if I would declare and speak of them,
they are more than can be numbered.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9 ) Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
You have opened up my ears to listen.
Burnt offering and sin offering
You have not required.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) Then I said, "Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me,
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your law is within my inward parts."
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) I have proclaimed righteousness in the great congregation;
I have not held back my lips,
O Lord, You know.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth
from the great congregation.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Do not withhold Your compassion from me, O Lord;
may Your lovingkindness and Your truth always guard me.
12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me;
my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
they are more than the hairs of my head
so that my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;
O Lord, make haste to help me.
14 May those seeking to snatch away my life
be ashamed and confounded together;
may those who desire my harm
be driven backward and dishonored.
15 May those who say to me "Aha, aha!"
be appalled on account of their shame.
16 May all those who seek You
rejoice and be glad in You;
may those who love Your salvation say continually,
"The Lord is magnified."
17 But I am poor and needy;
yet the Lord thinks about me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
do not delay, O my God.
Psalm 40
[1] I waited patiently for the LORD;
and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
[2] He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and
set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
[3] And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many
shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
[4] Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not
the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
[5] Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and
thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto
thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be
numbered.
[6] Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
[7] Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
[8] I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
[9] I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not
refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
[10] I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy
faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and
thy truth from the great congregation.
[11] Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
[12] For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have
taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the
hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
[13] Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
[14] Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to
destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
[15] Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha,
aha.
[16] Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as
love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
[17] But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my
help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms 58
For the Music Director. To the melody of "Do Not Destroy."A Miktam of David.
1 Do you truly speak righteousness, O heavenly gods?
Do you judge uprightly, O earthly men?
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Indeed, in the heart you work wickedness;
you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) The wicked are estranged from the womb onward;
those who speak lies go astray from birth.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
they are like the deaf adder that plugs its ear,
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) and will not listen to the voice of charmers,
even the best and wisest enchanter.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) Break their teeth in their mouth, O God;
break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) May they melt away as waters which run continually;
when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be trodden under.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) May they become as a snail that melts as it goes,
like the untimely birth of a woman, may they not see the sun.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) Before your pots can feel the thorns- heat, green or burning,
may He sweep them away.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) and people will say,
"Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who judges on the earth."
Psalm 58
[1] Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly,
O ye sons of men?
[2] Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in
the earth.
[3] The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they
be born, speaking lies.
[4] Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf
adder that stoppeth her ear;
[5] Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
[6] Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of
the young lions, O LORD.
[7] Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his
bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
[8] As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the
untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
[9] Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a
whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
[10] The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked.
[11] So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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12 (Jn 15:26; Da 8:13) It was revealed to them that they were not serving
themselves but you, concerning the things which are now reported to you by
those who have preached the gospel to you through the Holy Spirit, who was
sent from heaven-things into which the angels desire to look.
[3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according
to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
[4] To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you,
[5] Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to
be revealed in the last time.
[6] Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are
in heaviness through manifold temptations:
[7] That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that
perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and
honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
[8] Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet
believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
[9] Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
[10] Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
[11] Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was
in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ,
and the glory that should follow.
[12] Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they
did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have
preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;
which things the angels desire to look into.
A Call to Holy Living
13 (1Pe 4:7; 5:8) Therefore guard your minds, be sober, and hope to the end
for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14 (Ro 12:2; Ac 17:30) As obedient children do not conduct yourselves
according to the former lusts in your ignorance.
15 (2Co 7:1; Heb 12:14) But as He who has called you is holy, so be holy
in all your conduct,
16 (Lev 11:44; 19:2) because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."
(Lev 11:44; 19:2; 20:7.)
17 (Mt 6:9; 2Co 7:1) And if you address as Father the One who impartially
judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the
time of your sojourning.
18 (1Co 6:20) For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way
of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver
or gold,
19 (Jn 1:29; Ex 12:5) but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot.
20 (Eph 1:4; Col 1:26) He was foreordained before the creation of the world,
but was revealed in these last times for you.
21 (Heb 2:9; Jn 12:44) Through Him you believe in God who raised Him up
from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be
in God.
22 (Heb 13:1; Jas 4:8) Since your souls have been purified by obedience to
the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another
deeply with a pure heart,
23 (Heb 4:12; 1Pe 1:3) for you have been born again, not from perishable seed,
but imperishable, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.
24 (Isa 40:6-8; Jas 1:10-11) For
"All flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
25 (Isa 40:8) but the word of the Lord endures forever."
This is the word that was preached to you.
[13] Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end
for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus
Christ;
[14] As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former
lusts in your ignorance:
[15] But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation;
[16] Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
[17] And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth
according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in
fear:
[18] Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from
your fathers;
[19] But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot:
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Day 125, 5 May 2025
1) 2 Samuel 7:1-17, 1 Chronicles 17:1-15,
2 Samuel 7:18-29, 1 Chronicles 17:16-27
2 SAMUEL 7
God's Covenant With David
1Ch 17:1-15
1 Now when the king settled into his house
and the Lord had given him rest from all
of his enemies on all sides,
2 (2Sa 5:11; 12:1) the king said to Nathan the prophet,
"I am dwelling in a cedar house, but the ark of God is sitting in a tent."
3 (1Ki 8:17-18; 1Ch 22:7) Nathan said to the king,
"Go, do all that is in your heart because the Lord is with you."
4 That night the word of the Lord came to Nathan:
5 Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord:
Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell?
6 (1Ki 8:16; Ex 40:18-19) I have not dwelt in a house since the day
I brought the sons of Israel from Egypt until this day.
I have been moving about with a tent as My dwelling.
7 (Lev 26:11-12; 2Sa 5:2) Wherever I have moved with all the sons of Israel,
have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel,
whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying,
"Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?"
8 (2Sa 6:21; 1Sa 16:11-12) Now therefore, you will say to My servant
David: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture,
from following after the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.
9 (2Sa 5:10; 1Ch 17:8) I have been with you wherever you have gone,
and I have cut off all of your enemies before you.
I will make your name great, like the great ones across the land.
10 (Ps 89:22-23; Isa 60:18) Moreover, I will appoint a place
for My people Israel. I will plant them, and they will dwell
in that very place. They will be restless no longer,
and the unjust will no longer oppress them, as in former times,
11 (1Sa 12:9-11; 2Sa 7:1) ever since the day in which I appointed judges
over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all of your enemies.
The Lord declares to you that He will instead bring about a house for you.
12 (1Ki 8:20; 2:1; Dt 31:16) When your days are complete and you lie down
with your fathers, I will raise up after you an offspring from your body,
and I will establish his rule.
13 (1Ki 8:19; 5:5) He will build a house for My name,
and I will establish his royal throne forever.
14 (Heb 1:5; 1Ch 17:13) I will be a father to him,
and he will be a son to Me. When he goes astray,
I will correct him with the rod of men and afflictions of the sons of men.
15 (1Sa 15:23; 15:28) My commitment will not abandon him, as I removed
it from Saul, whom I deposed before you.
16 (2Sa 7:13; Ps 89:36-37) Your house and dominion will endure before
Me forever, and your throne will be established by the Lord forever.
17 So Nathan spoke to David in accordance with all of these words
and the entirety of this vision.
2 Samuel 7
[1] And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had
given him rest round about from all his enemies;
[2] That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house
of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
[3] And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the
LORD is with thee.
[4] And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto
Nathan, saying,
[5] Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me
an house for me to dwell in?
[6] Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up
the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a
tent and in a tabernacle.
[7] In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel
spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my
people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
[8] Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to
be ruler over my people, over Israel:
[9] And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all
thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto
the name of the great men that are in the earth.
[10] Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither
shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
[11] And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people
Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD
telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
[12] And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,
I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels,
and I will establish his kingdom.
[13] He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of
his kingdom for ever.
[14] I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I
will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children
of men:
[15] But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul,
whom I put away before thee.
[16] And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before
thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
[17] According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did
Nathan speak unto David.
1 CHRONICLES 17
The Davidic Covenant
2Sa 7:1-17
1 (1Ch 15:1; 17:5) Now it happened as David dwelt in his house
that he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am dwelling in a house of cedar
while the ark of the Lord is under curtains."
2 So Nathan said to David,
"Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you."
3 But it happened on that same night that the word of the Lord came
to Nathan, saying,
4 (1Ch 28:2-3) Go and tell David My servant: Thus says the Lord:
You will not build a house for Me to dwell in,
52 (Sa 7:6; Ex 40:2-3) for I have not dwelt in a house since the day
when I brought Israel up even until this day, but I have gone from
tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.
6 (2Sa 7:7) Wherever I have gone in all Israel, have I ever spoken
a word to the any of the judges of Israel that I commanded
to shepherd My people, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?
7 (2Sa 6:21) And now say this to My servant David:
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture,
from following after the flock, to be ruler over My people Israel,
8 and I have been with you wherever you went,
and I have cut off all your enemies from before you.
Also I will make your name like the names of the greatest on earth.
9 And I will appoint a place for My people Israel,
and I will plant them there where they will dwell securely
and tremble no more, so that the sons of wickedness will not oppress
them just as before
10 (2Sa 7:11) from the time when I commanded the judges
of My people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies.
And I declare to you the Lord will build a house for you.
11 (Ps 132:11) Then it will be when your days are full
and you go to your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you
from your own sons. His kingdom I will establish.
12 (1Ki 5:5; Isa 9:7) He is the one who will build Me a house,
and I will establish his throne forever.
13 (Heb 1:5; 1Sa 15:28) I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me.
I will not take away My favor from him as I did from
the one who was before you.
14 I will assign him a place in My house and in My kingdom forever,
and his throne will be established for all time.
15 Thus, Nathan spoke to David all these words
and according to all this vision.
1 Chronicles 17
The House of the Lord
1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said
to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars,
but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart;
for God is with thee.
3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came
to Nathan, saying,
4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me
an house to dwell in:
5 for I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel
unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle
to another.
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the
judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye
not built me an house of cedars?
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following
the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 and I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut
off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like
the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them,
and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither
shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
10 and since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel.
Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that
the LORD will build thee an house.
11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must
go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee,
which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take
my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 but I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever:
and his throne shall be established for evermore.
15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
so did Nathan speak unto David.
2 SAMUEL 7
The Prayer of David
1Ch 17:16-27
18 (Ex 3:11; 1Sa 18:18) Then King David went in and sat before the Lord.
He said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that
You have brought me this far?
19 (1Ch 17:17; Isa 55:8-9) Yet this was comparatively insignificant
in Your sight, Lord God, for You have also spoken about Your servant's
house into the distant future. Is this Your manner with man, Lord God?
20 (1Sa 16:7; Jn 21:17) "What more can David say to You?
You know Your servant, Lord God.
21 Because of Your word, according to Your will, You have done
all of this greatness to inform Your servant.
22 (Ex 15:11; Dt 3:24) "Therefore You are great, Lord God. There is none
like You, and there is no God except You, according to everything that
we have heard with our ears.
23 (Dt 9:26; 10:21) And who is like Your people, like Israel-a single nation
in the land, whom God went to redeem as a people for Himself,
making a name for Himself by doing great and awesome things for Your land,
before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt,
a nation and its gods.
24 (Dt 26:18; Ge 17:7) You established Your people Israel as Your own people
forever, and You, Lord, became their God.
25 "Now, Lord God, confirm forever the word that You spoke regarding
Your servant and his house and do as You have spoken.
26 (1Ch 17:23-24; Ps 72:18-19) May Your name be magnified forever
by saying, 'The Lord of Hosts is God over Israel,' and may the house
of Your servant David be established before You.
27 "For You, O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, have revealed a word
to Your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore,
Your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to You.
28 (Jn 17:17) Now, Lord God, You are God, and Your words are true.
You have spoken this good message to Your servant.
29 (Nu 6:24-26; 2Sa 22:51) Now, be resolved and bless Your servant's
dynastic house, so that it may stand before You forever.
You, Lord God, have spoken, and with Your blessing,
the house of Your servant will be blessed forever."
Posted by DSY on
Day 125, 5 May 2025
1) 2 Samuel 7:1-17, 1 Chronicles 17:1-15,
2 Samuel 7:18-29, 1 Chronicles 17:16-27
2 SAMUEL 7
God's Covenant With David
1Ch 17:1-15
1 Now when the king settled into his house
and the Lord had given him rest from all
of his enemies on all sides,
2 (2Sa 5:11; 12:1) the king said to Nathan the prophet,
"I am dwelling in a cedar house, but the ark of God is sitting in a tent."
3 (1Ki 8:17-18; 1Ch 22:7) Nathan said to the king,
"Go, do all that is in your heart because the Lord is with you."
4 That night the word of the Lord came to Nathan:
5 Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord:
Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell?
6 (1Ki 8:16; Ex 40:18-19) I have not dwelt in a house since the day
I brought the sons of Israel from Egypt until this day.
I have been moving about with a tent as My dwelling.
7 (Lev 26:11-12; 2Sa 5:2) Wherever I have moved with all the sons of Israel,
have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel,
whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying,
"Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?"
8 (2Sa 6:21; 1Sa 16:11-12) Now therefore, you will say to My servant
David: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture,
from following after the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.
9 (2Sa 5:10; 1Ch 17:8) I have been with you wherever you have gone,
and I have cut off all of your enemies before you.
I will make your name great, like the great ones across the land.
10 (Ps 89:22-23; Isa 60:18) Moreover, I will appoint a place
for My people Israel. I will plant them, and they will dwell
in that very place. They will be restless no longer,
and the unjust will no longer oppress them, as in former times,
11 (1Sa 12:9-11; 2Sa 7:1) ever since the day in which I appointed judges
over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all of your enemies.
The Lord declares to you that He will instead bring about a house for you.
12 (1Ki 8:20; 2:1; Dt 31:16) When your days are complete and you lie down
with your fathers, I will raise up after you an offspring from your body,
and I will establish his rule.
13 (1Ki 8:19; 5:5) He will build a house for My name,
and I will establish his royal throne forever.
14 (Heb 1:5; 1Ch 17:13) I will be a father to him,
and he will be a son to Me. When he goes astray,
I will correct him with the rod of men and afflictions of the sons of men.
15 (1Sa 15:23; 15:28) My commitment will not abandon him, as I removed
it from Saul, whom I deposed before you.
16 (2Sa 7:13; Ps 89:36-37) Your house and dominion will endure before
Me forever, and your throne will be established by the Lord forever.
17 So Nathan spoke to David in accordance with all of these words
and the entirety of this vision.
2 Samuel 7
[1] And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had
given him rest round about from all his enemies;
[2] That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house
of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
[3] And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the
LORD is with thee.
[4] And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto
Nathan, saying,
[5] Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me
an house for me to dwell in?
[6] Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up
the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a
tent and in a tabernacle.
[7] In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel
spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my
people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
[8] Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to
be ruler over my people, over Israel:
[9] And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all
thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto
the name of the great men that are in the earth.
[10] Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither
shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
[11] And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people
Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD
telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
[12] And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,
I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels,
and I will establish his kingdom.
[13] He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of
his kingdom for ever.
[14] I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I
will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children
of men:
[15] But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul,
whom I put away before thee.
[16] And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before
thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
[17] According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did
Nathan speak unto David.
1 CHRONICLES 17
The Davidic Covenant
2Sa 7:1-17
1 (1Ch 15:1; 17:5) Now it happened as David dwelt in his house
that he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am dwelling in a house of cedar
while the ark of the Lord is under curtains."
2 So Nathan said to David,
"Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you."
3 But it happened on that same night that the word of the Lord came
to Nathan, saying,
4 (1Ch 28:2-3) Go and tell David My servant: Thus says the Lord:
You will not build a house for Me to dwell in,
52 (Sa 7:6; Ex 40:2-3) for I have not dwelt in a house since the day
when I brought Israel up even until this day, but I have gone from
tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.
6 (2Sa 7:7) Wherever I have gone in all Israel, have I ever spoken
a word to the any of the judges of Israel that I commanded
to shepherd My people, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?
7 (2Sa 6:21) And now say this to My servant David:
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture,
from following after the flock, to be ruler over My people Israel,
8 and I have been with you wherever you went,
and I have cut off all your enemies from before you.
Also I will make your name like the names of the greatest on earth.
9 And I will appoint a place for My people Israel,
and I will plant them there where they will dwell securely
and tremble no more, so that the sons of wickedness will not oppress
them just as before
10 (2Sa 7:11) from the time when I commanded the judges
of My people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies.
And I declare to you the Lord will build a house for you.
11 (Ps 132:11) Then it will be when your days are full
and you go to your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you
from your own sons. His kingdom I will establish.
12 (1Ki 5:5; Isa 9:7) He is the one who will build Me a house,
and I will establish his throne forever.
13 (Heb 1:5; 1Sa 15:28) I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me.
I will not take away My favor from him as I did from
the one who was before you.
14 I will assign him a place in My house and in My kingdom forever,
and his throne will be established for all time.
15 Thus, Nathan spoke to David all these words
and according to all this vision.
1 Chronicles 17
The House of the Lord
1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said
to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars,
but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart;
for God is with thee.
3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came
to Nathan, saying,
4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me
an house to dwell in:
5 for I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel
unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle
to another.
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the
judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye
not built me an house of cedars?
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following
the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 and I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut
off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like
the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them,
and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither
shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
10 and since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel.
Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that
the LORD will build thee an house.
11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must
go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee,
which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take
my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 but I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever:
and his throne shall be established for evermore.
15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
so did Nathan speak unto David.
2 SAMUEL 7
The Prayer of David
1Ch 17:16-27
18 (Ex 3:11; 1Sa 18:18) Then King David went in and sat before the Lord.
He said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that
You have brought me this far?
19 (1Ch 17:17; Isa 55:8-9) Yet this was comparatively insignificant
in Your sight, Lord God, for You have also spoken about Your servant's
house into the distant future. Is this Your manner with man, Lord God?
20 (1Sa 16:7; Jn 21:17) "What more can David say to You?
You know Your servant, Lord God.
21 Because of Your word, according to Your will, You have done
all of this greatness to inform Your servant.
22 (Ex 15:11; Dt 3:24) "Therefore You are great, Lord God. There is none
like You, and there is no God except You, according to everything that
we have heard with our ears.
23 (Dt 9:26; 10:21) And who is like Your people, like Israel-a single nation
in the land, whom God went to redeem as a people for Himself,
making a name for Himself by doing great and awesome things for Your land,
before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt,
a nation and its gods.
24 (Dt 26:18; Ge 17:7) You established Your people Israel as Your own people
forever, and You, Lord, became their God.
25 "Now, Lord God, confirm forever the word that You spoke regarding
Your servant and his house and do as You have spoken.
26 (1Ch 17:23-24; Ps 72:18-19) May Your name be magnified forever
by saying, 'The Lord of Hosts is God over Israel,' and may the house
of Your servant David be established before You.
27 "For You, O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, have revealed a word
to Your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore,
Your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to You.
28 (Jn 17:17) Now, Lord God, You are God, and Your words are true.
You have spoken this good message to Your servant.
29 (Nu 6:24-26; 2Sa 22:51) Now, be resolved and bless Your servant's
dynastic house, so that it may stand before You forever.
You, Lord God, have spoken, and with Your blessing,
the house of Your servant will be blessed forever."
Posted by DSY on
Day 123, 3 May 2025
Today at
Calvary Comunity church , Pastor Barry Regier spoke on
Living for Christ - Showing up with what you got!
1 Peter 4:10-11
10 (Mt 13:17; Lk 10:24) Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied
of the grace that should come to you have inquired and searched diligently,
11 (2Pe 1:21; Isa 52:13-14) seeking the events and time the Spirit of Christ,
who was within them, signified when He foretold the sufferings of Christ
and the glories to follow.
[10] Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
[11] Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was
in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ,
and the glory that should follow.
Ephesians 4:16
16 (Col 2:19; Eph 1:4) from whom the whole body is joined together
and connected by every joint and ligament, as every part effectively
does its work and grows, building itself up in love.
[16] From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that
which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of
itself in love
a) Do you have anything to offer? 1 Peter 4:10
b) Does what I have really matter? 1 Peter 4:10
c) What is it actually for? 1 Peter 4:10-11, Ephesians 4:16
d) Do I have what it takes? 1 Peter 4:11
e) What's the point of all of this? 1 Peter 4:10-11, Ephesians 4:16
1) Psalms 1, 2, 15, 22, 23, 24, 47, 68
Psalms 1
BOOK ONE
Psalms 1-41
1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor stands in the path of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and in His law he meditates day and night.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that brings forth its fruit in its season;
its leaf will not wither,
and whatever he does will prosper.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) The ungodly are not so,
but are like the chaff
which the wind drives away.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Therefore the ungodly will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the ungodly will perish.
Psalm 1
[1] Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
[2] But his delight is in the law of the LORD;
And in his law doth he meditate day and night.
[3] And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
That bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
His leaf also shall not wither;
And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
[4] The ungodly are not so:
But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
[5] Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
[6] For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous:
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalms 2
1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord
and against His anointed, saying,
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) "Let us tear off their bonds
and cast away their ropes from us."
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord ridicules them.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Then He will speak to them in His wrath
and terrify them in His burning anger:
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) "I have installed My king on Zion, My holy hill."
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) I will declare the decree of the Lord:
He said to me, "You are My son; this day have I begotten you.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Ask of Me,
and I will give you the nations for your inheritance,
and the ends of the earth for your possession.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) You will break them with a scepter of iron;
you will dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) Now then, you kings, be wise;
be admonished, you judges of the earth.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Serve the Lord with fear; tremble with trepidation!
12 Kiss the son, lest He become angry, and you perish in the way,
for His wrath kindles in a flash. Blessed are all who seek refuge in Him.
Psalm 2
[1] Why do the heathen rage, And the people imagine a vain thing?
[2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel
together, Against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
[3] Let us break their bands asunder, And cast away their cords from us.
[4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:
The Lord shall have them in derision.
[5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath,
And vex them in his sore displeasure.
[6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
[7] I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me,
Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
[8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance,
And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
[9]Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron;
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
[10]Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: Be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
[11] Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
[12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way,
When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in him.
PSALMS 15
A Psalm of David.
1 Lord, who will abide in Your tabernacle?
Who will dwell in Your holy hill?
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2 )He who walks uprightly,
and does righteousness,
and speaks truth in his heart;
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) he who does not slander with the tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor bears a reproach against his friend;
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
but who honors those who fear the Lord;
he who swears to avoid evil
and does not change;
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) he who does not put his money out to usury,
nor take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things
will never be moved.
Psalm 15
[1] LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy
hill?
[2] He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the
truth in his heart.
[3] He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour,
nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
[4] In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that
fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
[5] He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against
the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
PSALMS 22
For the Music Director. To the melody of "The Doe of the Dawn."
A Psalm of David.
1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from deliveringme,
and from my roaring words of distress?
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not answer;
and at night, but I have no rest.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) But You are holy,
O You who inhabits the praises of Israel.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Our fathers trusted in You;
they trusted, and You did deliver them.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5 )They cried to You and were delivered;
they trusted in You and were not put to shame.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) But I am a worm, and not a man;
a reproach of men and despised by the people.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) All who see me laugh me to scorn;
they sneer with the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) "Trust in the Lord,
let Him deliver him;
let Him rescue him,
seeing He delights in him."
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) But You are He who took me out of the womb;
You caused me to trust
while I was on my mother's breasts.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17 ) I was cast on You from birth;
You are my God from my mother's womb.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Be not far from me
for trouble is near,
for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls encircle me;
strong bulls of Bashan surround me.
13 They open their mouths against me,
as a preying and roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted inside my body.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
and You have set me toward the dust of death.
16 For dogs have encompassed me;
the assembly of the wicked has enclosed me;
like a lion they pin my hands and my feet;
17 I can count all my bones;
they look and stare on me.
18 They part my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothes.
19 But do not be far from me, O Lord;
O my Help, hasten to my aid.
20 Rescue my soul from the sword,
my only life from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion's mouth,
and from the horns of the wild ox, answer me!
22 I will declare Your name to my community;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise You.
23 You who fear the Lord, praise Him;
all you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
and stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Israel.
24 For He has not despised nor abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted;
nor has He hid His face from him;
but when he cried to Him, He heard.
25 From You my praise will be in the great congregation;
I will pay my vows before those who fear Him.
26 The meek will eat and be satisfied;
those who seek Him will praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever.
27 All the ends of the world
will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
will worship before You.
28 For kingship belongs to the Lord,
and He rules among the nations.
29 All the prosperous ones of the earth will eat and worship;
all who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
even he who cannot keep his own soul alive.
30 Posterity will serve Him;
it will be told to generations about the Lord;
31 they will come and declare His righteousness
to a people yet to be born,
that He has acted.
Day 105, 15 Apr 2026
1) Psalms 56, 120, 140-141
PSALMS 56
For the Music Director.
To the melody of "Silent Dove at a Distance."
A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
1 Be gracious to me, O God, for man would crush me;
all day long he who battles oppresses me.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) All day long my enemies would crush me,
for there are many who arrogantly battle against me.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) In the day when I am afraid,
I will trust in You.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) In God whose word I praise,
in God I have trusted; I will not fear.
What can mere flesh do to me?
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Every day they twist my words;
all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) They stir up strife, they lurk,
they watch my steps,
when they wait for my life.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) Should there be deliverance
for them on account of wickedness?
In Your anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) You take account of my wandering;
put my tears in Your bottle;
are they not in Your book?
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) In the day I cry to You,
then my enemies will turn back;
this I know, that God is for me.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) In God whose word I praise,
in the Lord whose word I praise,
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) in God I trust, I will not fear;
what can a man do to me?
12 Your vows are on me, O God;
I will complete them with thank offerings to You;
13 for You have delivered my soul from death,
even my feet from stumbling,
to walk before God
in the light of the living.
Psalm 56
[1] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting
daily oppresseth me.
[2] Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight
against me, O thou most High.
[3] What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
[4] In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not
fear what flesh can do unto me.
[5] Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for
evil.
[6] They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my
steps, when they wait for my soul.
[7] Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O
God.
[8] Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they
not in thy book?
[9] When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know;
for God is for me.
[10] In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
[11] In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto
me.
[12] Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
[13] For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my
feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalms 120
A Song of Ascents.
1 In my distress I cried unto the Lord,
and He heard me.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips
and from a deceitful tongue.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) What shall be given to you,
or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Sharp arrows of the warrior,
with coals of the broom tree!
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Woe is me, that I have sojourned in Meshek,
or that I have dwelled among the tents of Kedar!
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) My soul has long lived
with those who hate peace.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) I am for peace,
but when I speak, they are for war!
Psalm 120
A Song of degrees.
[1] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
[2] Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
[3] What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false
tongue?
[4] Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
[5] Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, That I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
[6] My soul hath long dwelt With him that hateth peace.
[7] I am for peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
PSALMS 140
For the Music Director. A Psalm of David.
1 Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;
protect me from violent men,
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) who plan evil deeds in their heart
and continually gather together for conflicts.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) They have tongues as sharp as a serpent;
adders' poison is with their lips. Selah
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
preserve me from the violent men
who have planned to overthrow me.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) The proud have hid a snare for me,
and with cords they have spread a net;
they have set traps for me. Selah
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) I said to the Lord, "You are my God;
hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord."
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) O God my Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
do not allow his evil plot,
lest he be raised up. Selah
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) As for the head of those who encompassme,
let the mischief of their own lips overwhelm them;
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) let burning coals fall upon them;
let them be cast into the fire,
into deep pits that they do not rise up again.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5 ) Let not an evil speaker be established in the land;
let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow him!
12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted
and will give justice to the poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto Your name;
the upright shall dwell in Your presence.
Psalm 140
[1] Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
[2] Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered
together for war.
[3] They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is
under their lips. Selah.
[4] Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the
violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
[5] The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by
the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
[6] I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my
supplications, O LORD.
[7] O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head
in the day of battle.
[8] Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked
device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
[9] As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of
their own lips cover them.
[10] Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into
deep pits, that they rise not up again.
[11] Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt
the violent man to overthrow him.
[12] I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the
right of the poor.
[13] Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall
dwell in thy presence.
PSALMS 141
A Psalm of David.
1 Lord, I cry unto You; make haste to me;
give ear to my voice, when I cry unto You.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Let my prayer be set forth before You as incense,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil,
to practice wicked deeds
with men who do iniquity,
and do not let me eat of their delights.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Let the righteous man strike me;
it shall be a kindness.
Let him rebuke me;
it shall be oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
For my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9 ) When their judges are thrown to stony places,
then they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) As when one plows to break up the land,
so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) But my eyes are unto You, O God my Lord,
in You is my trust; do not leave my soul defenseless.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2 Keep me from the snares that they have laid for me,
and the traps of those who do iniquity.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by and escape.
Psalm 141
[1] LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when
I cry unto thee.
[2] Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of
my hands as the evening sacrifice.
[3] Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
[4] Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with
men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
[5] Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove
me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my
prayer also shall be in their calamities.
[6] When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my
words; for they are sweet.
[7] Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and
cleaveth wood upon the earth.
[8] But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave
not my soul destitute.
[9] Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the
workers of iniquity.
[10] Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
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1 Samuel 7
[3] And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return
unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and
Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve
him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
[4] Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and
served the LORD only.
[5] And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you
unto the LORD.
[6] And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out
before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned
against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
[7] And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered
together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And
when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
[8] And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the
LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines.
[9] And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering
wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the
LORD heard him.
[10] And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew
near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder
on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were
smitten before Israel.
[11] And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines,
and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.
[12] Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and
called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
[13] So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast
of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days
of Samuel.
[14] And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did
Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.
[15] And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
[16] And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and
Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
[17] And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he
judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
1 SAMUEL 8
Israel Demands a King
1 (Dt 16:18-19) And it came about when Samuel was old, that he installed
his sons as judges for Israel.
2 Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second
son was Abijah. They were judging in Beersheba.
3 (Dt 16:19; Ps 15:5) But his sons did not walk in his way, for they followed
after unlawful gain, and they took bribes, and they perverted justice.
4 (1Sa 7:17) And all the elders of Israel gathered together and they came
to Samuel at Ramah.
5 (Dt 17:14-15; 1Sa 8:19-20) They said to him, "You are old and your sons
do not walk in your ways. Now, install for us a king to govern us like
all the nations."
6 (1Sa 15:11; 12:17) But the thing was evil in the eyes of Samuel,
because they said, "Give us a king to govern us."
And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
7 (Ex 16:8; 1Sa 10:19) The Lord said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people
in relation to all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected,
but Me they have rejected from reigning over them.
8 Just as all the deeds which they have done to Me, from the day I brought
them up from Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken Me
and have served other gods, so they are doing also to you now.
9 (1Sa 8:11-18; 10:25) Now then, obey their voice. Only you will testify
against them and proclaim to them the judgment concerning the king
who will reign over them."
10 So Samuel said all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking
from him a king.
11 (1Sa 10:25; 14:52) And he said, "This will be the judgment concerning
the king who will reign over you: Your sons he will take in order to place
them for himself in his chariots and as his horsemen, and they will run
before his chariot,
12 and in order to assign for himself captains of thousands and captains
of fifties, and to plow his ground, and to gather in his harvest,
and to make his weapons of war and the equipment of his chariots.
13 And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
14 (1Ki 21:7; Eze 46:18) And your choicest fields, and vineyards,
and olive groves he will take and give them to his servants.
15 And of your seed fields and your vineyards he will take a tenth
of their harvest and will give it to his high officials and to his servants.
16 And your menservants and your maidservants, and the best of your
young men and asses he will take and make do his work.
17 Your flocks he will take a tenth of, but you will be his for slaves.
18 (Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4) And you will cry out in that day because of your king,
whom you have chosen for yourselves,
but the Lord will not answer you in that day."
19 (Jer 44:16_ But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel.
And they said, "No! But surely a king will be over us!
20 (1Sa 8:5) So that we also will be like all the nations!
And so that our king will govern us, and will go out before us,
and will fight our battles."
21 (Jdg 11:11) And after Samuel heard all the words of the people,
he spoke them in the hearing of the Lord.
22 (1Sa 8:7; Hos 13:11) And the Lord said to Samuel,
"Obey their voice, and make for them a king."
So Samuel said to Israel's fighting men,
"Go every man to his city."
1 Samuel 8
[1] And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges
over Israel.
[2] Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second,
Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
[3] And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and
took bribes, and perverted judgment.
[4] Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to
Samuel unto Ramah,
[5] And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy
ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
[6] But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge
us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
[7] And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in
all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have
rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
[8] According to all the works which they have done since the day that I
brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have
forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
[9] Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly
unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
[10] And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of
him a king.
[11] And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over
you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots,
and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
[12] And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over
fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and
to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
[13] And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks,
and to be bakers.
[14] And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,
even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
[15] And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and
give to his officers, and to his servants.
[16] And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your
goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
[17] He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
[18] And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall
have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
[19] Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they
said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
[20] That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge
us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
[21] And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in
the ears of the LORD.
[22] And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a
king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
2) Our Daily Bread for 8 April 2026 titled
God Our Provider
Matthew 17:24-27
Payment of the Temple Tax
24 (Ex 30:13; 38:26; Mk 9:33) When they came to Capernaum, those who collected
tax money came to Peter and said,
"Does your Teacher not pay the tax[Dt 25:5.]?"
25 Mt 22:17; 22:19He said, "Yes."
And when he came home, Jesus stopped him, saying, "What do you think, Simon?
From whom do the kings of the earth take custom or taxes?
From their own sons or from strangers?"
26 Peter said to Him, "From strangers."
Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.
27 (1Co 8:13)However, lest we offend them, go to the sea and cast a hook,
and take the first fish that comes up. And when you open its mouth,
you will find a coin. Take it and give it to them for you and Me."
[24] And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money
came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
[25] He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented
him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth
take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
[26] Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the
children free.
[27] Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and
cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast
opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto
them for me and thee.
In 2024, teenager Keegan happily reeled in a two-foot barramundi. But his
happiness became elation when his little sister pointed out a tag on the fish.
His catch was worth one million dollars as part of an Australian fishing
competition. The annual event had been held since 2015;
Keegan was the first to win the coveted top cash prize.
However slim the odds of catching that fish, the odds were far lower that a
fish caught at random would have a coin in its mouth. But in Matthew's gospel,
Jesus instructed His disciple Peter to "go to the lake and . . . take the
first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin"
(17:27).
The context of this unlikely catch was a question of whether Jesus paid the
temple tax (v. 24). The irony of insisting that Jesus - God's Son - pay a tax
to support God's temple, wasn't lost on Him. He pointed out that the king's
children don't pay taxes to the king (vv. 25-26).
But there was no need to "cause offense" and distract others from His teaching
by being perceived as a tax evader (v. 27). So Jesus instructed Peter to catch
that fish, which had the exact amount to pay both His and Peter's tax! Perhaps
in part it was a reminder to Peter - and to us - that God is a provider who is
always with His children as they follow Him.
Reflect & Pray
When have you experienced unlikely events in which you saw God's hand at work?
How does trusting Him free you to live in obedience?
Loving God, please help me rest in Your provision as I follow You.
1 SAMUEL 6
The Ark Returned to Israel
1 Now the ark of the Lord had been in the country
of the Philistines seven months.
2 (Ge 41:8; Ex 7:11) The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,
saying, "What shall we do with the ark of the Lord?
Tell us how we should send it to its place."
3 (Ex 23:15; Dt 16:16) They said, "If you send away the ark of the God
of Israel, do not send it empty. But return to Him a guilt offering.
Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand
is not removed from you."
4 (Jos 13:3; Jdg 3:3) Then said they, "What will be the guilt offering
which we will return to Him?"
They answered, "Five golden tumors and five golden mice according
to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For one plague was on
you all, and on your lords.
5 (Jos 7:19; 1Sa 5:6-7; 5:11) Therefore you will make images of your tumors
and images of your mice that ravage the land. And you will give glory
to the God of Israel. Perhaps He will lighten His hand from off you,
even from off your gods and from off your land.
6 (Ex 7:13; 8:15) Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians
and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He dealt severely with them,
did they not let the people go, and they departed?
7 (Nu 19:2; 2Sa 6:3) "Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milk
cows on which there has never been a yoke. Then tie the cows to the cart
and bring their calves home, away from them.
8 Then take the ark of the Lord and set it on the cart. And put the images
of gold, which you return to Him for a guilt offering, in a box by the side.
And send it away, that it may go.
9 (Jos 15:10; 21:16) See, if it goes up by the way of His own territory
to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then
we will know that it is not His hand that struck us; it was by chance
that it happened to us."
10 The men did so. And they took two milk cows, tied them to the cart,
and shut up their calves at home.
11 And they set the ark of the Lord on the cart, as well as the box
with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
12 Then the cows took the straight way to the way of Beth Shemesh,
and went along the highway, lowing as they went. They did not turn aside
to the right hand or to the left with the lords of the Philistines walking
after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
13 Now Beth Shemesh was reaping their wheat harvest in the valley.
And they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and they rejoiced to see it.
14 (2Sa 24:22) The cart came into the field of Joshua, the Beth Shemite,
and stood there where there was a great stone. And they split the wood
of the cart, and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the box that was with it,
where the articles of gold were, and put them on the great stone.
And the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices
the same day to the Lord.
16 (Jos 13:3; Jdg 3:3) When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it,
they returned to Ekron the same day.
17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for
a guilt offering to the Lord: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one,
for Gath one, for Ekron one.
18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities
of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities,
and of country villages. And the great stone, where they set the ark
of the Lord, is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua,
the Beth Shemite.
19 (Ex 19:21; Nu 4:15) Then He struck the men of Beth ShemÂÂesh,
because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck 50070 men.
And the people lamented, because the Lord had struck the people
with a great slaughter.
20 (2Sa 6:9; Mal 3:2) The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand
before the Lord, this holy God? And to whom will He go up from us?"
21 (1Ch 13:5-6; Jos 9:17) And they sent messengers to the inhabitants
of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark
of the Lord. Come down, and take it up to you."
1 Samuel 6
[1] And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven
months.
[2] And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying,
What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it
to his place.
[3] And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not
empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be
healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
[4] Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall
return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice,
according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was
on you all, and on your lords.
[5] Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice
that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel:
peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods,
and from off your land.
[6] Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharoah
hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they
not let the people go, and they departed?
[7] Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there
hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home
from them:
[8] And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the
jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by
the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
[9] And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh,
then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that is
not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
[10] And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart,
and shut up their calves at home:
[11] And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with
the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
[12] And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went
along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right
hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto
the border of Beth-shemesh.
[13] And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the
valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see
it.
[14] And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood
there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart,
and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
[15] And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was
with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone:
and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
[16] And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned
to Ekron the same day.
[17] And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a
trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon
one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
[18] And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the
Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of
country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down
the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of
Joshua, the Beth-shemite.
[19] And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the
ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore
and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of
the people with a great slaughter.
[20] And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy
LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
[21] And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying,
The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and
fetch it up to you.
1 SAMUEL 7
1 So the men of Kiriath Jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord.
And they brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill,
and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.
2 And from the day the ark resided in Kiriath Jearim,
the days increased to twenty years.
1 Samuel 7
[1] And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD,
and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified
Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
[2] And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the
time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented
after the LORD.
Samuel Judges Israel
And all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
3 (Jos 24:14; Ge 35:2; Dt 6:13) Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel,
saying, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart,
then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths from your midst.
And make firm your hearts unto the Lord, and serve Him only.
Then He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
4 So the children of Israel put away the Baals and Ashtoreths
and served the Lord only.
5 (Jdg 20:1) Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah,
and I will pray to the Lord for you."
6 (Jdg 10:10; Ps 106:6) They gathered together to Mizpah.
And they drew water and poured it out before the Lord.
And they fasted on that day, and said there,
"We have sinned against the Lord."
So Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
7 (1Sa 17:11; 13:6) When the Philistines heard that the children
of Israel were gathered together to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines
went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it,
they were afraid of the Philistines.
8 (Isa 37:4; 1Sa 12:19-24) The children of Israel said to Samuel,
"Do not stop crying unto the Lord our God for us, that He might save us
out of the hand of the Philistines."
9 (Ps 99:6; Jer 15:1) Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a burnt
offering unto the Lord. And Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel and the Lord
heard him.
10 (1Sa 2:10; Jos 10:10) As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering,
the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel, but the Lord thundered
with a great thunder on that day against the Philistines, and confused them.
So they were beaten before Israel.
11 Israel's fighting men went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines,
and struck them, as far as below Beth Kar.
12 (Ge 35:14; Jos 4:9) Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah
and Shen. And he called its name EbenezerLit.
Stone of help. saying, "Th
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Day 96, 6 April 2026
1) Ruth
1 Chronicles 2:9-55
1 Chronicles 4:1-23
1 Samuel 1:1-8
RUTH 1
Naomi Loses
1 (Ge 12:10; 26:1) In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine
in the land. And a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the land
of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
2 (Ge 35:19) The name of the man was Elimelek, the name of his wife
was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion.
They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. And they went to Moab
and lived there.
3 Now Elimelek, the husband of Naomi, died,
so she was left alone with her two sons.
4 (Mt 1:5) They took Moabite wives for themselves; the name of one
was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
5 Then Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left
without her two sons and her husband.
6 (Ex 4:31; Ps 132:15) So she got up with her daughters-in-law to return
from the land of Moab, for in the land of Moab, she had heard
that the Lord had visited His people by giving them food.
7 She set out from the place where she had been,
with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on their way
to return to the land of Judah.
8 (Ru 1:5; 2:20) Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law,
"Go, return each to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly
with you, as you have dealt with your deceased husbands and with me.
9 (Ru 3:1) May the Lord grant that you each find rest
in the house of another husband."
Then she kissed them, and they raised their voices and wept aloud.
10 They said to her, "We will return with you to your people."
11 (Ge 38:11; Dt 25:5) But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters.
Why would you go with me? Are there sons in my womb,
who could become your husbands?
12 Turn back, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband.
Even if I thought that there was still hope for me, that I could have
a husband tonight and give birth to sons,
13 (Jdg 2:15; Job 19:21) would you wait until they were grown?
Would you refrain from getting married? No, my daughters.
It is much more bitter for me than for you, for the hand of the Lord
has turned against me."
14 (Pr 17:17; 18:24) Then they raised their voices and wept aloud once more.
Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
15 (Jdg 11:24; Jos 24:15) Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law has returned
to her people and her gods. Return with her!"
16 (Ru 2:11-12) But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back
from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you stay,
I will stay. Your people shall be my people and your God my God.
17 (1Sa 3:17; 25:22) Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried.
May the Lord do thus to me, and worse,
if anything but death separates you and me!"
18 (Ac 21:14) When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her,
she said no more to her.
19 (Mt 21:10) So they both went on until they came to Bethlehem.
When they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them,
and the women asked, "Is this Naomi?"
20 (Job 6:4) But she said to them, "Do not call me Naomi. Call me Mara,
because the Almighty has brought great bitterness to me.
21 (Job 1:21) I was full when I left, but the Lord has caused me to return
empty. Why should you call me Naomi when the Lord has opposed me?
The Almighty has brought misfortune upon me!"
22 (Ru 2:23; 2Sa 21:9) So Naomi returned from the land of Moab
with Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law.
They came to Bethlehem at the start of the spring barley harvest.
Ruth 1
[1] Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a
famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in
the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
[2] And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi,
and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of
Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
[3] And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
[4] And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was
Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten
years.
[5] And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of
her two sons and her husband.
[6] Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the
country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD
had visited his people in giving them bread.
[7] Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two
daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land
of Judah.
[8] And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her
mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the
dead, and with me.
[9] The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of
her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
[10] And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy
people.
[11] And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are
there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
[12] Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an
husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to
night, and should also bear sons;
[13] Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them
from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your
sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
[14] And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her
mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
[15] And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people,
and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
[16] And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou
lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
[17] Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do
so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
[18] When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her.
[19] So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass,
when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them,
and they said, Is this Naomi?
[20] And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the
Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
[21] I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why
then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the
Almighty hath afflicted me?
[22] So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with
her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem
in the beginning of barley harvest.
RUTH 2
Ruth Meets Boaz
1 (Ru 3:2; 3:12) Now Naomi had a relative of her husband,
a man of prominence and means from the clan of Elimelek. His name was Boaz.
2 (Lev 19:9; 23:22) Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Please let me go into
the field and glean among the heads of grain behind anyone
in whose eyes I may find favor."
Naomi said to her, "Go, my daughter.."
3 So she went to glean in the field behind the harvesters. She happened
to come to a part of the field belonging to Boaz,
who was from the clan of Elimelek.
4 (Ps 129:7-8; Lk 1:28) Just then Boaz came from Bethlehem
and said to the harvesters, "May the Lord be with you!"
And they said to him, "May the Lord bless you."
5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of his harvesters,
"Whose young woman is this?"
6 (Ru 1:22) So the servant who was in charge of his harvesters answered,
"She is the young Moabitess woman who came back with Naomi
from the land of Moab.
7 She said, 'Please let me glean and gather grain among the bundles
behind the harvesters.' So she came and has remained from morning
until now, though she rested a little while in the house."
8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Do not go to glean
in another field and leave this one. Stay close to my young women.
9 Keep your eyes on the field in which they reap and follow after them.
I have commanded the men not to touch you. When you are thirsty,
go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn."
10 (1Sa 25:23) So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground,
and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes,
that you should acknowledge me, a foreigner?"
11 Boaz answered and said to her, "I have been told all that you have done
for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband,
and how you left your father and mother and your homeland
and came to a people you did not know before.
12 (1Sa 24:19; Ru 1:16) May the Lord reward your deeds.
May you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel,
under whose wings you have come to take refuge."
13 (Ge 33:15; 1Sa 1:18) Then she said, "May I find favor in your eyes,
my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken kindly
to your servant, though I am not like one of your servant girls."
14 (Ru 2:18) At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come over here,
and eat some bread, and dip your piece in the vinegar."
So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he passed her some roasted grain.
She ate and was full and had some left over.
15 When she got up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men,
"Let her glean even among the bundles, and do not harm her.
16 Also pull out some grain for her from the bundles and leave it
so that she may glean it, and do not rebuke her."
17 So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out
what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah
[Likely about 30 pounds, or 13 kilograms.]
of barley.
18 (Ru 2:14) She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law
saw what she had gleaned. She drew it out and gave her what she had left,
after she had been satisfied.
19 (Ru 2:10; Ps 41:1) Her mother-in-law said to her,
"Where did you glean today, and where did you work?
May he who took notice of you be blessed."
So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked,
and said, "The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz."
20 (2Sa 2:5; Ru 3:9-10) Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law,
"May he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn His kindness
to the living and to the dead." Naomi said to her, "This man is
a close relative of ours, one of our redeeming relatives."
21 Then Ruth the Moabitess said, "He even told me, 'You should stay close
to my servants until they have finished all my harvest.' "
22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law,
"It is better, my daughter, that you go with his young women,
for in someone else's field you might be harmed."
23 So she stayed close to the young women of Boaz to glean until
the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest.
And she lived with her mother-in-law.
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Judges 20
[1] Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was
gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of
Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
[2] And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel,
presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred
thousand footmen that drew sword.
[3] (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were
gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this
wickedness?
[4] And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and
said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to
lodge.
[5] And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about
upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they
forced, that she is dead.
[6] And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout
all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed
lewdness and folly in Israel.
[7] Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and
counsel.
[8] And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to
his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
[9] But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go
up by lot against it;
[10] And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of
Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to
fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of
Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
[11] So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together
as one man.
[12] And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin,
saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
[13] Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in
Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But
the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren
the children of Israel:
[14] But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the
cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
[15] And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the
cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants
of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
[16] Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded;
every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
[17] And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred
thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
[18] And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and
asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle
against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up
first.
[19] And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against
Gibeah.
[20] And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men
of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
[21] And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed
down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
[22] And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their
battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the
first day.
[23] (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until
even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle
against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up
against him.)
[24] And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin
the second day.
[25] And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and
destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen
thousand men; all these drew the sword.
[26] Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came
unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted
that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before
the LORD.
[27] And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the
covenant of God was there in those days,
[28] And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in
those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children
of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to
morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
[29] And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
[30] And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on
the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other
times.
[31] And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were
drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill,
as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of
God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
[32] And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as
at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them
from the city unto the highways.
[33] And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put
themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came
forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
[34] And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all
Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
[35] And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel
destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred
men: all these drew the sword.
[36] So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of
Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in
wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
[37] And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in
wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the
sword.
[38] Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers
in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the
city.
[39] And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to
smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said,
Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
[40] But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of
smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city
ascended up to heaven.
[41] And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were
amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
[42] Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way
of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of
the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
[43] Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and
trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
[44] And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of
valour.
[45] And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon:
and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard
after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
[46] So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five
thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
[47] But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock
Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
[48] And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and
smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the
beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that
they came to.
JUDGES 21
Wives for the Benjamites
1 (Jdg 20:1; 21:18) In Mizpah the men of Israel had taken an oath:
"No one among us will give his daughter to a Benjamite as his wife."
2 (Jdg 20:26; 20:18) So the people came to Bethel and sat there before
God until evening. They raised their voices and wept, sobbing loudly.
3 They said, "Why, Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel,
that today a tribe is missing from Israel?"
4 (2Sa 24:25) In the morning the people got up early and built an altar
there. They offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 (Jdg 5:23) The children of Israel said, "Who from all the tribes of Israel
did not go up with the assembly to the Lord?" For they vowed a solemn
oath regarding whoever did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah stating,
"He must be killed."
6 (Jdg 21:15) The children of Israel lamented for Benjamin their brother,
and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel today.
7 (Jdg 21:1) What can we do to find wives for those who are left?
For we swore by the Lord not to give them our daughters as wives."
8 (1Sa 31:11-13) So they said, "Is there anyone from among the tribes
of Israel who did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah?" Then they learned
that no one from the camp of Jabesh Gilead had come to the assembly.
9 When the people were counted, indeed, there was not a man there
from among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead.
10 (Jdg 5:23; 21:5) So the assembly sent twelve thousand valorous men there
and commanded them, "Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead
with the edge of the sword, including women and children.
11 (Nu 31:17-18) This is what you will do: You will kill every man
and every woman who has slept with a man."
12 (Jos 18:1) So among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead they found
400 virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them
to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
13 (Dt 20:10; Jdg 20:47) Then the whole assembly sent someone to speak
to the Benjamites who were at Rimmon Rock, and they declared peace.
14 So the Benjamites returned at that time, and they gave to them the women
who were still alive from among the women of Jabesh Gilead.
Yet they did not find enough for them.
15 (Jdg 21:6) The people felt sorry for Benjamin, for the Lord had made a gap
among the tribes of Israel.
16 The elders of the assembly said, "What can we do to find wives for those
who are left? The Benjamite women were destroyed."
17 They said, "There must be an inheritance for the remnant of Benjamin,
so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.
18 (Jdg 21:1) Yet we cannot give them our daughters for wives,
for the children of Israel swore, 'Cursed be anyone who gives
a wife to Benjamin.' "
19 They said, "Wait! There is an annual festival of the Lord in Shiloh,
which is north of Bethel, east of the main road that goes up from Bethel
to Shechem, and south of Lebonah."
20 So they commanded the Benjamites, "Go and hide in the vineyards.
21 (Ex 15:20; Jdg 11:34) Watch, and then when the daughters of Shiloh
come out to dance in the dances, come out from the vineyards
and have every man grab a wife for himself from among
the daughters of Shiloh. Then go to the land of Benjamin.
22 (Jdg 21:1; 21:18) When their fathers or their brothers come to us
to complain, we will say to them, 'Be favorable to them for our sakes,
because we did not take for each man a wife in the battle;
for you have not given women to them at the time,
thereby making yourselves guilty.' "
23 (Jdg 20:48) So the Benjamites did this. They carried away wives
for each man from among the dancers that they caught. Then they
returned to their inheritance, rebuilt the cities, and lived in them.
24 At that time, the children of Israel departed from there each man
to his tribe and to his family. They went out from
there to their own inheritance.
25 (Jdg 17:6; 18:1) In those days there was no king in Israel;
everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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Judges 21
[1] Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any
of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
[2] And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even
before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
[3] And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that
there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
[4] And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built
there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
[5] And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of
Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had
made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh,
saying, He shall surely be put to death.
[6] And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and
said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
[7] How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by
the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
[8] And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not
up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from
Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
[9] For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the
inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
[10] And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the
valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of
Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
[11] And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every
male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
[12] And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred
young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they
brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
[13] And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of
Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
[14] And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which
they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed
them not.
[15] And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had
made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
[16] Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for
them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
[17] And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of
Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
[18] Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children
of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
[19] Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly
in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the
highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
[20] Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie
in wait in the vineyards;
[21] And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in
dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife
of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
[22] And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to
complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes:
because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give
unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
[23] And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to
their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and
returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
[24] And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to
his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his
inheritance.
[25] In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was
right in his own eyes.
2) Our Daily Bread for 5 April 2026 entitled
Resurrection Power
by Patricia Rayborn
Mark 16:1-8
The Resurrection of Jesus
Mt 28:1-8; Lk 24:1-12; Jn 20:1-10
1 (Mk 15:40; 15:47) When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices,
so that they might go and anoint Him.
2 (Mt 28:1; Lk 24:1) Very early in the morning, on the first day
of the week, they came to the tomb at the rising of the sun.
3 They said among themselves, "Who will roll the stone away
from the door of the tomb for us?"
4 (Lk 24:2; Jn 20:1) But when they looked, they saw that the stone
had been rolled away. For it was very large.
5 (Jn 20:11-12; Mt 28:3) And entering the tomb, they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white robe.
And they were frightened.
6 He said to them, "Do not be frightened. You are looking for Jesus
of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen. He is not here.
See the place where they laid Him.
7 (Mk 14:28; Mt 26:32) But go your way, tell His disciples and Peter
that He is going before you to Galilee. There you will see Him,
as He told you."
8 They went out quickly and fled from the tomb, for they trembled
and were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
[1] And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of
James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint
him.
[2] And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto
the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
[3] And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from
the door of the sepulchre?
[4] And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it
was very great.
[5] And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the
right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
[6] And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth,
which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where
they laid him.
[7] But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you
into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
[8] And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they
trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they
were afraid.
At one hundred dollars, Loretta's utility bill was much higher than usual.
"But the Lord will provide," she told her son. That same day she received a
text from her youngest brother: "Loretta, you're always encouraging me, and I
want to thank you. Look in your mail for something from me." That afternoon
in her mail, she found a gift card from her brother for one hundred dollars.
A miracle? Not to some, perhaps. To Loretta, however, the "coincidence' felt
miraculous. She always expects the living God to provide for her.
Her outlook highlights a lesson in the resurrection story of Jesus. After the
Sabbath, three women bought spices to anoint Jesus' body in the tomb. But
walking there after sunrise, the women expected not a miracle but a problem:
"Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?" (Mark 16:1-3).
Embedded in their question was a curious doubt, especially from these
women - including Mary Magdalene - who had traveled with Jesus and witnessed
His power. All of them, however, were looking that morning for a dead Jesus.
Instead, "He has risen! He is not here," they were told (v. 6). That
declaration explains what we can expect from the living Jesus: His miraculous
resurrection power. He is alive. When we face "heavy stones" that need moving,
He will be with us and help us. He's not in a tomb. He is risen, indeed!
Reflect & Pray
How have you witnessed God working in an amazing way?
What does it mean to you to live out Jesus' resurrection power?
You're alive, Jesus, and You possess the resurrection power I need!
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 5 Rejoice in Grace - Day 1 Call to the Lord - 2 Samuel 22:3-4
3 (Ge 15:1; Ps 9:9) the God of my strength, in whom I will trust;
my shield and the horn of my salvation,
my fortress and my sanctuary;
my Savior, You save me from violence.
4 (Ps 48:1; 96:4) I call upon the Lord, who is praiseworthy,
and I am saved from my enemies.
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust:
He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge,
My saviour; thou savest me from violence.
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
In the old Days of Television Western, we could always tell who the enemy was.
The bad guys wore black hats; the evil villain had a scar across
his cheek or a patch over one eye. But real life is
not quite so simple . Enemies come in many forms, and often are not easy to
recognise. Sin is an enemy; even those we love can seek
to undermine our faith;
modern materialism and distorted values lead us away from biblical principles.
These enemies may not seek our death in a physical sense,
but their influence results in spiritual death or, at the very least,
immaturity.
Yet God promises to rescue us from our enemies. David describes the Lord as a
"rock", a "shield", a "stronghold", and a "refuge". God provides a stable
foundation for our faith; he products us from the attacks of the enemy;
he offers a place of rest in battle.
Our battles are usually not physical ones, but rather spiritual
and emotional wars.
We struggle with difficult relationships, the burdens of the past,
the subtle accusations of the devil.
But these enemies can be overcome. David says,
"I call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise" .
When we turn to the Lord, trust his Word, acknowledge his
worthiness, we put our own problems and difficulties in perspective.
We see that God is able to rescue us, and has promised to do so.
And as we respond to his grace by focusing
on him, we abandon trust in ourselves and allow him to do what he promised.
Application
a) What kinds of enemies do I face?
b) How have I tried to deal with those enemies by myself?
c) How can today's verses help me turn to the sources of my rescue?
Judges 19
[1] And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel,
that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who
took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
[2] And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him
unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
[3] And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her,
and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses:
and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the
damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
[4] And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode
with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.
[5] And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the
morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his
son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go
your way.
[6] And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the
damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry
all night, and let thine heart be merry.
[7] And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him:
therefore he lodged there again.
[8] And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the
damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried
until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
[9] And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his
servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now
the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day
groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow
get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
[10] But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed,
and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two
asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
[11] And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant
said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city
of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
[12] And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the
city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over
to Gibeah.
[13] And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of
these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
[14] And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them
when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
[15] And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and
when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no
man that took them into his house to lodging.
[16] And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at
even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the
men of the place were Benjamites.
[17] And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the
street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence
comest thou?
[18] And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the
side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I
am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me
to house.
[19] Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread
and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is
with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
[20] And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants
lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
[21] So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses:
and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
[22] Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the
city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the
door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth
the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
[23] And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, Nay, my
brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come
into mine house, do not this folly.
[24] Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will
bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto
you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
[25] But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine,
and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the
night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
[26] Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the
door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
[27] And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house,
and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen
down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
[28] And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then
the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his
place.
[29] And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on
his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces,
and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
[30] And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done
nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of
Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
JUDGES 20
The Children of Israel Punish the Benjamites
1 (Jdg 11:11; 21:5) All the children of Israel from Dan to Beersheba,
and also from the land of Gilead, went out and gathered together in
an assembly as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.
2 (Jdg 8:10; 20:15) The leaders of all the people from all the tribes
of Israel presented themselves in an assembly of the people of God,
who numbered four hundred thousand infantrymen bearing swords.
3(The Benjamites heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.)
The children of Israel said, "Tell how this evil happened!"
4 So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered,
"My concubine and I came to Gibeah, in Benjamin, to spend the night.
5 (Jdg 19:22; 19:25-26) Then the leaders of Gibeah rose up against me.
At night they surrounded the house where I was staying.
They wanted to kill me; instead they ravished my concubine so that she died.
6 (Jdg 19:29; Jos 7:15) I seized my concubine, cut her into pieces,
and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel,
because they committed an infamous and disgraceful act in Israel.
7 (Jdg 19:30) Now, all of you are children of Israel.
Give your advice and counsel here."
8 All the people arose as one man and said, "Not a man among us will go
to his tent, and no one will turn aside to his house.
9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah. We will go against it by lot.
10 We will take ten men out of every hundred, from every tribe of Israel,
a hundred from every thousand, and a thousand from every ten thousand,
to bring provisions for the troops. Then when they come to Gibeah
in Benjamin, they may repay them for all the evil
that they committed in Israel."
11 So all the men of Israel gathered at the city, united like one man.
12 (Dt 13:14) The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the whole tribe
of Benjamin, saying, "What is this evil that has been committed among you?
13 (Dt 13:13; 17:12) Now hand over the wicked men in Gibeah,
so that we can kill them and purge the evil from Israel."
Yet the Benjamites were not willing to listen
to their fellow children of Israel.
14 The Benjamites gathered from their cities at Gibeah in order to go
out and wage war against the children of Israel.
15 (Nu 26:41) That day, the Benjamites mustered twenty-six thousand armed men
from the cities and seven hundred specially chosen men from Gibeah.
16 (Jdg 3:15; 1Ch 12:2) Out of all these people there were seven hundred
specially chosen men who were left-handed, all of whom could sling
a stone at a hair and not miss.
17 The men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, gathered four hundred thousand
armed men who drew the sword; all of them were men of war.
18 (Nu 27:21; Jdg 20:23) The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel,
and asked God, "Who should go up first to wage war against the Benjamites?"
The Lord said, "Judah first."
19T he children of Israel got up in the morning and camped against Gibeah.
20 The men of Israel went out for battle with Benjamin,
and the men of Israel lined up for battle at Gibeah.
21 (Jdg 20:25) Then the Benjamites came out from Gibeah
and struck twenty-two thousand Israelite men down to the ground.
22 The people, the men of Israel, rallied and lined up for battle again
in the place where they had lined up on the first day.
23 (Jdg 20:26-27) Then the children of Israel went up
and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord,
"Should we advance and fight our brother-tribesmen the Benjamites again?"
The Lord said, "Advance against them."
24 So the children of Israel advanced against the Benjamites for the second day.
25 (Jdg 20:21) And on the second day, the Benjamites went out from Gibeah
to meet them and again struck eighteen thousand men down to the ground,
every one of them armed.
26 (Jdg 20:23; 20:18) Then all the children of Israel, all the people, went up
to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord.
They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before the Lord.
27 (Jos 18:1; Jdg 20:18) The children of Israel asked the Lord
(because the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
28 (Dt 18:5; Jos 24:33) and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,
stood before it then), "Should we go out again to wage war with our
brother-tribesmen the Benjamites, or should we not?"
The Lord said, "Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands."
29 (Jos 8:4) So Israel set an ambushing force around Gibeah.
30 The children of Israel went up against the Benjamites on the third day
and lined up at Gibeah as before.
31 The Benjamites went out to engage the people and were drawn away
from the city. They began to strike the people down as before. On the
main roads that go up to Bethel and Gibeah and in the field,
they struck down about thirty children of Israel.
32 The Benjamites said, "They are struck down before us like
at the beginning." But the children of Israel said, "Let us retreat
and draw them away from the city toward the main roads."
33 So all the men of Israel rose up out of their place
and assumed their battle positions at Baal Tamar.
Then the men of Israel in ambush charged out of their places,
out of the meadows of Gibeah.
34 (Jos 8:14; Job 21:13) Ten thousand specially chosen men
from all of Israel came against Gibeah. The battle was fierce,
and the Benjamites did not know that disaster was upon them.
35 The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and that day the children
of Israel struck down 25100 Benjamites, every one of them armed.
36 The Benjamites saw that they were defeated.
Now the men of Israel had withdrawn from Benjamin, because they relied
on the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.
37 (Jos 8:19) So the ambushing force rushed on and attacked Gibeah.
They struck down the whole city with the edge of the sword.
38 The men of Israel had made an agreement with the ambushing force
that when they sent up a large amount of smoke from the city,
39 (Jdg 20:32) the children of Israel would turn around in battle.
When the Benjamites had begun to strike the children of Israel down,
about thirty men, they said, "Surely they are struck down before us like
at the beginning."
40 (Jos 8:20) Yet when the smoke began to rise up from the city in a column,
the Benjamites looked behind them and suddenly noticed the whole city
going up in smoke to the sky.
41 Then the men of Israel turned around, and the men of Benjamin
were horrified because they saw that disaster had come on them.
42 So they fled from the men of Israel toward the direction
of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. Whoever came out
of the cities destroyed them in their midst.
43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them without rest,
and trampled them down near Gibeah toward the east.
44 Eighteen thousand men from Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
45 (Jos 15:32; Jdg 21:13) The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness
to Rimmon Rock, and they cut down five thousand men on the main roads.
They pursued them relentlessly until they reached Gidom
and killed two thousand of them.
46 So the Benjamites who fell that day numbered 25000, every one
of them armed, valorous men.
47 However, six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness,
to Rimmon Rock. They dwelled at Rimmon Rock for four months.
48 Yet the men of Israel turned back against the Benjamites
and struck them with the edge of the sword-city inhabitants, animals,
and everything that could be found. Indeed, they set on fire every city
that could be found.