M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
25 Then Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him and buried him in his own house at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
2 Now, there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. And the man was exceedingly mighty and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3 Also, the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife: Abigail. And she was a woman of singular wisdom and beautiful. But the man was harsh and evil in his endeavors. He was of the family of Caleb.
4 And in the wilderness, David heard that Nabal sheared his sheep.
5 Therefore, David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel. And go to Nabal and ask him, in my name, how he is doing.
6 “And you shall say this as a greeting, “Peace to you and your house and all that you have.
7 “Behold, I have heard that you have shearers. Now, your shepherds were with us, and we did not hurt them, nor did they lose anything all the time they were in Carmel.
8 “Ask your servants and they will tell you. Therefore, let these young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to hand to your servants, and to your son David.”
9 And when David’s young men came, they told Nabal all those words in the name of David, and then held their peace.
10 Then, Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away, each man from his master.
11 “Shall I then take my bread and my water and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men of whose origin I do not know?”
12 So David’s servants turned their way and went back and came and told him all those things.
13 And David said to his men, “Every man gird his sword!” And every man girded his sword. David also girded his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, and two hundred stayed by the carriage.
14 Now, one of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master and he scorned them.
15 “Nevertheless, the men were very good to us and we had no displeasure. Nor did we lose anything while we were with them, when we were in the fields.
16 “They were as a wall to us, both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping sheep.
17 “Now, therefore, take heed and consider what you shall do. For evil will surely come upon our master, and upon all his family. For he is so wicked that a man cannot speak to him.”
18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred cakes and two bottles of wine and five sheep, already dressed, and five measures of parched corn and a hundred clusters of raisins (and two hundred of figs) and laid them on donkeys.
19 Then she said to her servants, “Go before me! Behold, I will follow you.” Yet she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20 And as she rode on her donkey, she came down by a secret place of the mountain. And behold, David and his men came down opposite her. And she met them.
21 And David said, “Indeed, for nothing have I kept all that this fellow had in the wilderness, so that nothing was lost of all that pertained to him. For he has requited me evil for good.
22 “This and more also may God do to the enemies of David if I leave any male that he has before the dawning of the day.”
23 And when Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted her donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground
24 and fell at his feet, and said, “Oh, my lord, I have committed the iniquity! And please let your handmaid speak to you, and hear the words of your handmaid!
25 “Please do not let my lord pay any attention to this wicked man, Nabal! For as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.
26 “Now, therefore, my lord. As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives (the LORD Who has restrained you from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself your own hand), so now your enemies shall be as Nabal, and those who intend to do my lord evil.
27 “And now, this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
28 “Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For the LORD will make my lord a sure House, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD. And no misery has been found in you in all your life.
29 “Yet a man has risen up to persecute you, and to seek your soul. But the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. And the soul of your enemies God shall cast out, as out of the middle of a sling.
30 “And when the LORD shall have done to my lord all the good that He has promised you, and shall have made you ruler over Israel,
31 “then it shall be no grief to you, nor offense of mind to my lord, that he has either shed blood without cause or that my lord has not avenged himself. And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, remember your handmaid.”
32 Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, Who sent you this day to meet me.
33 “And blessed be your counsel, and blessed be you, who hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and that I have not avenged myself by my own hand.
34 “For indeed, as the LORD God of Israel lives (Who has restrained me from hurting you), except that you had hurried and met me, surely no male would have been left to Nabal by the dawning of the day.”
35 Then David received from her hand that which she had brought him, and said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have heard your voice and have granted your petition.”
36 So Abigail came to Nabal. And behold, he made a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore, she told him nothing, neither less nor more, until the morning arose.
37 Then, in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him those words. And his heart died within him. And he was like a stone.
38 And about ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal, so that he died.
39 Now when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD, Who has judged the cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal and has kept His servant from evil! For the LORD has repaid the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head!” Also, David sent to commune with Abigail, to take her as his wife.
40 And when the servants of David had come to Abigail, to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David sent us to you, to take you as his wife.”
41 And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
42 And Abigail hurried and arose and rode upon a donkey. And her five maids followed her. And she went after the messengers of David and was his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. And they were both his wives.
44 Now Saul had given Michal, his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti, the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
6 Do any of you dare, when having business against another, to be judged by the unjust, and not by the Saints?
2 Do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world? If the world then shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more so things that pertain to this life?
4 If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set those up who are least-esteemed in the Church.
5 I speak this to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one, who can judge between his brothers?
6 But a brother goes to law with a brother, and then before unbelievers!
7 Therefore, it is now a total defeat for you, that you go to law with one another. Rather, why do you not suffer wrong? Rather, why do you not sustain harm?
8 But, you yourselves do wrong, and do harm, and that to your brothers!
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers shall inherit the Kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you. But you are washed. But you are sanctified. But you are justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful to me. But all things are not profitable. I may do all things, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
13 Foods for the belly, and the belly for the foods. But God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 And God has also raised up the Lord, and shall raise us up, by His power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that he who couples himself with a prostitute is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.
17 But the one who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body. But the one who commits fornication, sins against his own body.
19 Do you not know that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, Who is in you; Whom you have from God? And you are not your own.
20 For you are bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit. For they are God’s.
4 “You, also, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you and engrave the city of Jerusalem on it.
2 “And lay siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and pour a mound against it. Also, set the camp against it and lay engines of war against it, all around.
3 “Moreover, take an iron plate and set it as a wall of iron between yourself and the city, and direct your face toward it, and it shall be besieged. And you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the House of Israel.
4 “Also, sleep on your left side and lay the iniquity of the House of Israel upon it. According to the number of days that you shall sleep on it shall you bear their iniquity.
5 “For I have laid the years of their iniquity upon you, according to the number of days: three hundred ninety days. So shall you bear the iniquity of the House of Israel.
6 “And when you have completed them, sleep again on your right side. And you shall bear the iniquity of the House of Judah for forty days —a day for a year. I have appointed to you a day for a year.
7 “Therefore, you shall direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem. And your arm shall be uncovered. And you shall prophesy against it.
8 “And behold, I will lay ropes upon you. And you shall not turn from one side to another until you have ended the days of your siege.
9 “You shall also take wheat for yourself, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make yourself bread from it. According to the number of the days that you shall sleep on your side —three hundred ninety days —you shall eat it.
10 “And the food which you shall eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight. From time to time, you shall eat it.
11 “You shall also drink water, the sixth part of a hin by measure. From time to time, you shall drink.
12 “And you shall eat it like barley cakes. And you shall bake it in the dung that comes out of man, in their sight.”
13 And the LORD said: “So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, wherever I cast them.”
14 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth, even until this hour, I have not eaten of a thing dead or torn in pieces, nor came there any unclean flesh in my mouth.”
15 Then He said to me, “Lo, I have given you bull’s dung instead of man’s dung. And you shall prepare your bread with it.”
16 Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care. And they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment,
17 “because bread and water shall fail. They shall be appalled with one another and shall waste away because of their iniquity.”
40 I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.
2 Also, He brought me out of the horrible pit—out of the miry clay—and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.
3 And He has put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not regard the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 You have made many, O LORD my God, Your wonderful works; so that no one can count to You, in order, Your thoughts toward us. I would declare and speak of them, but they are more than I am able to express.
6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
7 Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.
8 “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”
9 I have declared righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, You know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your truth and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great Congregation.
11 Do not withdraw Your tender mercy from me, O LORD. Let Your mercy and Your truth always preserve me.
12 For innumerable troubles have surrounded me. My sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up. They are more in number than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart has failed me.
13 Let it please You, O LORD, to deliver me. Hurry, O LORD, to help me.
14 Let those who seek my soul to destroy it be confounded and put to shame together. Let those who desire my hurt be driven backward and put to rebuke.
15 Let those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be destroyed as a reward for their shame,
16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, and let those who love Your salvation, say always, “The LORD be praised!”
17 Though I be poor and needy, the LORD thinks on me. You are my Helper and my Deliverer. My God, do not delay. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
41 Blessed is he who judges wisely of the poor. The LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.
2 The LORD will keep him and preserve him alive. He shall be blessed upon the Earth; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of sorrow. You have turned all his bed in his sickness.
4 I said, “LORD have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
5 My enemies speak evil of me, saying, “When shall he die, and his name perish?”
6 And if he come to see me, he speaks lies; his heart heaps iniquity within him. When he comes forth, he tells it.
7 All those who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine my hurt against me, saying,
8 “A mischief lies upon him,” and, “He who lies shall rise no more.”
9 Indeed, my familiar friend whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up the heel against me.
10 Therefore, O LORD, have mercy upon me and raise me up. So shall I reward them.
11 By this I know that You favor me: because my enemy does not triumph against me.
12 And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and set me before Your face forever.
13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, world without end! So be it. Even so be it! To him who excels: A Psalm to give instruction, committed to the sons of Korah.
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