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Bible Reading for April 10
2 Samuel 22
[1] And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the
LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand
of Saul:
[2] And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; [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.
[5] When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid;
[6] The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
[7] In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did
hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. [8] Then
the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook,
because he was wroth.
[9] There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it. [10] He bowed the heavens also, and came
down; and darkness was under his feet.
[11] And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of
the wind.
[12] And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick
clouds of the skies.
[13] Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. [14] The
LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. [15] And he
sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
[16] And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were
discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his
nostrils.
[17] He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; [18] He
delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were
too strong for me.
[19] They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
[20] He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he
delighted in me.
[21] The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. [22] For I have kept the ways of
the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
[23] For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not
depart from them.
[24] I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
[25] Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness;
according to my cleanness in his eye sight. [26] With the merciful thou wilt
shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself
upright. [27] With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward
thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
[28] And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the
haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. [29] For thou art my lamp, O LORD:
and the LORD will lighten my darkness. [30] For by thee I have run through a
troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
[31] As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a
buckler to all them that trust in him. [32] For who is God, save the LORD? and
who is a rock, save our God? [33] God is my strength and power: and he maketh
my way perfect. [34] He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon
my high places. [35] He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is
broken by mine arms.
[36] Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness
hath made me great.
[37] Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. [38]
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I
had consumed them.
[39] And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise:
yea, they are fallen under my feet. [40] For thou hast girded me with strength
to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. [41] Thou
hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that
hate me.
[42] They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he
answered them not.
[43] Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them
as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. [44] Thou also hast
delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of
the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me. [45] Strangers shall
submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto
me.
[46] Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close
places.
[47] The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the
rock of my salvation.
[48] It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
[49] And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up
on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the
violent man.
[50] Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I
will sing praises unto thy name.
[51] He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
2 Samuel 23
[1] Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the
man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet
psalmist of Israel, said,
[2] The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. [3] The
God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men
must be just, ruling in the fear of God. [4] And he shall be as the light of
the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender
grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
[5] Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my
salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. [6] But the
sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot
be taken with hands: [7] But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with
iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in
the same place. [8] These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino
the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one
time. [9] And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the
three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there
gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: [10] He
arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave
unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people
returned after him only to spoil. [11] And after him was Shammah the son of
Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop,
where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the
Philistines. [12] But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it,
and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory. [13] And three
of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the
cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of
Rephaim.
[14] And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was
then in Bethlehem.
[15] And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water
of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! [16] And the three mighty men
brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of
Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David:
nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
[17] And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not
this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he
would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. [18] And Abishai,
the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted
up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among
three.
[19] Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain:
howbeit he attained not unto the first three. [20] And Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he
slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst
of a pit in time of snow: [21] And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the
Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and
plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
[22] These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among
three mighty men.
[23] He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first
three. And David set him over his guard. [24] Asahel the brother of Joab was
one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
[25] Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, [26] Helez the Paltite, Ira the
son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, [27] Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the
Hushathite, [28] Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, [29] Heleb the
son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the
children of Benjamin, [30] Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of
Gaash, [31] Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, [32] Eliahba the
Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, [33] Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam
the son of Sharar the Hararite, [34] Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of
the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
[35] Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, [36] Igal the son of Nathan of
Zobah, Bani the Gadite, [37] Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite,
armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
[38] Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, [39] Uriah the Hittite: thirty and
seven in all.
2 Samuel 24
[1] And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved
David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. [2] For the king said
to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the
tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that
I may know the number of the people. [3] And Joab said unto the king, Now the
LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and
that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king
delight in this thing? [4] Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against
Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the
host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
[5] And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of
the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: [6]
Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to
Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon, [7] And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to
all the cities of the Hibites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the
south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
[8] So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the
end of nine months and twenty days. [9] And Joab gave up the sum of the number
of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand
valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred
thousand men. [10] And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the
people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have
done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant;
for I have done very foolishly.
[11] For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the
prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, [12] Go and say unto David, Thus saith the
LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it
unto thee. [13] So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall
seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three
months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three
days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return
to him that sent me.
[14] And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the
hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand
of man.
[15] So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the
time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba
seventy thousand men.
[16] And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it,
the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the
people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by
the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. [17] And David spake unto the LORD
when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and
I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I
pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
[18] And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar
unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. [19] And David,
according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
[20] And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward
him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon
the ground.
[21] And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And
David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the
LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. [22] And Araunah said
unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him:
behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
instruments of the oxen for wood. [23] All these things did Araunah, as a
king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God
accept thee. [24] And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy
it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my
God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and
the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
[25] And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague
was stayed from Israel.
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