The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for March 14:

First, Genesis Chapter 42 verses 1 to 17. Follow that by reading from 1 Samuel Chapter 21 verse 7 to Chapter 22 verse 12. The third part is 2 Chronicles Chapter 18 verses 18 to 34; and lastly from Mark Chapter 13 verse 24 to Chapter 14 verse 9

You can read the passages below. If you're looking to read for a different day or want to use your own Bible, then here’s the entire year’s plan as a list. Enjoy!

For certain interesting words:

Section 1

Genesis 42:1-17

17 verses

Genesis Chapter 42

1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" 2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die." 3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

4But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." 5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food." 8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

9Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land." 10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies." 12He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!" 13They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more." 14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!' 15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

16Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." 17He put them all together into custody for three days.

Section 2

1 Samuel 21:7-22:12

21 verses

1 Samuel Chapter 21

7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before ForeverOne; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

8David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste." 9The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me." 10David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

11The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'" 12David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

13He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

14Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?

15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"

1 Samuel Chapter 22

1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

2Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

3David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me." 4He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

5The prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

6Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

7Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, 8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?" 9Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

10He inquired of ForeverOne for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." 11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

12Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

Section 3

2 Chronicles 18:18-34

17 verses

2 Chronicles Chapter 18

18[Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear the word of ForeverOne: I saw ForeverOne sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

19ForeverOne said, 'Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way.

20A spirit came out, stood before ForeverOne, and said, 'I will entice him.' "ForeverOne said to him, 'How?' 21"He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' "He said, 'You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go forth, and do so.' 22"Now therefore, behold, ForeverOne has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and ForeverOne has spoken evil concerning you." 23Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of ForeverOne go from me to speak to you?" 24Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner room to hide yourself." 25The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; 26and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace."'" 27Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, ForeverOne has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, you peoples, all of you!" 28So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.

29The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.

30Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, "Fight neither with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel." 31It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, "It is the king of Israel!" Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and ForeverOne helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

32It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

33A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded." 34The battle increased that day. However the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and about the time of the going down of the sun, he died.

Section 4

Mark 13:24-14:9

23 verses

Mark Chapter 13

24But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, 25the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

26Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

27Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

28"Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has become tender, and produces leaves, you know that the summer is near; 29even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.

30Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.

31Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

32But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

33Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

34"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

35So watch. For you don't know when the master of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; 36lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

37What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."

Mark Chapter 14

1It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

2For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people." 3While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

4But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?

5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." So they grumbled against her.

6But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

8She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

9Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."

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