The Bible Reading Plan

Exodus Chapter 40

¹ForeverOne spoke to Moses, saying, ²"On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

³You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

⁴You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.

⁵You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

⁶"You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

⁷You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water in it.

⁸You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

⁹"You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.

¹⁰You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.

¹¹You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.

¹²"You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

¹³You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.

¹⁴You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

¹⁵You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." ¹⁶Moses did so. According to all that ForeverOne commanded him, so he did.

¹⁷In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.

¹⁸Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.

¹⁹He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as ForeverOne commanded Moses.

²⁰He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.

²¹He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as ForeverOne commanded Moses.

2 Kings Chapter 19

⁵So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁶Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall tell your master, 'Thus says ForeverOne, "Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

⁷Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."'" ⁸So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

⁹When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰'Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹¹Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?

¹²Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?

¹³Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?"'" ¹⁴Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of ForeverOne, and spread it before ForeverOne.

¹⁵Hezekiah prayed before ForeverOne, and said, "ForeverOne, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

¹⁶Incline your ear, ForeverOne, and hear. Open your eyes, ForeverOne, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living God.

¹⁷Truly, ForeverOne, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, ¹⁸and have thrown their gods into the fire; for they were no gods [at all], but [only] the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

¹⁹Now therefore, ForeverOne our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, ForeverOne, are God alone." ²⁰Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says ForeverOne, the God of Israel, 'Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.

²¹This is the word that ForeverOne has spoken concerning him: "The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

²²Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

²³By your messengers you have defied LordOfMine, and have said, 'With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

²⁴I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.' ²⁵Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁶Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like green plants, like grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

²⁷But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

²⁸Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came."

Job Chapter 13

¹"Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

²What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

³"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

⁴But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

⁵Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

⁶Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

⁷Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

⁸Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

⁹Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

¹⁰He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.

¹¹Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

¹²Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

¹³"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

¹⁴Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

¹⁵Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

¹⁶This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

¹⁷Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

¹⁸See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

¹⁹Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and breathe my last.

²⁰"Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face: ²¹withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.

²²Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

²³How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

²⁴Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

²⁵Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

²⁶For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth: ²⁷You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, ²⁸though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job Chapter 14

¹"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

²Like a flower he springs up, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass; ⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

John Chapter 18

¹⁹So the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

²⁰Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

²¹Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said." ²²When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?" ²³Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?" ²⁴Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

²⁵Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." ²⁶One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?" ²⁷So Peter denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

²⁸So they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

²⁹Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" ³⁰They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you." ³¹So Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." So the Jews said to him, "It is illegal for us to put anyone to death," ³²that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

³³So Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" ³⁴Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?" ³⁵Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?" ³⁶Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here." ³⁷So Pilate said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

³⁹But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" ⁴⁰Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.