The Bible Reading Plan

Exodus Chapter 27

⁹"You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side: ¹⁰and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

¹¹Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

¹²For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

¹³The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

¹⁴The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

¹⁵For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

¹⁶For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

¹⁷All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

¹⁸The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

¹⁹All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

²⁰"You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

²¹In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before ForeverOne: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

1 Kings Chapter 20

¹Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

²He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, "Thus says Ben Hadad, ³'Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.'" ⁴The king of Israel answered, "It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have." ⁵The messengers came again, and said, "Ben Hadad says, 'I sent indeed to you, saying, "You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children; ⁶but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away."'" ⁷Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him." ⁸All the elders and all the people said to him, "Don't listen, neither consent." ⁹Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.'" The messengers departed, and brought him back the message.

¹⁰Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, "May the gods so deal with me, and even more, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me." ¹¹The king of Israel answered, "Tell him, 'Don't let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.'" ¹²When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he said to his servants, "Prepare to attack!" They prepared to attack the city.

¹³Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, "Thus says ForeverOne, 'Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today; and you shall know that I am ForeverOne.'" ¹⁴Ahab said, "By whom?" He said, "Thus says ForeverOne, 'By the young men of the princes of the provinces.'" Then he said, "Who shall begin the battle?" He answered, "You." ¹⁵Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

¹⁶They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

¹⁷The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, "Men are coming out from Samaria." ¹⁸He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive." ¹⁹So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

²⁰They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

²¹The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

²²The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you." ²³The servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

²⁴Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.

²⁵Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than them." He listened to their voice, and did so.

²⁶At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.

²⁷The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.

Nehemiah Chapter 12

¹Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, ²Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, ³Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, ⁴Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, ⁵Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, ⁶Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.

⁷Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.

⁸Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

⁹Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were opposite them according to their offices.

¹⁰Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada, ¹¹and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.

¹²In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' [houses]: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; ¹³of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; ¹⁴of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; ¹⁵of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; ¹⁶of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; ¹⁷of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; ¹⁸of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; ¹⁹and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; ²⁰of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; ²¹of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

²²As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers' [houses]; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

²³The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' [houses], were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

²⁴The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

²⁵Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.

²⁶These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.

²⁷At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

²⁸The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites; ²⁹also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages around Jerusalem.

John Chapter 4

¹¹The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

¹²Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?" ¹³Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." ¹⁵The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw." ¹⁶Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." ¹⁷The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' ¹⁸for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly." ¹⁹The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." ²¹Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

²²You worship what you don't know. We worship what we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

²³But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." ²⁵The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes, he who is called the AnointedOne. When he has come, he will declare to us all things." ²⁶Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you." ²⁷At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" ²⁸So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, ²⁹"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the AnointedOne?" ³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to him.