The Bible Reading Plan

17 verses

Exodus Chapter 4

²⁴On the way at a lodging place, ForeverOne met him and wanted to kill him.

²⁵Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." ²⁶So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

²⁷ForeverOne said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

²⁸Moses told Aaron all the words of ForeverOne with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

²⁹Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

³⁰Aaron spoke all the words which ForeverOne had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

³¹The people believed, and when they heard that ForeverOne had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Exodus Chapter 5

¹Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what ForeverOne, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'" ²Pharaoh said, "Who is ForeverOne, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know ForeverOne, and moreover I will not let Israel go." ³They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to ForeverOne, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword." ⁴The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" ⁵Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens." ⁶That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, ⁷"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

⁸The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. Don't diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' ⁹Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

21 verses

2 Samuel Chapter 14

⁴When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and showed respect, and said, "Help, O king!" ⁵The king said to her, "What troubles you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

⁶Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

⁷Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth." ⁸The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you." ⁹The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless." ¹⁰The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more." ¹¹Then she said, "Please let the king remember ForeverOne your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As ForeverOne lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth." ¹²Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on." ¹³The woman said, "Then why have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

¹⁴For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

¹⁵Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.' ¹⁶For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

¹⁷Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May ForeverOne, your God, be with you.'" ¹⁸Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak." ¹⁹The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid; ²⁰to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth." ²¹The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back." ²²Joab fell to the ground on his face, and showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant." ²³So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

²⁴The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

14 verses

2 Chronicles Chapter 33

⁴He built altars in the house of ForeverOne, of which ForeverOne said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever." ⁵He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of ForeverOne.

⁶He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of ForeverOne, to provoke him to anger.

⁷He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever: ⁸neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses." ⁹Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom ForeverOne destroyed before the children of Israel did.

¹⁰ForeverOne spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.

¹¹Therefore ForeverOne brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

¹²When he was in distress, he begged ForeverOne his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

¹³He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that ForeverOne was God.

¹⁴Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

¹⁵He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of ForeverOne, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of ForeverOne, and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city.

¹⁶He built up the altar of ForeverOne, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve ForeverOne, the God of Israel.

¹⁷Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to ForeverOne their God.

22 verses

Luke Chapter 7

⁴⁴Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

⁴⁵You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

⁴⁶You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

⁴⁷So I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little." ⁴⁸He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." ⁴⁹Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" ⁵⁰He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

Luke Chapter 8

¹Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God's Kingdom. With him were the twelve, ²and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; ³and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

⁴When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

⁵"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

⁶Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

⁷Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

⁸Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" ⁹Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?" ¹⁰He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of God's Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.' ¹¹Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

¹²Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

¹³Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

¹⁴What fell among the thorns are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

¹⁵Those in the good ground, are the ones who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.