The Bible Reading Plan

Genesis Chapter 21

¹⁷God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

¹⁸Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation." ¹⁹God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

²⁰God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

²¹He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

²²It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

²³Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner." ²⁴Abraham said, "I will swear." ²⁵Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

²⁶Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today." ²⁷Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

²⁸Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

²⁹Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?" ³⁰He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." ³¹Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

³²So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

³³Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of ForeverOne, the Everlasting God.

³⁴Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Judges Chapter 5

¹⁸Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the deaths; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

¹⁹"The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.

²⁰From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.

²¹The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.

²²Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

²³'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of ForeverOne. 'Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help ForeverOne, to help ForeverOne against the mighty.' ²⁴"Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

²⁵He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

²⁶She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.

²⁷At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

²⁸"Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother looked through the lattice. 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?' ²⁹Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself, ³⁰'Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?' ³¹"So let all your enemies perish, ForeverOne, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.

Judges Chapter 6

¹The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of ForeverOne: and ForeverOne delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

²The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

³So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them; ⁴and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

⁵For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

⁶Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to ForeverOne.

⁷It happened, when the children of Israel cried to ForeverOne because of Midian, ⁸that ForeverOne sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, "Thus says ForeverOne, the God of Israel, 'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of slavery; ⁹and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land; ¹⁰and I said to you, "I am ForeverOne your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell." But you have not listened to my voice.'" ¹¹The angel of ForeverOne came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

1 Chronicles Chapter 16

⁴He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of ForeverOne, and to celebrate and to thank and praise ForeverOne, the God of Israel: ⁵Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; ⁶and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

⁷Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to ForeverOne, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

⁸Oh give thanks to ForeverOne. Call on his name. Make his doings known among the peoples.

⁹Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.

¹⁰Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek ForeverOne rejoice.

¹¹Seek ForeverOne and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

¹²Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, ¹³you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

¹⁴He is ForeverOne our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

¹⁵Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, ¹⁶[the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

¹⁷He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹⁸saying, "I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance," ¹⁹when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

²⁰They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

²¹He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, ²²"Don't touch my anointed! Do my prophets no harm!" ²³Sing to ForeverOne, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day.

²⁴Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples.

²⁵For great is ForeverOne, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

²⁶For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but ForeverOne made the heavens.

²⁷Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place.

²⁸Ascribe to ForeverOne, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to ForeverOne glory and strength!

²⁹Ascribe to ForeverOne the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship ForeverOne in holy array.

Matthew Chapter 20

¹⁷As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, ¹⁸"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, ¹⁹and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up." ²⁰Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

²¹He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom." ²²But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able." ²³He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father." ²⁴When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.

²⁵But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the nations domineer them, and their great ones dominate them.

²⁶It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

²⁷Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, ²⁸even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." ²⁹As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

³⁰Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" ³¹The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" ³²Jesus stood still and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³³They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened." ³⁴Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.