The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for March 4:

First, Genesis Chapter 37 verses 1 to 17. Follow that by reading 1 Samuel Chapter 14 verses 4 to 30. The third part is from 2 Chronicles Chapter 9 verse 25 to Chapter 10 verse 11; and lastly from Mark Chapter 8 verse 27 to Chapter 9 verse 8

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 37:1-17

17 verses

Genesis Chapter 37

1Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

2This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." 8His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

9He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me." 10He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?" 11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

13Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am." 14He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?" 16He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock." 17The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

Section 2

1 Samuel 14:4-30

27 verses

1 Samuel Chapter 14

4Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

5The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

6Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that ForeverOne will work for us; for there is no restraint on ForeverOne to save by many or by few." 7His armor bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Turn and, behold, I am with you according to your heart." 8Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.

9If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

10But if they say this, 'Come up to us!' then we will go up; for ForeverOne has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us." 11Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, "Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!" 12The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you something!" Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come up after me; for ForeverOne has delivered them into the hand of Israel." 13Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.

14That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

15There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.

16The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there.

17Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count now, and see who is missing from us." When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

18Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God here." For the ark of God was [there] at that time with the children of Israel.

19It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!" 20Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.

21Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] all around, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

22Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

23So ForeverOne saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.

24The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

25All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

26When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

27But Jonathan didn't hear when his father commanded the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

28Then one of the people answered, and said, "Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed is the man who eats food this day.'" The people were faint.

29Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

30How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? For now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines."

Section 3

2 Chronicles 9:25-10:11

18 verses

2 Chronicles Chapter 9

25Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

26He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

27The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

28They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

29Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

30Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

31Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles Chapter 10

1Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

2It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

3They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 4"Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you." 5He said to them, "Come again to me after three days." The people departed.

6King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?" 7They spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." 8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

9He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'" 10The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;' thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

11Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.'"

Section 4

Mark 8:27-9:8

20 verses

Mark Chapter 8

27Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" 28They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others, one of the prophets." 29He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the AnointedOne." 30He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

32He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

33But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men." 34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

37For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

38For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father's glory, with the holy angels."

Mark Chapter 9

1He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God's Kingdom come with power." 2After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

4Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.

5Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 6For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.

7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my dear Son. Listen to him." 8Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.

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