Today’s Reading : 1Chronicles 10 - 12  and  2Corinthians 7  (KJV)

 

 

1Chronicles 10

1Ch 10:1  Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

1Ch 10:2  And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

1Ch 10:3  And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

1Ch 10:4  Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

1Ch 10:5  And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.

1Ch 10:6  So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.

1Ch 10:7  And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

1Ch 10:8  And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

1Ch 10:9  And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

1Ch 10:10  And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

1Ch 10:11  And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

1Ch 10:12  They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

1Ch 10:13  So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it;

1Ch 10:14  And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

 

 

1Chronicles 11

1Ch 11:1  Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

1Ch 11:2  And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

1Ch 11:3  Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

1Ch 11:4  And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

1Ch 11:5  And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.

1Ch 11:6  And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.

1Ch 11:7  And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.

1Ch 11:8  And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

1Ch 11:9  So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.

1Ch 11:10  These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

1Ch 11:11  And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

1Ch 11:12  And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.

1Ch 11:13  He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

1Ch 11:14  And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.

1Ch 11:15  Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

1Ch 11:16  And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.

1Ch 11:17  And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!

1Ch 11:18  And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

1Ch 11:19  And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

1Ch 11:20  And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.

1Ch 11:21  Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

1Ch 11:22  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.

1Ch 11:23  And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

1Ch 11:24  These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighty men.

1Ch 11:25  Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

1Ch 11:26  Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

1Ch 11:27  Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

1Ch 11:28  Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,

1Ch 11:29  Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

1Ch 11:30  Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

1Ch 11:31  Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

1Ch 11:32  Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,

1Ch 11:33  Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

1Ch 11:34  The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,

1Ch 11:35  Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

1Ch 11:36  Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

1Ch 11:37  Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,

1Ch 11:38  Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,

1Ch 11:39  Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

1Ch 11:40  Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

1Ch 11:41  Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

1Ch 11:42  Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

1Ch 11:43  Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,

1Ch 11:44  Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,

1Ch 11:45  Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

1Ch 11:46  Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

1Ch 11:47  Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.

 

 

1Chronicles 12

1Ch 12:1  Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

1Ch 12:2  They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

1Ch 12:3  The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,

1Ch 12:4  And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

1Ch 12:5  Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

1Ch 12:6  Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,

1Ch 12:7  And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

1Ch 12:8  And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

1Ch 12:9  Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

1Ch 12:10  Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

1Ch 12:11  Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

1Ch 12:12  Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

1Ch 12:13  Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

1Ch 12:14  These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

1Ch 12:15  These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

1Ch 12:16  And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

1Ch 12:17  And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

1Ch 12:18  Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

1Ch 12:19  And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.

1Ch 12:20  As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.

1Ch 12:21  And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.

1Ch 12:22  For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.

1Ch 12:23  And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

1Ch 12:24  The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

1Ch 12:25  Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.

1Ch 12:26  Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.

1Ch 12:27  And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;

1Ch 12:28  And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.

1Ch 12:29  And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.

1Ch 12:30  And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.

1Ch 12:31  And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.

1Ch 12:32  And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

1Ch 12:33  Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.

1Ch 12:34  And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.

1Ch 12:35  And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.

1Ch 12:36  And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.

1Ch 12:37  And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred and twenty thousand.

1Ch 12:38  All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

1Ch 12:39  And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

1Ch 12:40  Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

 

 

2Corinthians 7

2Co 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2Co 7:2  Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

2Co 7:3  I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

2Co 7:4  Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

2Co 7:5  For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

2Co 7:6  Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

2Co 7:7  And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

2Co 7:8  For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

2Co 7:9  Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

2Co 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

2Co 7:11  For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

2Co 7:12  Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

2Co 7:13  Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

2Co 7:14  For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

2Co 7:15  And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

2Co 7:16  I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.