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Through My Bible Yr 01 – August 16

Psalms 42 – 43

Psalms 42 – 43 (EHV)
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Book II
Psalms 42–72

For the choir director. A maskil ^[2] by the Sons of Korah. ^[3]

¹ As a doe pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and appear before God? ^[4]
3 My tears have been food for me day and night,
while people are saying to me all day,
“Where is your God?”

⁴ I am overcome by my emotions
whenever I remember these things:
how I used to arrive with the crowd,
as I led the procession to the house of God,
with loud shouts of thanksgiving,
with the crowd celebrating the festival.

⁵ Why are you so depressed, ^[5] O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I will again praise him
for salvation from his presence. ^[6]

⁶ My God, my soul is depressed within me.
Therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan,
from the heights of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep in the roar of your rapids.
All your breakers and your waves have swept over me.
⁸ By day the Lord commands his mercy,
and at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
⁹ I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go around mourning because of oppression by the enemy?”
¹⁰ It is like breaking my bones when my foes taunt me.
All day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

¹¹ Why are you so depressed, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I will again praise him
for my salvation from the face of my God. ^[7]

¹ Judge me justly, O God,
and plead my case against an ungodly nation.
Rescue me from the deceitful, wicked man.
² I know you are God, my stronghold.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go around mourning
because of oppression by the enemy?
³ Send out your light and your truth.
Let them guide me.
Let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling.
⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God, my joy and gladness.
Then I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

⁵ Why are you so depressed, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I will again praise him
for my salvation from the face of my God. ^[8]

1. Psalm 42:1 These two psalms are treated as a unit since they are united by a common theme, a common refrain, and a single heading.
2. Psalm 42:1 Maskil is a musical term of uncertain meaning. It may be a skillful song or a song that gives wisdom. This form is used also in Psalms 44 and 45.
3. Psalm 42:1 The Sons of Korah were a group of levitical musicians, who apparently were descendants of the Korah who rebelled against Moses. In this section of Psalms, Psalms 42–49 were written by them.
4. Psalm 42:2 A different reading of the Hebrew verb yields the translation see the face of God.
5. Psalm 42:5 Literally bowed down or cast down
6. Psalm 42:5 Many translations emend this verse to agree with verses 42:11 and 43:5.
7. Psalm 42:11 Literally the salvation of my face and my God
8. Psalm 43:5 Literally the salvation of my face and my God

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Through My Bible Yr 01 – August 25

2 Samuel 4:1 – 5:16

2 Samuel 4:1 – 5:16 (EHV)
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2 Samuel 4

¹ When Saul’s son heard that Abner had died at Hebron, he lost his courage, and all Israel panicked.

² Saul’s son had two men who were commanders of raiding bands. One was named Ba’anah; ^[1] the second was Rekab. They were Benjaminites, sons of Rimmon from Be’eroth. (Be’eroth is considered part of Benjamin. ³ The Be’erothites fled to Gittaim. They have lived there as aliens until the present time.)

⁴ Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son with crippled feet. This son had been five years old when the report had come from Jezre’el about Saul and Jonathan. His caregiver picked him up and fled. While she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became crippled. His name was Mephibosheth. ^[2]

⁵ Ba’anah and Rekab, the sons of Rimmon from Be’eroth, went out during the heat of the day and came to the house of Ishbosheth while he was lying down for his midday rest. ⁶ ⎣The doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she had grown drowsy and fallen asleep. So Rekab and his brother Ba’anah slipped in.⎦ ^[3] They came into the inner part of the house as if they were coming to get wheat. They stabbed Ishbosheth in the stomach. Then Rekab and his brother Ba’anah escaped. ⁷ They had gone into the house while Ishbosheth was lying on his bed in the room where he rested. They struck him, killed him, and cut off his head. Taking his head with them, they traveled on the Arabah Road all night.

⁸ They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, “Look! Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. This day the Lord has given my lord the king vengeance on Saul and his offspring.”

⁹ David answered Rekab and his brother Ba’anah, the sons of Rimmon from Be’eroth, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from every evil, ¹⁰ the man who told me, ‘Look! Saul is dead,’ thought that he was bringing good news, but I seized him and killed him at Ziklag. That is what I gave him for his ‘good news.’ ¹¹ So now that wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his own bed, will I not require his blood from your hand! I will wipe you off the face of the earth.” ¹² Then David gave the orders to his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. They took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

2 Samuel 5

¹ All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron. They said, “Look, we are your flesh and blood. ^{[4] 2} Day after day, even when Saul was king, you were the one leading Israel out to battle and back again. And you are the one to whom the Lord said, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel. You will become leader over Israel.’”

³ So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the presence of the Lord. They anointed David king over Israel. ⁴ David was thirty years old when he became king, and he ruled as king for forty years. ⁵ He was king over Judah at Hebron for seven years and six months. For thirty-three years he was king over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem.

⁶ The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, who were living in the land. The Jebusites said to David, “You will not get in here, because you could be kept out even by the blind and lame, who say, ‘David will not come in here.’” ⁷ Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, which became the City of David.

⁸ David said on that day, “Anyone who attacks the Jebusites must go up through the water shaft ^[5] to get at those lame and blind enemies of David.” Therefore the saying came about, “The blind and the lame will not come into the house.”

⁹ David lived in the stronghold and called it the City of David. David built up all sides of the stronghold from the Millo ^[6] inward. ¹⁰ David kept getting greater and greater, because the Lord, the God of Armies, was with him.

¹¹ Hiram king of Tyre sent representatives to David with cedar logs, carpenters, a...

Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 31

Isaiah 38 – 39

Isaiah 38 – 39 (EHV)
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Isaiah 38

¹ In those days Hezekiah became sick and was dying. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the Lord says. Give instructions to your household, because you are going to die. You will not survive.”

² So Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. ³ He said, “Please remember, Lord, how I have walked before you in truth and with my whole heart. I have done what is good in your eyes.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah.

⁵ Go back and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says:

I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Now then, I will add fifteen years to your life. ⁶ I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

⁷ This will be the sign from the Lord to you. The Lord will do what he has promised. ⁸ Watch! I will make the shadow of the setting sun that has moved down the stairway of Ahaz move back, ten steps higher on the staircase.

Then the sun’s shadow moved backwards, ten steps higher on the stairway that it had just descended.

⁹ A poem written by Hezekiah king of Judah, after his illness and recovery. ^[1]

¹⁰ I thought that, only halfway through my life,
I was entering into the gates of death, ^[2]
deprived of the remaining years of my life.
¹¹ I thought, I will not see the Lord—
the Lord ^[3] in the land of the living.
I will no longer see anyone among the inhabitants of the world. ^[4]
12 My dwelling place is being pulled down.
It is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life like a weaver.
He is cutting me off from the loom.
From day until night, you make an end of me. ^[5]
13 I pondered this until the morning.
He will break all my bones like a lion!
From day until night, you make an end of me.
¹⁴ I chirp weakly like a swift or a swallow.
I mourn like a dove.
My eyes are tired from looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed.
Be my security.

¹⁵ What can I say?
He has spoken to me, and he is the one to act.
I will march slowly throughout all my years,
because my heart is bitter. ^[6]
16 Lord, people live because you give them life.
My spirit lives through this. ^[7]
Restore me, and let me live. ^[8]
17 The bitter things I experienced were for my benefit.
Your love has preserved my life from the pit of destruction,
for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.
¹⁸ The grave ^[9] cannot thank you.
Death cannot praise you.
Those who go down into the pit cannot trust your faithfulness.
¹⁹ The living one, the living one, he praises you, as I do today.
A father tells his children about your faithfulness.
²⁰ The Lord will save me,
so we will sing songs with stringed instruments
all the days of our lives in the House of the Lord.

²¹ Isaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs, apply it as a poultice on the inflamed spot, and he will recover.”

²² Hezekiah had also asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the House of the Lord?”

Isaiah 39

¹ At that time, Merodak ^[10] Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick and had recovered. ² Hezekiah was happy to receive the envoys, and he showed them his palace treasury—the silver and the gold, the spices and the precious oil, his whole armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace or in all his domain that Hezekiah did not show them.

³ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men say? Where did they come from?”

Hezekiah replied, “They have come from a faraway country, from Babylon.”

⁴ The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?”

Hezekiah said, “They have seen everything in my palace. There is nothing among my treasures th...

Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 05

John 18:28 – 19:16

John 18:28 – 19:16 (EHV)
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John 18

²⁸ Early in the morning, the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. They did not enter the Praetorium themselves, so that they would not become ceremonially unclean. (They wanted to be able to eat the Passover meal.) ²⁹ So Pilate went out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man?”

³⁰ They answered him, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”

³¹ Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.”

The Jews said, “It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death.” ³² This happened so that the statement Jesus had spoken indicating what kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled.

³³ Pilate went back into the Praetorium and summoned Jesus. He asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

³⁴ Jesus answered, “Are you saying this on your own, or did others tell you about me?”

³⁵ Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”

³⁶ Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here.”

³⁷ “You are a king then?” Pilate asked.

Jesus answered, “I am, as you say, a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

³⁸ “What is truth?” Pilate said to him.

After he said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against him. ³⁹ But you have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?”

⁴⁰ Then they shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a rebel.)

John 19

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. ² The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns and placed it on his head. Then they threw a purple robe around him. ³ They kept coming to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they kept hitting him in the face.

⁴ Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

⁵ So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”

⁶ When the chief priests and guards saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

⁷ The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”

⁸ When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. ⁹ He went back inside the palace again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?”

But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰ So Pilate asked him, “Are you not talking to me? Don’t you know that I have the authority to release you or to crucify you?”

¹¹ Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over me at all if it had not been given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

¹² From then on Pilate tried to release Jesus. But the Jews shouted, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!”

¹³ When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, or Gabbatha in Aramaic. ¹⁴ It was about the sixth hour ^[1] on the Preparation Day for the Passover. Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”

¹⁵ They shouted, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

¹⁶ So then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified.

So they took Jesus away.

1. John 19:14 The word about indicates an approximate time reference. Likely this was ...

Through My Bible Yr 01 – October 16

John 2:1-22

John 2:1-22 (EHV)
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John 2

¹ Three days later, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. ² Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

³ When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

⁴ Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My time has not come yet.”

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

⁶ Six stone water jars, which the Jews used for ceremonial cleansing, were standing there, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. ^{[1] 7} Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. ⁸ Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” And they did.

⁹ When the master of the banquet tasted the water that had now become wine, he did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew). The master of the banquet called the bridegroom ¹⁰ and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have had plenty to drink, then the cheaper wine. You saved the good wine until now!”

¹¹ This, the beginning of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

¹² After this, he went down to Capernaum with his mother, brothers, and disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

¹³ The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴ In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers sitting at tables. ¹⁵ He made a whip of cords and drove everyone out of the temple courts, along with the sheep and oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ To those selling doves he said, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a place of business!”

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” ^[2]

¹⁸ So the Jews responded, “What sign are you going to show us to prove you can do these things?”

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

²⁰ The Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! And you are going to raise it in three days?” ²¹ But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. ²² When Jesus was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and what Jesus had said.

1. John 2:6 Greek two or three metretas. One metretes held about ten gallons.
2. John 2:17 Psalm 69:9

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