Daily Readings for August 10

Daily Readings for August 10
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1Kings 4

1.King Solomon was king over all Israel. 2.These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; 3.Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; 4.and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 5.and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king's friend; 6.and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. 7.Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. 8.These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; 9.Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; 10.Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); 11.Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); 12.Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; 13.Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); 14.Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 15.Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); 16.Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 17.Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 18.Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 19.Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land. 20.Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. 21.Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life. 22.Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, 23.ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. 24.For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him. 25.Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 26.Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 27.Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. 28.Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his duty. 29.God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. 30.Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31.For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around. 32.He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. 33.He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. 34.There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

1Kings 5

1.Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 2.Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3."You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet. 4.But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence. 5.Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for my name.' 6.Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

7.It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed is Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people." 8.Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 9.My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household."

10.So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. 11.Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. 12.Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a treaty together. 13.King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14.He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor. 15.Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; 16.besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work. 17.The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. 18.Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

Jeremiah 31

1.At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2.Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 3.Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. 4.Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry. 5.Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [its fruit]. 6.For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God. 7.For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish, praise, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel. 8.Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here. 9.They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 10.Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock. 11.For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 12.They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13.Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14.I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh. 15.Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. 16.Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. 17.There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border. 18.I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. 19.Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth. 20.Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh. 21.Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. 22.How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man. 23.Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness. 24.Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. 25.For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished. 26.On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. 27.Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal. 28.It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh. 29.In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 30.But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. 31.Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32.not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. 33.But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34.and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. 35.Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name: 36.If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. 37.Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh. 38.Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. 39.The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah. 40.The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

Mark 5

1.They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2.When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs. 3.He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, 4.because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. 5.Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. 6.When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, 7.and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me." 8.For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

9.He asked him, "What is your name?"

He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." 10.He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 11.Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding. 12.All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

13.At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. 14.Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

The people came to see what it was that had happened. 15.They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. 16.Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. 17.They began to beg him to depart from their region.

18.As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 19.He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

20.He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

21.When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. 22.Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, 23.and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

24.He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. 25.A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, 26.and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, 27.having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. 28.For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." 29.Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

30.Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

31.His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

32.He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 33.But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

34.He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."

35.While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"

36.But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe." 37.He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. 38.He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. 39.When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."

40.They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. 41.Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!" 42.Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. 43.He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.