Daily Readings for June 13
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Judges 12

 

1.The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!"

2.Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me out of their hand. 3.When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?"

4.Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh." 5.The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;" 6.then they said to him, "Now say 'Shibboleth;'" and he said "Sibboleth;" for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they siezed him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell. 7.Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead. 8.After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. 9.He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years. 10.Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. 11.After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. 12.Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. 13.After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. 14.He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years. 15.Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

 

Judges 13

 

1.The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. 2.There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear. 3.The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son. 4.Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing: 5.for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."

6.Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name: 7.but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"

8.Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, "Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born."

9.God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband, wasn't with her. 10.The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, "Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me that day."

11.Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to the woman?"

He said, "I am."

12.Manoah said, "Now let your words happen. What shall the child's way of life and mission be?"

13.The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware. 14.She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe."

15.Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "Please, let us detain you, that we may make a young goat ready for you."

16.The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh." For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.

17.Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?"

18.The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?"

19.So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did a wonderful thing as Manoah and his wife looked on. 20.For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. 21.But the angel of Yahweh didn't appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh. 22.Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."

23.But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these." 24.The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him. 25.The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

 

Isaiah 37

 

1.It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house. 2.He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3.They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. 4.It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'" 5.So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6.Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7.Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."'"

8.So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9.He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10."Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." 11.Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? 12.Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? 13.Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'"

14.Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house, and spread it before Yahweh. 15.Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, 16."Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 17.Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. 18.Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, 19.and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 20.Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only."

21.Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22.this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 23.Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. 24.By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. 25.I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt." 26.Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. 27.Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. 28.But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. 29.Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. 30.This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31.The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 32.For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.' 33.Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 34.By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh. 35.'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

36.The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37.So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. 38.It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

 

1Peter 3

 

1.In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; 2.seeing your pure behavior in fear. 3.Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; 4.but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious. 5.For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: 6.as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

7.You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

8.Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, 9.not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing. 10.For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. 11.Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it. 12.For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."¹⁰

13.Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good? 14.But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."¹¹ 15.But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear: 16.having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ. 17.For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil. 18.Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19.in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20.who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 21.This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22.who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

 

1Peter 4

 

1.Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 2.that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3.For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. 4.They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming: 5.who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6.For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit. 7.But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. 8.And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. 9.Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. 10.As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. 11.If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

12.Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. 13.But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. 14.If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. 15.For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters. 16.But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. 17.For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God? 18."If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"¹² 19.Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

 

1Peter 5

 

1.I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. 2.Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; 3.neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock. 4.When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn't fade away.

5.Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."¹³ 6.Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; 7.casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

8.Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9.Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. 10.But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 11.To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

12.Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. 13.She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you; and so does Mark, my son. 14.Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

 

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