The Bible in One Year
Judges 9, Malachi 3, Hebrews 6, Matthew 22
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Judges 9 |
| Judges 9:1 | And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying, |
| Judges 9:2 | Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh. |
| Judges 9:3 | And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother. |
| Judges 9:4 | And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him. |
| Judges 9:5 | And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. |
| Judges 9:6 | And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem. |
| Judges 9:7 | And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. |
| Judges 9:8 | The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. |
| Judges 9:9 | But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? |
| Judges 9:10 | And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us. |
| Judges 9:11 | But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? |
| Judges 9:12 | Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. |
| Judges 9:13 | And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? |
| Judges 9:14 | Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. |
| Judges 9:15 | And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. |
| Judges 9:16 | Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; |
| Judges 9:17 | (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: |
| Judges 9:18 | And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;) |
| Judges 9:19 | If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: |
| Judges 9:20 | But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. |
| Judges 9:21 | And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. |
| Judges 9:22 | When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, |
| Judges 9:23 | Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: |
| Judges 9:24 | That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren. |
| Judges 9:25 | And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. |
| Judges 9:26 | And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him. |
| Judges 9:27 | And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. |
| Judges 9:28 | And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him? |
| Judges 9:29 | And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out. |
| Judges 9:30 | And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. |
| Judges 9:31 | And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee. |
| Judges 9:32 | Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field: |
| Judges 9:33 | And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion. |
| Judges 9:34 | And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. |
| Judges 9:35 | And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait. |
| Judges 9:36 | And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men. |
| Judges 9:37 | And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim. |
| Judges 9:38 | Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them. |
| Judges 9:39 | And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. |
| Judges 9:40 | And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate. |
| Judges 9:41 | And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem. |
| Judges 9:42 | And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech. |
| Judges 9:43 | And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. |
| Judges 9:44 | And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them. |
| Judges 9:45 | And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. |
| Judges 9:46 | And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. |
| Judges 9:47 | And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. |
| Judges 9:48 | And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. |
| Judges 9:49 | And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. |
| Judges 9:50 | Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. |
| Judges 9:51 | But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. |
| Judges 9:52 | And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. |
| Judges 9:53 | And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull. |
| Judges 9:54 | Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. |
| Judges 9:55 | And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place. |
| Judges 9:56 | Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: |
| Judges 9:57 | And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. |
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Malachi 3 |
| Malachi 3:1 | Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| Malachi 3:2 | But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: |
| Malachi 3:3 | And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. |
| Malachi 3:4 | Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. |
| Malachi 3:5 | And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| Malachi 3:6 | For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. |
| Malachi 3:7 | Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? |
| Malachi 3:8 | Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. |
| Malachi 3:9 | Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
| Malachi 3:10 | Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. |
| Malachi 3:11 | And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| Malachi 3:12 | And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| Malachi 3:13 | Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? |
| Malachi 3:14 | Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? |
| Malachi 3:15 | And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. |
| Malachi 3:16 | Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. |
| Malachi 3:17 | And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. |
| Malachi 3:18 | Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. |
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Hebrews 6 |
| Hebrews 6:1 | Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, |
| Hebrews 6:2 | Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. |
| Hebrews 6:3 | And this will we do, if God permit. |
| Hebrews 6:4 | For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, |
| Hebrews 6:5 | And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, |
| Hebrews 6:6 | If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. |
| Hebrews 6:7 | For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: |
| Hebrews 6:8 | But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. |
| Hebrews 6:9 | But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. |
| Hebrews 6:10 | For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. |
| Hebrews 6:11 | And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: |
| Hebrews 6:12 | That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. |
| Hebrews 6:13 | For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, |
| Hebrews 6:14 | Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. |
| Hebrews 6:15 | And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. |
| Hebrews 6:16 | For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. |
| Hebrews 6:17 | Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: |
| Hebrews 6:18 | That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: |
| Hebrews 6:19 | Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; |
| Hebrews 6:20 | Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. |
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Matthew 22 |
| Matthew 22:1 | And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, |
| Matthew 22:2 | The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, |
| Matthew 22:3 | And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. |
| Matthew 22:4 | Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. |
| Matthew 22:5 | But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: |
| Matthew 22:6 | And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. |
| Matthew 22:7 | But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. |
| Matthew 22:8 | Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. |
| Matthew 22:9 | Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. |
| Matthew 22:10 | So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. |
| Matthew 22:11 | And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: |
| Matthew 22:12 | And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. |
| Matthew 22:13 | Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
| Matthew 22:14 | For many are called, but few are chosen. |
| Matthew 22:15 | Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. |
| Matthew 22:16 | And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. |
| Matthew 22:17 | Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? |
| Matthew 22:18 | But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? |
| Matthew 22:19 | shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. |
| Matthew 22:20 | And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? |
| Matthew 22:21 | They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. |
| Matthew 22:22 | When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. |
| Matthew 22:23 | The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, |
| Matthew 22:24 | Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. |
| Matthew 22:25 | Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: |
| Matthew 22:26 | Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. |
| Matthew 22:27 | And last of all the woman died also. |
| Matthew 22:28 | Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. |
| Matthew 22:29 | Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. |
| Matthew 22:30 | For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. |
| Matthew 22:31 | But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, |
| Matthew 22:32 | I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. |
| Matthew 22:33 | And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine. |
| Matthew 22:34 | But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. |
| Matthew 22:35 | Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, |
| Matthew 22:36 | Master, which is the great commandment in the law? |
| Matthew 22:37 | Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. |
| Matthew 22:38 | This is the first and great commandment. |
| Matthew 22:39 | And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. |
| Matthew 22:40 | On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. |
| Matthew 22:41 | While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, |
| Matthew 22:42 | Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. |
| Matthew 22:43 | He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, |
| Matthew 22:44 | The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? |
| Matthew 22:45 | If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? |
| Matthew 22:46 | And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions. |
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