The Bible Reading Plan

Exodus Chapter 40

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²Raise up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the first month. ³Put the ark of the testimony in it, and screen the ark with the veil. ⁴Bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. Bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps. ⁵Set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

⁶Set the burnt offering altar before the door of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting. ⁷Set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it. ⁸Set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

⁹Take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and make it and all its furniture holy. And it will be holy. ¹⁰Anoint the burnt offering altar, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. The altar will be most holy. ¹¹Anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.

¹²Bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water. ¹³Put the holy garments on Aaron; and anoint him, and sanctify him, so he can minister to me in the priest's office. ¹⁴Bring his sons, and put tunics on them. ¹⁵Anoint them, as you anointed their father, so they can minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing will be for them as an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." ¹⁶Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

¹⁷In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up. ¹⁸Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. ¹⁹He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. ²⁰He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. ²¹He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

2 Kings Chapter 19

⁵So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ⁶Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall tell your master, 'Yahweh says, "Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ⁷Behold, 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."'"

⁸So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. ⁹When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again 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 will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ¹¹Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? ¹²Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? ¹³Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?"'"

¹⁴Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh. ¹⁵Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the throne-angels, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ¹⁶Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living God. ¹⁷Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, ¹⁸and have thrown their gods into the fire; for they were no gods [at all], but [only] the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. ¹⁹Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone."

²⁰Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Yahweh, the God of Israel says, 'Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you. ²¹This is the word that 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. ²²Whom 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. ²³By your messengers you have defied LordOfMine, 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; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field. ²⁴I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.' ²⁵Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. ²⁶Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like green plants, like grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up. ²⁷But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. ²⁸Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will 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."

Job Chapter 14

¹"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. ²Like a flower he springs up, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue. ³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you? ⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. ⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass; ⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

⁷"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. ⁸Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground, ⁹yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put out boughs like a plant. ¹⁰But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man breathes his last, and where is he? ¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, ¹²so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

¹³"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! ¹⁴If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come. ¹⁵You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands. ¹⁶But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin? ¹⁷My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

¹⁸"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place; ¹⁹The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. ²⁰You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away. ²¹His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them. ²²But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

John Chapter 18

¹⁹So the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

²⁰Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. ²¹Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said."

²²When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"

²³Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"

²⁴Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

²⁵Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not."

²⁶One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"

²⁷So Peter denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

²⁸So they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. ²⁹Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

³⁰They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

³¹So Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." So the Jews said to him, "It is illegal for us to put anyone to death," ³²that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

³³So Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

³⁴Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

³⁵Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"

³⁶Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

³⁷So Pilate said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

³⁸Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him. ³⁹But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

⁴⁰Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.