Professor Horner’s Reading Plan

Read through the Bible in one year by reading 10 chapters a day from 10 different sections of the Bible using the Professor Grant Horner Bible reading plan.

Today, we are reading Luke 11; Numbers 27; Hebrews 1; 1 Timothy 6; Job 20; Psalms 144; Proverbs 20; 2 Kings 18; Ezekiel 21; Acts 4.

Luke 11

1	And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
2	And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
3	Give us day by day our daily bread.
4	And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
5	And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
6	For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
7	And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
8	I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
9	And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10	For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11	If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12	Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13	If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
14	And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
15	But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
16	And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
17	But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
18	If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
19	And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
20	But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
21	When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
22	But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
23	He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
24	When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25	And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26	Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
27	And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
28	But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
29	And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
30	For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
31	The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
32	The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
33	No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.
34	The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
35	Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
36	If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
37	And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
38	And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
39	And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
40	Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
41	But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
42	But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
43	Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
44	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
45	Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
46	And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47	Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48	Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.
49	Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
50	That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
51	From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
52	Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
53	And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
54	Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Numbers 27

1	Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
2	And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
3	Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
4	Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
5	And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
6	And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
7	The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
8	And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
9	And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
10	And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
11	And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
12	And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
13	And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
14	For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
15	And Moses spoke unto the LORD, saying,
16	Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
17	Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
18	And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
19	And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
20	And thou shalt put some of thine honor upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
21	And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
22	And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
23	And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

Hebrews 1

1	God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2	Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3	Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4	Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5	For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6	And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
7	And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8	But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
9	Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
10	And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
11	They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12	And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
13	But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
14	Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

1 Timothy 6

1	Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
2	And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
3	If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4	He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.
5	Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
6	But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7	For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8	And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9	But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10	For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11	But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12	Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
13	I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
14	That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
15	Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
16	Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
17	Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded; nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
18	That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
19	Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
20	O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
21	Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

Job 20

1	Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2	Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3	I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4	Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5	That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6	Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7	Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8	He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9	The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10	His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11	His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12	Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13	Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14	Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15	He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16	He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17	He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18	That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
19	Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he built not;
20	Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21	There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22	In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23	When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
24	He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
25	It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
26	All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27	The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
28	The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29	This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Psalms 144

1	A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2	My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
3	LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4	Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5	Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6	Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7	Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
8	Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9	I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
10	It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11	Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
12	That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
13	That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14	That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
15	Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Proverbs 20

1	Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2	The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
3	It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
4	The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
5	Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
6	Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7	The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
8	A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9	Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10	Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
11	Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12	The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
13	Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14	It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
15	There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
16	Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
17	Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
18	Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
19	He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
20	Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
21	An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22	Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
23	Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
24	Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
25	It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
26	A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
27	The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
28	Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
29	The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
30	The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

2 Kings 18

1	Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2	Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3	And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
4	He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5	He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6	For he cleaved to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
7	And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8	He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9	And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10	And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11	And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12	Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13	Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14	And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15	And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
16	At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17	And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
18	And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19	And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20	Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21	Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22	But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23	Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24	How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25	Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26	Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27	But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28	Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29	Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30	Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31	Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32	Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
33	Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34	Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35	Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36	But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37	Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

Ezekiel 21

1	And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2	Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3	And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
4	Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5	That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6	Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7	And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
8	Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9	Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10	It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
11	And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12	Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
13	Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
14	Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
15	I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16	Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
17	I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
18	The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
19	Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20	Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defensed.
21	For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22	At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
23	And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
24	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
25	And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26	Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27	I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28	And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29	While they see vanity unto thee, while they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30	Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31	And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.
32	Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

Acts 4

1	And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
2	Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3	And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
4	Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
5	And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
6	And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
7	And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
8	Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
9	If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
10	Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11	This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12	Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
13	Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
14	And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
15	But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
16	saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
17	But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
18	And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
19	But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
20	For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
21	So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
22	For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was showed.
23	And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
24	And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
25	Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
26	The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
27	For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
28	For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
29	And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
30	By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
31	And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
32	And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
33	And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
34	Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
35	And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
36	And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
37	Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

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