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 23; Exodus 17; Hebrews 2; 1 Thessalonians2; Job 5; Psalms 67; Proverbs 5; 1 Samuel 18; Jeremiah 1; Acts 11.

Luke 23

1	And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
2	And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
3	And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
4	Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
5	And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
6	When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.
7	And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
8	And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
9	Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.
10	And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
11	And Herod with his men of war set him at naught, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
12	And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
13	And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
14	Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
15	No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
16	I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
17	(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
18	And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
19	(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
20	Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
21	But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
22	And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
23	And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
24	And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
25	And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
26	And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
27	And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
28	But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29	For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30	Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31	For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
32	And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
33	And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34	Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
35	And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
36	And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
37	And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
38	And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
39	And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
40	But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41	And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42	And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43	And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
44	And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45	And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
46	And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
47	Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
48	And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
49	And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
50	And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor; and he was a good man, and a just:
51	(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
52	This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
53	And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
54	And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
55	And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.
56	And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Exodus 17

1	And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
2	Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
3	And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4	And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5	And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
6	Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7	And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
8	Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9	And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
10	So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11	And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12	But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13	And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14	And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15	And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
16	For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Hebrews 2

1	Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2	For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3	How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
4	God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
5	For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6	But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
7	Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
8	Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9	But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10	For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11	For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12	saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
13	And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
14	Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15	And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16	For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
17	Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18	For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.

Job 5

1	Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
2	For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3	I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4	His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5	Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6	Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7	Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8	I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9	Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
10	Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11	To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12	He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13	He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14	They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15	But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16	So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17	Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18	For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19	He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20	In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21	Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22	At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23	For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24	And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
25	Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26	Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
27	Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Psalms 67

1	To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song. God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
2	That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
3	Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
4	O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
5	Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
6	Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
7	God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Proverbs 5

1	My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2	That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3	For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4	But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5	Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6	Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.
7	Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8	Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9	Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10	Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
11	And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12	And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13	And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14	I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15	Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16	Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17	Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18	Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19	Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20	And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21	For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22	His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23	He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

1 Samuel 18

1	And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2	And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.
3	Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
4	And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
5	And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
6	And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.
7	And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
8	And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
9	And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
10	And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
11	And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
12	And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
13	Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
14	And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
15	Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
16	But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
17	And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
18	And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
19	But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
20	And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21	And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law in the one of the twain.
22	And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.
23	And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
24	And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.
25	And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26	And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law: and the days were not expired.
27	Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
28	And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
29	And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
30	Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

Jeremiah 1

1	The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
2	To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3	It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4	Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5	Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
6	Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
7	But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
8	Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
9	Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
10	See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
11	Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
12	Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
13	And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
14	Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
15	For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
16	And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
17	Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
18	For, behold, I have made thee this day a defensed city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
19	And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

Acts 11

1	And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
2	And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
3	saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
4	But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
5	I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
6	Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
7	And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
8	But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
9	But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
10	And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
11	And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
12	And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:
13	And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
14	Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
15	And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16	Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
17	Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
18	When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
19	Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
20	And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21	And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
22	Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
23	Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
24	For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
25	Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
26	And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
27	And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
28	And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
29	Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea:
30	Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

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