July 11th (Day 192) Bible Reading

1 Chronicles 11:1-12:18

Acts 28:1-31
Psalm 9:1-12
Proverbs 19:1-3

1Ch 11:1  Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

1Ch 11:2  And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

1Ch 11:3  Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

1Ch 11:4  And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

1Ch 11:5  And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.

1Ch 11:6  And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.

1Ch 11:7  And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.

1Ch 11:8  And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

1Ch 11:9  So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.

1Ch 11:10  These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

1Ch 11:11  And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

1Ch 11:12  And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.

1Ch 11:13  He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

1Ch 11:14  And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.

1Ch 11:15  Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

1Ch 11:16  And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.

1Ch 11:17  And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!

1Ch 11:18  And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

1Ch 11:19  And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

1Ch 11:20  And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.

1Ch 11:21  Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

1Ch 11:22  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.

1Ch 11:23  And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

1Ch 11:24  These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.

1Ch 11:25  Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

1Ch 11:26  Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

1Ch 11:27  Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

1Ch 11:28  Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,

1Ch 11:29  Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

1Ch 11:30  Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

1Ch 11:31  Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

1Ch 11:32  Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,

1Ch 11:33  Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

1Ch 11:34  The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,

1Ch 11:35  Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

1Ch 11:36  Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

1Ch 11:37  Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,

1Ch 11:38  Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,

1Ch 11:39  Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

1Ch 11:40  Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

1Ch 11:41  Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

1Ch 11:42  Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

1Ch 11:43  Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,

1Ch 11:44  Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,

1Ch 11:45  Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

1Ch 11:46  Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

1Ch 11:47  Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.

1Ch 12:1  Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

1Ch 12:2  They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

1Ch 12:3  The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,

1Ch 12:4  And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

1Ch 12:5  Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

1Ch 12:6  Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,

1Ch 12:7  And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

1Ch 12:8  And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

1Ch 12:9  Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

1Ch 12:10  Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

1Ch 12:11  Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

1Ch 12:12  Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

1Ch 12:13  Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

1Ch 12:14  These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

1Ch 12:15  These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

1Ch 12:16  And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

1Ch 12:17  And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

1Ch 12:18  Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

Act 28:1  And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.

Act 28:2  And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

Act 28:3  And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

Act 28:4  And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

Act 28:5  And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

Act 28:6  Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

Act 28:7  In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

Act 28:8  And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

Act 28:9  So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:

Act 28:10  Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

Act 28:11  And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

Act 28:12  And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.

Act 28:13  And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:

Act 28:14  Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.

Act 28:15  And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.

Act 28:16  And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.

Act 28:17  And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Act 28:18  Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

Act 28:19  But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.

Act 28:20  For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

Act 28:21  And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.

Act 28:22  But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.

Act 28:23  And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

Act 28:24  And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.

Act 28:25  And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,

Act 28:26  Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

Act 28:27  For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Act 28:28  Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

Act 28:29  And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.

Act 28:30  And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,

Act 28:31  Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

Psa 9:1  To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

Psa 9:2  I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

Psa 9:3  When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

Psa 9:4  For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

Psa 9:5  Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

Psa 9:6  O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

Psa 9:7  But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

Psa 9:8  And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

Psa 9:9  The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Psa 9:10  And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Psa 9:11  Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

Psa 9:12  When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

Pro 19:1  Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Pro 19:2  Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Pro 19:3  The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.