Daily Bible Reading: July 19

Justin Peters

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Judges 2. Then the angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bacchum, and he said,

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I brought you up out of Egypt, and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers. And I said,

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I will never break my covenant with you. And as for you, you shall cut no covenant with the inhabitants of this land.

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You shall tear down their altars. But you have not listened to my voice. What is this you have done?

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Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out before you, but they will become as thorns in your sides, and their gods will become a snare to you.

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So it happened that when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

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So they named that place Bacchum, and there they sacrificed to Yahweh. Then Joshua sent the people away, and the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land.

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And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who saw all the great work of Yahweh which he had done for Israel.

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Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died at the age of one hundred ten.

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And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath -harez, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gash.

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And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers, and there arose another generation after them who did not know

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Yahweh, or even the work which he had done for Israel. Then the sons of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and served the

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Baals. And they forsook Yahweh, the god of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them.

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Thus they provoked Yahweh to anger. So they forsook Yahweh, and served

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Baal and the Ashtoreth. And the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

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Wherever they went, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

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Then Yahweh raised up judges who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them. Yet they did not listen to their judges either.

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For they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of Yahweh.

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They did not do as their fathers. Now when Yahweh raised up judges for them, Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge.

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For Yahweh was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and suppressed them.

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But it happened when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them.

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They did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways. So the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he said,

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Because this nation has trespassed against my covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to my voice,

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I also will no longer dispossess before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, in order to test

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Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk in it as their fathers did or not.

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So Yahweh allowed those nations to rest, not dispossessing them quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

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Acts 6 Now in those days, while the disciples were multiplying in number, there was grumbling from the

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Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.

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So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, It is not pleasing to God for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

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Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the

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Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this need. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the service of the word.

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In this word pleased the whole congregation, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the

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Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas, a proselyte from Antioch.

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And these stood before the apostles, and after praying they laid their hands on them. And the word of God kept on spreading, and the number of the disciples continued to multiply greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

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And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders in signs among the people. But some men from what was called the

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Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia in Asia, rose up and were arguing with Stephen.

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But they were unable to oppose the wisdom and the spirit by whom he was speaking. Then they secretly induced men to say,

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We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God. And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes.

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And they came up to him, dragged him away, and brought him to the Sanhedrin. And they put forward false witnesses, who said,

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This man never ceases speaking words against this holy place and the law. For we have heard him say that this

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Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us.

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And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin saw his face like the face of an angel.

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Jeremiah 15 Then Yahweh said to me, Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my soul would not be with this people.

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Send them away from my presence, and let them go. And it will be that when they say to you,

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Where should we go? Then you are to tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Those destined for death to death, and those destined for the sword to the sword, and those destined for famine to famine, and those destined for captivity to captivity.

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I will appoint over them four kinds of doom, declares Yahweh, the sword to kill, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and bring to ruin.

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I will give them over to be an example of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

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Indeed, who will spare you, O Jerusalem? Or who will console you? Or who will turn aside to ask about your well -being?

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You who have abandoned me, declares Yahweh, you keep going backward. So I will stretch out my hand against you and bring you to ruin.

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I am tired of relenting. And I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land.

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I will bereave them of children. I will make my people perish. They did not repent of their ways.

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Their widows will be more numerous before me than the sand of the seas. I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man, a destroyer at noonday.

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I will suddenly bring down on her anguish and terror. She who bore seven sons languishes.

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Her breathing is labored. Her son has set while it was yet day. She has been shamed and humiliated.

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So I will give over their survivors to the sword before their enemies, declares Yahweh. Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, as a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land.

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I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me, yet everyone curses me.

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Yahweh said, Surely I will set you free for purposes of good. Surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with you in a time of disaster and a time of distress.

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Can anyone smash iron, iron from the north or bronze? Your wealth and your treasures

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I will give for plunder without cost, even for all your sins and within all your borders.

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Then I will cause your enemies to pass it over into a land you do not know. For a fire has been kindled in my anger.

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It will burn upon you. You who know, O Yahweh, remember me, take notice of me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors.

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Do not, in view of your patience, take me away. Know that for your sake I endure reproach.

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Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became for me joy and gladness in my heart.

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For I have been called by your name, O Yahweh, God of hosts. I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, nor did

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I exult. Because of your hand upon me I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.

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Why has my pain been perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?

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Therefore thus says Yahweh, if you return, then I will cause you to return.

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Before me you will stand, and if you extract the precious from the worthless, you will become my mouthpiece.

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They for their part may turn to you, but as for you, you must not turn to them. Then I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze, and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares

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Yahweh. So I will deliver you from the hand of the evil ones, and I will redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless ones.

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Mark 1. The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,

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Behold, I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way. The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

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Make ready the way of the Lord, make his path straight. John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

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And all the region of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem, and they were being baptized by him in the

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Jordan River, confessing their sins. And John was clothed with camel's hair, and wore a leather belt around his waist, and was eating locust and wild honey.

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And he was preaching, saying, After me one is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the strap of his sandals.

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I baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Now it happened that in those days

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Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And immediately coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opening, and the

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Spirit like a dove descending upon him. And a voice came out of the heavens, You are my beloved

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Son, in you I am well pleased. And immediately the Spirit drove him to go out into the wilderness.

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And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild beasts, and the angels were ministering to him.

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Now after John had been delivered up into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying,

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The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel.

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As he was going along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen.

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And Jesus said to them, Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men. And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

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And going on a little farther, he saw James a son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

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And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went away to follow him.

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And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and began to teach. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one having authority and not as the scribes.

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And immediately there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, saying,

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What do we have to do with you, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us?

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I know who you are, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying,

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Be quiet, and come out of him. And throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

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And they were all amazed, so that they were arguing among themselves, saying, What is this, a new teaching with authority?

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He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him. And immediately the news about him spread everywhere into all the surrounding district of Galilee.

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And immediately after they came out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

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Now Simon's mother -in -law was lying sick with a fever, and immediately they spoke to Jesus about her.

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And he came to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and she began waiting on them.

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Now an evening came after the sun had set, they began bringing to him all who were ill and those who were demon -possessed.

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And the whole city had gathered at the door. And he healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons.

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And he was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who he was. And in the early morning, while it was still dark,

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Jesus rose up, went out of the house, and went away to a desolate place, and was praying there.

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And Simon and his companions searched for him. And they found him, and said to him, Everyone is looking for you.

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And he said to them, Let us go elsewhere, to the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also, for that is what

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I came out for. And he went, preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and casting out the demons.

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And a leper came to Jesus, pleading with him, and falling on his knees before him, and saying, If you are willing, you can make me clean.

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And moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, I am willing, be cleansed.

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And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed. And he sternly warned him, and immediately sent him away.

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And he said to him, See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what

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Moses commanded as a testimony to them. But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in desolate areas, and they were coming to him from everywhere.