The Bible Reading Plan

Genesis Chapter 22

¹It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." ²He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of." ³Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

⁴On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

⁵Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you." ⁶Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.

⁷Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" ⁸Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.

⁹They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

¹⁰Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

¹¹The angel of ForeverOne called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." ¹²He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." ¹³Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

¹⁴Abraham called the name of that place ForeverOne Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On ForeverOne's mountain, it will be provided." ¹⁵The angel of ForeverOne called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, ¹⁶and said, "I have sworn by myself, says ForeverOne, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, ¹⁷that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

¹⁸In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice." ¹⁹So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Judges Chapter 6

¹²The angel of ForeverOne appeared to him, and said to him, "ForeverOne is with you, you mighty man of valor!" ¹³Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if ForeverOne is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't ForeverOne bring us up from Egypt?' But now ForeverOne has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian." ¹⁴ForeverOne looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven't I sent you?" ¹⁵He said to him, "O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." ¹⁶ForeverOne said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man." ¹⁷He said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

¹⁸Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you." He said, "I will wait until you come back." ¹⁹Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

²⁰The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." He did so.

²¹Then the angel of ForeverOne stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of ForeverOne departed out of his sight.

²²Gideon saw that he was the angel of ForeverOne; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord ForeverOne! Because I have seen the angel of ForeverOne face to face!" ²³ForeverOne said to him, "Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die." ²⁴Then Gideon built an altar there to ForeverOne, and called it "ForeverOne is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

²⁵It happened the same night, that ForeverOne said to him, "Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it; ²⁶and build an altar to ForeverOne your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down." ²⁷Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as ForeverOne had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

²⁸When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.

²⁹They said one to another, "Who has done this thing?" When they inquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing." ³⁰Then the men of the city said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it." ³¹Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death while [it is yet] morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar." ³²Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, "Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar." ³³Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

³⁴But the Spirit of ForeverOne came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.

³⁵He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

³⁶Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken, ³⁷behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken."

1 Chronicles Chapter 16

³⁰Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can't be moved.

³¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations, "ForeverOne reigns!" ³²Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is therein!

³³Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before ForeverOne, for he comes to judge the earth.

³⁴Oh give thanks to ForeverOne, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

³⁵Say, "Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise." ³⁶Blessed be ForeverOne, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, "Amen," and praised ForeverOne.

³⁷So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of ForeverOne, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required; ³⁸and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers; ³⁹and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of ForeverOne in the high place that was at Gibeon, ⁴⁰to offer burnt offerings to ForeverOne on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of ForeverOne, which he commanded to Israel; ⁴¹and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to ForeverOne, because his loving kindness endures forever; ⁴²and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

⁴³All the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

1 Chronicles Chapter 17

¹It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of ForeverOne is under curtains." ²Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you." ³It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, ⁴"Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says ForeverOne, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in; ⁵for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.

⁶In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

Matthew Chapter 21

¹When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, ²saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

³If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them." ⁴All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, ⁵"Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." ⁶The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them, ⁷and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.

⁸A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

⁹The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" ¹⁰When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" ¹¹The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee." ¹²Jesus entered into the temple of God and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

¹³He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!" ¹⁴The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

¹⁵But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant, ¹⁶and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of children and nursing babies, you have perfected praise?'" ¹⁷He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.