The Bible Reading Plan

1. Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

2. When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

3. They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

4. “Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

5. He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.

6. King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

7. They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

8. But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

9. He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

10. The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

11. Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

12. So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

13. The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,

14. and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

15. So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

16. When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

17. But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

18. Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

19. So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.

1. When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

2. But Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

3. “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

4. ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me.”’” So they listened to Yahweh’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

5. Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

6. He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

7. Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam,

8. Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

9. Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

10. Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

11. He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.

12. He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

13. The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory.

14. For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.

15. He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

16. After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

17. So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

18. Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.

19. She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

20. After her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

21. Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

22. Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.

23. He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.

1. “‘“Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around.

2. Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around.

3. Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

4. It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

5. Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms.

6. “‘“You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

7. “‘“What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

8. In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

9. “‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

10. “You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

11. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.

12. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

13. “‘“This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

14. and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)

15. and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

16. “All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

17. It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

18. “‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.

19. The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20. So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.

21. “‘“In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22. On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

23. The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

24. He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

25. “‘“In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he shall do like like that for seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.”

1. Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

2. So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

3. Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

4. Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,

5. “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”

6. Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

7. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

8. For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

9. A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

10. But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

11. because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

12. On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13. they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

14. Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,

15. “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

16. His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

17. The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.

18. For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

19. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

20. Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

21. These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

22. Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

23. Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

24. Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

25. He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

26. If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

27. “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.

28. Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

29. The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

30. Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.

31. Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

32. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

33. But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

34. The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

35. Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

36. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

37. But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

38. that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

39. For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,

40. “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

41. Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

42. Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

43. for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

44. Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

45. He who sees me sees him who sent me.

46. I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

47. If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

48. He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

49. For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

50. I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”