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M'Cheyne Daily Bible Reading














일정시작 : 2012-09-22 (토) 
일정종료 : 2022-09-22 (목) 

2 Samuel 18, 2 Corinthians 11, Ezekiel 25, Psalm 73

 

2 Samuel 18,

1 David mustered the men who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
 
2 David sent the troops out-a third under the command of Joab, a third under Joab's brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king told the troops, "I myself will surely march out with you."
 
3 But the men said, "You must not go out; if we are forced to flee, they won't care about us. Even if half of us die, they won't care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It would be better now for you to give us support from the city."
 
4 The king answered, "I will do whatever seems best to you." So the king stood beside the gate while all the men marched out in units of hundreds and of thousands.
 
5 The king commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, "Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake." And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders.
 
6 The army marched into the field to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
 
7 There the army of Israel was defeated by David's men, and the casualties that day were great-twenty thousand men.
 
8 The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest claimed more lives that day than the sword.
 
9 Now Absalom happened to meet David's men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom's head got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.
 
10 When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, "I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree."
 
11 Joab said to the man who had told him this, "What! You saw him? Why didn't you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had to give you ten shekels of silver and a warrior's belt."
 
12 But the man replied, "Even if a thousand shekels were weighed out into my hands, I would not lift my hand against the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.'
 
13 And if I had put my life in jeopardy-and nothing is hidden from the king-you would have kept your distance from me."
 
14 Joab said, "I'm not going to wait like this for you." So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom's heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.
 
15 And ten of Joab's armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.
 
16 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
 
17 They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
 
18 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, "I have no son to carry on the memory of my name." He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
 
19 Now Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, "Let me run and take the news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
 
20 "You are not the one to take the news today," Joab told him. "You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king's son is dead."
 
21 Then Joab said to a Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed down before Joab and ran off.
 
22 Ahimaaz son of Zadok again said to Joab, "Come what may, please let me run behind the Cushite." But Joab replied, "My son, why do you want to go? You don't have any news that will bring you a reward."
 
23 He said, "Come what may, I want to run." So Joab said, "Run!" Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.
 
24 While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.
 
25 The watchman called out to the king and reported it. The king said, "If he is alone, he must have good news." And the man came closer and closer.
 
26 Then the watchman saw another man running, and he called down to the gatekeeper, "Look, another man running alone!" The king said, "He must be bringing good news, too."
 
27 The watchman said, "It seems to me that the first one runs like Ahimaaz son of Zadok." "He's a good man," the king said. "He comes with good news."
 
28 Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, "All is well!" He bowed down before the king with his face to the ground and said, "Praise be to the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who lifted their hands against my lord the king."
 
29 The king asked, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" Ahimaaz answered, "I saw great confusion just as Joab was about to send the king's servant and me, your servant, but I don't know what it was."
 
30 The king said, "Stand aside and wait here." So he stepped aside and stood there.
 
31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, "My lord the king, hear the good news! The LORD has delivered you today from all who rose up against you."
 
32 The king asked the Cushite, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" The Cushite replied, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up to harm you be like that young man."
 
33 The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you-O Absalom, my son, my son!"
 

    

 

 

2 Corinthians 11,

1 I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that.
 
2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.
 
3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
 
4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
 
5 But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles."
 
6 I may not be a trained speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.
 
7 Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?
 
8 I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you.
 
9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
 
10 As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine.
 
11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
 
12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.
 
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
 
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
 
15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
 
16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.
 
17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
 
18 Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast.
 
19 You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!
 
20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or pushes himself forward or slaps you in the face.
 
21 To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that! What anyone else dares to boast about-I am speaking as a fool-I also dare to boast about.
 
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's descendants? So am I.
 
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.
 
24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
 
25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea,
 
26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers.
 
27 I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
 
28 Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
 
29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?
 
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
 
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.
 
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.
 
33 But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.
 

    

 


Ezekiel 25,

1 The word of the LORD came to me:
 
2 "Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
 
3 Say to them, 'Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you said "Aha!" over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile,
 
4 therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
 
5 I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
 
6 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel,
 
7 therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.' "
 
8 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because Moab and Seir said, "Look, the house of Judah has become like all the other nations,"
 
9 therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns-Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim-the glory of that land.
 
10 I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations;
 
11 and I will inflict punishment on Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD.' "
 
12 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because Edom took revenge on the house of Judah and became very guilty by doing so,
 
13 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill its men and their animals. I will lay it waste, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
 
14 I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign LORD.' "
 
15 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah,
 
16 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast.
 
17 I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them.' "
 

    

 

 

Psalm 73

1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
 
2 But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold.
 
3 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
 
4 They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.
 
5 They are free from the burdens common to man; they are not plagued by human ills.
 
6 Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.
 
7 From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their minds know no limits.
 
8 They scoff, and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression.
 
9 Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.
 
10 Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.
 
11 They say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"
 
12 This is what the wicked are like-always carefree, they increase in wealth.
 
13 Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure; in vain have I washed my hands in innocence.
 
14 All day long I have been plagued; I have been punished every morning.
 
15 If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed your children.
 
16 When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me
 
17 till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.
 
18 Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin.
 
19 How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!
 
20 As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.
 
21 When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,
 
22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.
 
23 Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.
 
24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.
 
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
 
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
 
27 Those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.
 
28 But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.
 

    

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