The One Year Bible KJV (104 page)

Luke 15:1-32

1
 Then drew near unto him [Jesus] all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
2
 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

3
 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
4
 
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
5
 
And when he hath found
it,
he layeth
it
on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6
 
And when he cometh home, he calleth together
his
friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
7
 
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

8
 
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find
it?
9
 
And when she hath found
it,
she calleth
her
friends and
her
neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
10
 
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

11
 And he said,
A certain man had two sons:
12
 
and the younger of them said to
his
father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth
to me.
And he divided unto them
his
living.

13
 
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
14
 
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15
 
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16
 
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

17
 
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18
 
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19
 
and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

20
 
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21
 
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

22
 
But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put
it
on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on
his
feet:
23
 
and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill
it;
and let us eat, and be merry:
24
 
for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

25
 
Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
26
 
And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
27
 
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

28
 
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
29
 
And he answering said to
his
father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30
 
but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

31
 
And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
32
 
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Psalm 81:1-16

To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm
of Asaph.

1
 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

2
 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

3
 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

4
 For this
was
a statute for Israel,
and
a law of the God of Jacob.

5
 This he ordained in Joseph
for
a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt:
where
I heard a language
that
I understood not.

6
 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

7
 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

8
 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

9
 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

10
 I
am
the L
ORD
thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11
 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

12
 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:
and
they walked in their own counsels.

13
 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,
and
Israel had walked in my ways!

14
 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

15
 The haters of the L
ORD
should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

16
 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Proverbs 13:1

1
 A wise son
heareth
his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

April 13

Joshua 7:16–9:2

Luke 16:1-18

Psalm 82:1-8

Proverbs 13:2-3

Joshua 7:16–9:2

16
 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
17
 and he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
18
 and he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

19
 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the L
ORD
God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide
it
not from me.

20
 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the L
ORD
God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
21
 when I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they
are
hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

22
 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold,
it was
hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
23
 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the L
ORD
.
24
 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
25
 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the L
ORD
shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

26
 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the L
ORD
turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

8:
1
 And the L
ORD
said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
2
 and thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

3
 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
4
 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city,
even
behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
5
 and I, and all the people that
are
with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
6
 (for they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
7
 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the L
ORD
your God will deliver it into your hand.
8
 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city,
that
ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the L
ORD
shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

9
 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10
 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11
 And all the people,
even the people
of war that
were
with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now
there was
a valley between them and Ai.
12
 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13
 And when they had set the people,
even
all the host that
was
on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

14
 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw
it,
that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that
there were
liers in ambush against him behind the city.
15
 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16
 And all the people that
were
in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17
 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

18
 And the L
ORD
said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that
is
in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that
he had
in his hand toward the city.
19
 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
20
 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

21
 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
22
 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23
 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

24
 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25
 And
so
it was,
that
all that fell that day, both of men and women,
were
twelve thousand,
even
all the men of Ai.
26
 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27
 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the L
ORD
which he commanded Joshua.
28
 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever,
even
a desolation unto this day.
29
 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones,
that remaineth
unto this day.

30
 Then Joshua built an altar unto the L
ORD
God of Israel in mount Ebal,
31
 as Moses the servant of the L
ORD
commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up
any
iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the L
ORD
, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32
 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33
 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the L
ORD
, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the L
ORD
had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34
 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35
 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

9:
1
 And it came to pass, when all the kings which
were
on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard
thereof;
2
 that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.