Daily Readings for May 29

Daily Readings for May 29
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Joshua 15

1.The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south. 2.Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward; 3.and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka; 4.and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border. 5.The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan. 6.The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 7.The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel. 8.The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward. 9.The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim); 10.and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah; 11.and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. 12.The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.

13.To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron). 14.Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15.He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher. 16.Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife." 17.Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 18.It happened, when she came, that she had him ask her father fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, "What do you want?"

19.She said, "Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water."

He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

20.This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 21.The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, 22.Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, 23.Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, 24.Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, 25.Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (the same is Hazor), 26.Amam, Shema, Moladah, 27.Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, 28.Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, 29.Baalah, Iim, Ezem, 30.Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah, 31.Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, 32.Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages. 33.In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, 34.Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, 35.Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah, 36.Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages. 37.Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad, 38.Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, 39.Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, 40.Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, 41.Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages. 42.Libnah, Ether, Ashan, 43.Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, 44.Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages. 45.Ekron, with its towns and its villages; 46.from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages. 47.Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline. 48.In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, 49.Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir), 50.Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, 51.Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages. 52.Arab, Dumah, Eshan, 53.Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah, 54.Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages. 55.Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah, 56.Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, 57.Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. 58.Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, 59.Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages. 60.Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages. 61.In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah, 62.Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.

63.As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Isaiah 20

1.In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2.at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3.Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, 4.so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5.They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6.The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"

Isaiah 21

1.The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. 2.A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing. 3.Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see. 4.My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. 5.They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! 6.For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. 7.When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." 8.He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. 9.Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground. 10.You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

11.The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" 12.The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

13.The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. 14.They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. 15.For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. 16.For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, 17.and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

Philemon 1

1.Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker, 2.to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house: 3.Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4.I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, 5.hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints; 6.that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. 7.For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

8.Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate, 9.yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10.I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,¹ 11.who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me. 12.I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, 13.whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News. 14.But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will. 15.For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever, 16.no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

17.If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me. 18.But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account. 19.I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides). 20.Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord. 21.Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

22.Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

23.Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, 24.as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. 25.The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.