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Daily Readings for June 1
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Joshua 18
1.The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them. 2.Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance. 3.Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you? 4.Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me. 5.They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north. 6.You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God. 7.For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."
8.The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, "Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh."
9.The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. 10.Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
11.The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. 12.Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven. 13.The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower. 14.The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter. 15.The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. 16.The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel. 17.It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 18.It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah. 19.The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border. 20.The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families. 21.Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz, 22.Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, 23.Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, 24.Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages. 25.Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, 26.Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, 27.Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, 28.Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Isaiah 24
1.Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. 2.It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. 3.The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. 4.The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. 5.The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6.Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7.The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8.The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 9.They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. 10.The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11.There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. 12.The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. 13.For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. 14.These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea. 15.Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! 16.From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. 17.Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth. 18.It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 19.The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. 20.The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again. 21.It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. 22.They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited. 23.Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.
Hebrews 6
1.Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, 2.of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3.This will we do, if God permits. 4.For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5.and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6.and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. 7.For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; 8.but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
9.But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. 10.For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. 11.We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, 12.that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. 13.For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, 14.saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."21 15.Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16.For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 17.In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18.that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. 19.This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; 20.where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7
1.For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2.to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace; 3.without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually. 4.Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. 5.They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham, 6.but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. 7.But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. 8.Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. 9.We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, 10.for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him. 11.Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12.For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law. 13.For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. 14.For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15.This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, 16.who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life: 17.for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."22
18.For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness 19.(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. 20.Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath 21.(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'"23
22.By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant. 23.Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. 24.But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. 25.Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
26.For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27.who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. 28.For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.