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Daily Readings for June 2
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Joshua 19
1.The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. 2.They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, 3.Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, 4.Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, 5.Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, 6.Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages; 7.Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages; 8.and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. 9.Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
10.The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid. 11.Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam. 12.It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia. 13.From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah. 14.The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El; 15.Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages. 16.This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
17.The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families. 18.Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, 19.Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, 20.Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, 21.Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez. 22.The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. 23.This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
24.The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. 25.Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph, 26.Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath. 27.It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand, 28.and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon. 29.The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib; 30.Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages. 31.This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
32.The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. 33.Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan. 34.The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise. 35.The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth, 36.Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, 37.Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, 38.Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. 39.This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
40.The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. 41.The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh, 42.Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, 43.Elon, Timnah, Ekron, 44.Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, 45.Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, 46.Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. 47.The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. 48.This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
49.So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in their midst. 50.According to the commandment of Yahweh, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there. 51.These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.
Isaiah 25
1.Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. 2.For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. 3.Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you. 4.For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. 5.As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low. 6.In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. 7.He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8.He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it. 9.It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" 10.For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest.
Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. 11.He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands. 12.He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Hebrews 8
1.Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2.a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 3.For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. 4.For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; 5.who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."24 6.But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law. 7.For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8.For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9.not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them," says the Lord. 10."For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11.They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,25 and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from their least to their greatest. 12.For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."26
13.In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Hebrews 9
1.Now indeed even the first27 covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. 2.For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. 3.After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, 4.having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; 5.and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't speak now in detail. 6.Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, 7.but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. 8.The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; 9.which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; 10.being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
11.But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 12.nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13.For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: 14.how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15.For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16.For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. 17.For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. 18.Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. 19.For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20.saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."28
21.Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. 22.According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. 23.It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24.For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25.nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, 26.or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27.Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, 28.so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many,29 will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.