Daily Readings for May 31

Daily Readings for May 31
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Joshua 17

1.This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. 2.So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families. 3.But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 4.They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. 5.Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan; 6.because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh. 7.The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. 8.The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim. 9.The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea. 10.Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east. 11.Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns. 12.Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

13.It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out. 14.The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?"

15.Joshua said to them, "If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you."

16.The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel."

17.Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only; 18.but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."

Isaiah 23

1.The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. 2.Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3.On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations. 4.Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins." 5.When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre. 6.Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! 7.Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel? 8.Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9.Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. 10.Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more. 11.He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds. 12.He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest."

13.Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin. 14.Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! 15.It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute. 16.Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered. 17.It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth. 18.Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Hebrews 3

1.Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; 2.who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. 3.For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house. 4.For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. 5.Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, 6.but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. 7.Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, 8.don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, 9.where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years. 10.Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;' 11.as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"¹³

12.Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 13.but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14.For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: 15.while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."¹⁴

16.For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses? 17.With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18.To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19.We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4

1.Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. 2.For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard. 3.For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;"¹⁵ although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4.For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"¹⁶ 5.and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."¹⁷

6.Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience, 7.he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."¹⁸

8.For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. 9.There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10.For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 11.Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. 12.For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

13.There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14.Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. 15.For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16.Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Hebrews 5

1.For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2.The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness. 3.Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself. 4.Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was. 5.So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."¹⁹

6.As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."²⁰

7.He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, 8.though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. 9.Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation, 10.named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. 11.About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. 12.For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 13.For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 14.But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.