Formation Journal Reading Plan

11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

11:2 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel.”

11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven day, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”

11:4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

11:5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

11:6 The Spirit of God came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.

11:7 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

11:8 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

11:9 They said to the messengers who came, “Thus you shall tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”

11:11 It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

11:12 The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

11:13 Saul said, “There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.”

11:14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”

11:15 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

144:1 By David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

144:2 my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.

144:3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

144:4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

144:5 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

144:6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

144:7 Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;

144:8 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

144:9 I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.

144:10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

144:11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

144:12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

144:13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

144:14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

144:15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

4:27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

4:28 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

4:29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

4:31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

4:32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

4:33 The disciples therefore said one to another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

4:35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

4:36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

4:37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

4:38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”