Formation Journal Reading Plan

5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

5:2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”

5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

5:6 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “Unless you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here;” thinking, “David can’t come in here.”

5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

5:8 David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and strike the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”

5:9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward.

5:10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.

5:11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

5:12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.

5:13 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

5:14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

5:15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

5:16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.

5:17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.

5:18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

5:19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

5:20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

5:21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

5:22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

5:23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them over against the mulberry trees.

5:24 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

5:25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.

6:1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

6:2 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above the cherubim.

6:3 They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

6:4 They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.

6:5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

6:6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.

6:7 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

6:8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.

6:9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?”

6:10 So David would not move the ark of Yahweh to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

6:11 The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, and all his house.

6:12 It was told king David, saying, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God.” David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy.

6:13 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

6:14 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

6:16 It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

6:17 They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

6:18 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

6:19 He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house.

6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

6:21 David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore will I celebrate before Yahweh.

6:22 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight. But of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall honor me.”

6:23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

5:2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

5:4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

5:5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

5:6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

5:7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

5:8 Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

5:9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

5:10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

5:11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

5:12 and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

5:13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

5:14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly.”

9:1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

9:2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

9:3 Jesus answered, “Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

9:4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

9:5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

9:6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

9:7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

9:8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

9:9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”

9:10 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

9:11 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

9:12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”