Formation Journal Reading Plan

7:1 It happened, when the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,

7:2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.”

7:3 Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”

7:4 It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

7:5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?

7:6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

7:7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’

7:8 Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel.

7:9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

7:10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,

7:11 and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

7:12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

7:13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

7:15 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

7:16 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.”’”

7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

7:18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

7:19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh!

7:20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

7:21 For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

7:22 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

7:23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

7:24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

7:25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

7:26 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.’

7:27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

7:28 “Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

7:29 Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”

5:15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

5:18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

5:19 A loving doe and a graceful deer—let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

5:20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

5:22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

5:23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

9:13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

9:14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

9:15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”

9:16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

9:17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

9:18 The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

9:19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

9:20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

9:21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

9:22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

9:23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

9:24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

9:25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

9:26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

9:27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”

9:28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

9:30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

9:31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

9:32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

9:33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

9:34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.