Formation Journal Reading Plan

10:1 It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

10:2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

10:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

10:4 So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

10:5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

10:6 When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.

10:7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

10:8 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

10:9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:

10:10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.

10:11 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

10:12 Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”

10:13 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

10:14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

10:15 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.

10:16 Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

10:17 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

10:18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians seven hundred charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.

10:19 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

6:20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

6:21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

6:22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

6:24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

6:25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

6:26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

6:30 Men don’t despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

6:31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

6:34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

6:35 He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

10:1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

10:2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

10:3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

10:4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

10:5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

10:6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

10:7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

10:8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

10:12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

10:13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

10:15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

10:16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

10:19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

10:20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

10:21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”