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Daily Devotional 1 Year Bible

1SA_7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.

1SA_7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Bethcar.

1SA_7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

1SA_7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

1SA_7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

1SA_7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

1SA_7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

1SA_7:17 And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

1SA_8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

1SA_8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beersheba.

1SA_8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1SA_8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

1SA_8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

1SA_8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

1SA_8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

1SA_8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

1SA_8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

1SA_8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

1SA_8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] shall run before his chariots.

1SA_8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

1SA_8:13 And he will take your daughters [to be] confectionaries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.

1SA_8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants.

1SA_8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

1SA_8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.

1SA_8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

1SA_8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

1SA_8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

1SA_8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

1SA_8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.

1SA_8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

1SA_9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name [was] Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

1SA_9:2 And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the people.

1SA_9:3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

1SA_9:4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found [them] not.

1SA_9:5 [And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.

1SA_9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now, [there is] in this city a man of God, and [he is] an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can show us our way that we should go.

1SA_9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, [if] we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and [there is] not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?

1SA_9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.

1SA_9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

1SA_9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God [was].

1SA_9:11 [And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?

1SA_9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is] a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:

1SA_9:13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.

1SA_9:14 And they went up into the city: [and] when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.

1SA_9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

1SA_9:16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

1SA_9:17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.

1SA_9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house [is].

1SA_9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in thine heart.

1SA_9:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is it] not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

1SA_9:21 And Saul answered and said, [Am] not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

1SA_9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which [were] about thirty persons.

1SA_9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.

LUK_24:13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem [about] threescore furlongs.

LUK_24:14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

LUK_24:15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

LUK_24:16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

LUK_24:17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications [are] these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?

LUK_24:18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

LUK_24:19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:

LUK_24:20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

LUK_24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.

LUK_24:22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;

LUK_24:23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.

LUK_24:24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found [it] even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.

LUK_24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

LUK_24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

LUK_24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

LUK_24:28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.

LUK_24:29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

LUK_24:30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed [it], and brake, and gave to them.

LUK_24:31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

LUK_24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

LUK_24:33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,

LUK_24:34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

PSA_58:4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

PSA_58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

PSA_58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

PSA_58:7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

PSA_58:8 As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.

PSA_58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

PRO_12:26 The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

PRO_12:27 The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious.

MARJ_7:9 Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

MARJ_7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

MARJ_7:11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free].

MARJ_7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

MARJ_7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.