June 1 Bible Reading

June 1 MWC Bible Reading Steven Nicaud References:2 Samuel 5:1-6:23Psalm 68:20-27Proverbs 14:33-35John 9:8-27 2 Samuel 5:1-6:23David Becomes King Over IsraelAll the tribes of Israel&nbsp;came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.&nbsp;2&nbsp;In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns.&nbsp;And the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;said&nbsp;to you, ‘You will shepherd&nbsp;my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.&nbsp;’”3&nbsp;When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a compact&nbsp;with them at Hebron before the&nbsp;Lord,&nbsp;and they anointedDavid king over Israel.4&nbsp;David was thirty years old&nbsp;when he became king, and he reigned&nbsp;forty&nbsp;years.&nbsp;5&nbsp;In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months,&nbsp;and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.David Conquers Jerusalem6&nbsp;The king and his men marched to Jerusalem&nbsp;to attack the Jebusites,&nbsp;who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, “You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.” They thought, “David cannot get in here.”&nbsp;7&nbsp;Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion,&nbsp;the City of David.8&nbsp;On that day, David said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind’&nbsp;who are David’s enemies.” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.”9&nbsp;David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the supporting terraces inward.&nbsp;10&nbsp;And he became more and more powerful,&nbsp;because the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God Almighty&nbsp;was with him.11&nbsp;Now Hiram&nbsp;king of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs and carpenters and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.&nbsp;12&nbsp;And David knew that the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom&nbsp;for the sake of his people Israel.13&nbsp;After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives&nbsp;in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.&nbsp;14&nbsp;These are the names of the children born to him there:&nbsp;Shammua, Shobab, Nathan,&nbsp;Solomon,&nbsp;15&nbsp;Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,&nbsp;16&nbsp;Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.David Defeats the Philistines17&nbsp;When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.&nbsp;18&nbsp;Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim;&nbsp;19&nbsp;so David inquired&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Lord,&nbsp;“Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?”The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;answered him, “Go, for I will surely hand the Philistines over to you.”20&nbsp;So David went to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;has broken out against my enemies before me.” So that place was called Baal Perazim. 21&nbsp;The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off.22&nbsp;Once more the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim;&nbsp;23&nbsp;so David inquired of the&nbsp;Lord,&nbsp;and he answered, “Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.&nbsp;24&nbsp;As soon as you hear the sound&nbsp;of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because that will mean the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;has gone out in front&nbsp;of you to strike the Philistine army.”&nbsp;25&nbsp;So David did as the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines&nbsp;all the way from Gibeon to Gezer. 2 Samuel 6The Ark Brought to JerusalemDavid again brought together out of Israel chosen men, thirty thousand in all.&nbsp;2&nbsp;He and all his men set out from Baalah&nbsp;of Judah to bring up from there the ark&nbsp;of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;Almighty, who is enthroned&nbsp;between the cherubim&nbsp;that are on the ark.&nbsp;3&nbsp;They set the ark of God on a new cart&nbsp;and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill.&nbsp;Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart&nbsp;4&nbsp;with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was walking in front of it.&nbsp;5&nbsp;David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating&nbsp;with all their might before the&nbsp;Lord,&nbsp;with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals.6&nbsp;When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of&nbsp;the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.&nbsp;7&nbsp;The&nbsp;Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act;&nbsp;therefore God struck him down&nbsp;and he died there beside the ark of God.8&nbsp;Then David was angry because the&nbsp;Lord’s wrath&nbsp;had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah. 9&nbsp;David was afraid of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;that day and said, “How&nbsp;can the ark of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;ever come to me?”&nbsp;10&nbsp;He was not willing to take the ark of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-Edom&nbsp;the Gittite.&nbsp;11&nbsp;The ark of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;blessed him and his entire household.12&nbsp;Now King David&nbsp;was told, “The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God.” So David went down and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.&nbsp;13&nbsp;When those who were carrying the ark of the&nbsp;Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed&nbsp;a bull and a fattened calf.&nbsp;14&nbsp;David, wearing a linen ephod,&nbsp;danced&nbsp;before the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;with all his might,&nbsp;15&nbsp;while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;with shouts&nbsp;and the sound of trumpets.16&nbsp;As the ark of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;was entering the City of David,&nbsp;Michal&nbsp;daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the&nbsp;Lord,&nbsp;she despised him in her heart. 17&nbsp;They brought the ark of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it,&nbsp;and David sacrificed burnt offerings&nbsp;and fellowship offerings before the&nbsp;Lord.&nbsp;18&nbsp;After he had finished sacrificing&nbsp;the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed&nbsp;the people in the name of the&nbsp;Lord Almighty.&nbsp;19&nbsp;Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins&nbsp;to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.20&nbsp;When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, disrobing&nbsp;in the sight of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!” 21&nbsp;David said to Michal, “It was before the&nbsp;Lord,&nbsp;who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed&nbsp;me ruler&nbsp;over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the&nbsp;Lord.&nbsp;22&nbsp;I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”23&nbsp;And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.—————————Psalm 68:20-2720&nbsp;Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;comes escape from death.21&nbsp;Surely God will crush the heads&nbsp;of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.22&nbsp;The Lord says, “I will bring them from Bashan; I will bring them from the depths of the sea,&nbsp;23&nbsp;that you may plunge your feet in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs&nbsp;have their share.”24&nbsp;Your procession has come into view, O God, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.&nbsp;25&nbsp;In front are the singers,&nbsp;after them the musicians; with them are the maidens playing tambourines.&nbsp;26&nbsp;Praise God in the great congregation; praise the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;in the assembly of Israel.&nbsp;27&nbsp;There is the little tribe&nbsp;of Benjamin,&nbsp;leading them, there the great throng of Judah’s princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.—————————Proverbs 14:33-3533&nbsp;Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning and even among fools she lets herself be known.34&nbsp;Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.35&nbsp;A king delights in a wise servant, but a shameful servant incurs his wrath.—————————John 9:8-27His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”&nbsp;9&nbsp;Some claimed that he was. Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”10&nbsp;“How then were your eyes opened?” they demanded. 11&nbsp;He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.” 12&nbsp;“Where is this man?” they asked him. “I don’t know,” he said.The Pharisees Investigate the Healing13&nbsp;They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.&nbsp;14&nbsp;Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.&nbsp;15&nbsp;Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight.&nbsp;“He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”16&nbsp;Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”But others asked, “How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?”&nbsp;So they were divided. 17&nbsp;Finally they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” The man replied, “He is a prophet.” 18&nbsp;The Jews&nbsp;still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents.&nbsp;19&nbsp;“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”20&nbsp;“We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind.&nbsp;21&nbsp;But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”&nbsp;22&nbsp;His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews,&nbsp;for already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be put out&nbsp;of the synagogue.&nbsp;23&nbsp;That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”24&nbsp;A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God,”&nbsp;they said. “We know this man is a sinner.” 25&nbsp;He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!” 26&nbsp;Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”27&nbsp;He answered, “I have told you already&nbsp;and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? 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