Through-the-bible reading plan (365 days) | American king james version

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And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

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And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelled in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

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And the children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

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And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

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And she dwelled under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said to him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

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And I will draw to you to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.

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And Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go: but if you will not go with me, then I will not go.

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And she said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

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Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent to the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

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And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

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And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles to the river of Kishon.

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And Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand: is not the LORD gone out before you? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

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And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

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But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell on the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

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However, Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

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And he said to her, Give me, I pray you, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

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Again he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you shall say, No.

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Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

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And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

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So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

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And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

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Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

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Praise you the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

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Hear, O you kings; give ear, O you princes; I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

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LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

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The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

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In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways.

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The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

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They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless you the LORD.

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Speak, you that ride on white asses, you that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

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They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

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Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead your captivity captive, you son of Abinoam.

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Then he made him that remains have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.

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Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

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And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.

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Why stayed you among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

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Gilead stayed beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and stayed in his breaches.

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Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that risked their lives to the death in the high places of the field.

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The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

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They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

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The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you have trodden down strength.

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Then were the horse hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.

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Curse you Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse you bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

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Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

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He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

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She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

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At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

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The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

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Her wise ladies answered her, yes, she returned answer to herself,

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Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

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So let all your enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

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To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

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I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

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My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,

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LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

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Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

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And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.

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Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.

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Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

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When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

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He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.

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And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

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Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

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Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

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Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

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Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

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I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.

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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.

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I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.

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Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

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For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

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Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

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Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

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Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, Aha, aha.

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Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

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But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

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The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed on the earth: and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

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The LORD will strengthen him on the bed of languishing: you will make all his bed in his sickness.

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I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

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My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

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And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.

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All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

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An evil disease, say they, sticks fast to him: and now that he lies he shall rise up no more.

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Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

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But you, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

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By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

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And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face for ever.

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Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.

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Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs not itself, is not puffed up,

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Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

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Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

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Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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