November 9th (Day 313) Bible Reading

Ezekiel 20:1-49
Hebrews 9:11-28
Psalm 107:1-43
Proverbs 27:11

 

Eze 20:1  And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me. 

Eze 20:2  Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 

Eze 20:3  Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you. 

Eze 20:4  Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers: 

Eze 20:5  And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; 

Eze 20:6  In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: 

Eze 20:7  Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 

Eze 20:8  But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 

Eze 20:9  But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. 

Eze 20:10  Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 

Eze 20:11  And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. 

Eze 20:12  Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 

Eze 20:13  But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 

Eze 20:14  But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. 

Eze 20:15  Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 

Eze 20:16  Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. 

Eze 20:17  Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. 

Eze 20:18  But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: 

Eze 20:19  I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; 

Eze 20:20  And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God. 

Eze 20:21  Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 

Eze 20:22  Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. 

Eze 20:23  I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 

Eze 20:24  Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. 

Eze 20:25  Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; 

Eze 20:26  And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD. 

Eze 20:27  Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 

Eze 20:28  For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings. 

Eze 20:29  Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. 

Eze 20:30  Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? 

Eze 20:31  For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you. 

Eze 20:32  And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. 

Eze 20:33  As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 

Eze 20:34  And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 

Eze 20:35  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 

Eze 20:36  Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. 

Eze 20:37  And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 

Eze 20:38  And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 

Eze 20:39  As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. 

Eze 20:40  For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. 

Eze 20:41  I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. 

Eze 20:42  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. 

Eze 20:43  And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. 

Eze 20:44  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. 

Eze 20:45  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 

Eze 20:46  Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 

Eze 20:47  And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 

Eze 20:48  And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. 

Eze 20:49  Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? 

 

Heb 9:11  But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 

Heb 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 

Heb 9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 

Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

Heb 9:15  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 

Heb 9:16  For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 

Heb 9:17  For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 

Heb 9:18  Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 

Heb 9:19  For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 

Heb 9:20  Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 

Heb 9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 

Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 

Heb 9:23  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 

Heb 9:24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 

Heb 9:25  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 

Heb 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 

Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 

Heb 9:28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 

 

Psa 107:1  O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

Psa 107:2  Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 

Psa 107:3  And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. 

Psa 107:4  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. 

Psa 107:5  Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 

Psa 107:6  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. 

Psa 107:7  And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. 

Psa 107:8  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 

Psa 107:9  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. 

Psa 107:10  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 

Psa 107:11  Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: 

Psa 107:12  Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. 

Psa 107:13  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 

Psa 107:14  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 

Psa 107:15  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 

Psa 107:16  For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. 

Psa 107:17  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 

Psa 107:18  Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 

Psa 107:19  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. 

Psa 107:20  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. 

Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 

Psa 107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. 

Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 

Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. 

Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 

Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. 

Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. 

Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 

Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. 

Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 

Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 

Psa 107:32  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. 

Psa 107:33  He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; 

Psa 107:34  A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 

Psa 107:35  He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. 

Psa 107:36  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 

Psa 107:37  And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. 

Psa 107:38  He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 

Psa 107:39  Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. 

Psa 107:40  He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way. 

Psa 107:41  Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. 

Psa 107:42  The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 

Psa 107:43  Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD. 

 

Pro 27:11  My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.