Tuesday, November 14, 2023
1 Chronicles 19:1–9
1In the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites
died, and his son succeeded him as king. 2David thought, "I
will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness
to me." So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun
concerning his father.
When David's men
came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him, 3the
Ammonite nobles said to Hanun, "Do you think David is honoring your father
by sending men to you to express sympathy? Haven't his men come to you to
explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?" 4So Hanun
seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the
buttocks, and sent them away.
5When someone came and told David about the men, he
sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said,
"Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back."
6When the Ammonites realized that they had become a
stench in David's nostrils, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of
silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah and
Zobah. 7They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and charioteers, as
well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba,
while the Ammonites were mustered from their towns and moved out for battle.
8On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire
army of fighting men. 9The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle
formation at the entrance to their city, while the kings who had come were by
themselves in the open country.
Psalm
119:57–64
57You are my
portion, O LORD; I have promised to obey your words. 58I have sought
your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise. 59I
have considered my ways and have turned my steps to your statutes. 60I
will hasten and not delay to obey your commands. 61Though the wicked
bind me with ropes, I will not forget your law. 62At midnight I rise
to give you thanks for your righteous laws. 63I am a friend to all
who fear you, to all who follow your precepts. 64The earth is filled
with your love, O LORD; teach me your decrees.
1
Corinthians 2
1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with
eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2For
I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him
crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much
trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and
persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so
that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the
mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are
coming to nothing. 7No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom
that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8None
of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory. 9However, as it is written:
"No eye has
seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those
who love him"—
10but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches
all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows
the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no
one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have
not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we
may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we
speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the
Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14The man
without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they
are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man makes judgments about
all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
16"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he
may instruct him?"
But we have the mind
of Christ.
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