Saturday

2 Samuel 5:22 - 6:11

[22]

And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread out in the valley of
Reph'aim.

[23] And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, "You shall not go up;
go around to their rear, and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.
[24] And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam
trees, then bestir yourself; for then the LORD has gone out before you to
smite the army of the Philistines."
[25] And David did as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines
from Geba to Gezer.
2Sam.6
[1]

David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

[2] And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from
Ba'ale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by
the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
[3] And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of
the house of Abin'adab which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahi'o, the
sons of Abin'adab, were driving the new cart
[4] with the ark of God; and Ahi'o went before the ark.
[5] And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the
LORD with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines
and castanets and cymbals.
[6]

And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand
to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

[7] And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him
there because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there beside
the ark of God.
[8] And David was angry because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah; and
that place is called Pe'rez-uz'zah, to this day.
[9] And David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How can the
ark of the LORD come to me?"
[10] So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of
David; but David took it aside to the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite.
[11] And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of O'bed-e'dom the
Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed O'bed-e'dom and all his
household.

Acts 17:16-34

[16]

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked
within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

[17] So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons,
and in the market place every day with those who chanced to be there.
[18] Some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers met him. And some
said, "What would this babbler say?" Others said, "He seems to be a
preacher of foreign divinities" -- because he preached Jesus and the
resurrection.
[19] And they took hold of him and brought him to the Are-op'agus, saying,
"May we know what this new teaching is which you present?
[20] For you bring some strange things to our ears; we wish to know
therefore what these things mean."
[21] Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their
time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
[22]

So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op'agus, said: "Men of Athens,
I perceive that in every way you are very religious.

[23] For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I
found also an altar with this inscription, `To an unknown god.' What
therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
[24] The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven
and earth, does not live in shrines made by man,
[25] nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since
he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything.
[26] And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of
the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their
habitation,
[27] that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him
and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us,
[28] for `In him we live and move and have our being';
as even some of your poets have said, `For we are indeed his offspring.'
[29]

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like
gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of
man.

[30] The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men
everywhere to repent,
[31] because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in
righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given
assurance to all men by raising him from the dead."
[32]

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but
others said, "We will hear you again about this."

[33] So Paul went out from among them.
[34] But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionys'ius the
Are-op'agite and a woman named Dam'aris and others with them.

Mark 8:1-10

[1]

In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing
to eat, he called his disciples to him, and said to them,

[2] "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now
three days, and have nothing to eat;
[3] and if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the
way; and some of them have come a long way."
[4] And his disciples answered him, "How can one feed these men with bread
here in the desert?"
[5] And he asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven."
[6] And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the
seven loaves, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to his
disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.
[7] And they had a few small fish; and having blessed them, he commanded
that these also should be set before them.
[8] And they ate, and were satisfied; and they took up the broken pieces
left over, seven baskets full.
[9] And there were about four thousand people.
[10] And he sent them away; and immediately he got into the boat with his
disciples, and went to the district of Dalmanu'tha.