Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David, 2Verse 2. so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there. 3Verse 3. I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.” 4Verse 4. Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you. 5Verse 5. He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?” 6Verse 6. Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.” 7Verse 7. So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and David was with Saul as before.

13Verse 13. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me. 14Verse 14. Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. 15Verse 15. For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth. 16Verse 16. But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth. 17Verse 17. Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go. 18Verse 18. Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now. 19Verse 19. So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’” 20Verse 20. Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock to shelter, 21Verse 21. but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field. 22Verse 22. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt— on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.” 23Verse 23. So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt. 24Verse 24. The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation. 25Verse 25. Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree. 26Verse 26. The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived. 27Verse 27. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 28Verse 28. Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.” 29Verse 29. Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s. 30Verse 30. But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.” 31Verse 31. (Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom; 32Verse 32. but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.) 33Verse 33. Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land. 34Verse 34. When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart — he and his officials. 35Verse 35. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.