Monday in Season after Pentecost

15Verse 15. After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. 16Verse 16. David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground. 17Verse 17. The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them. 18Verse 18. On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.” 19Verse 19. When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied. 20Verse 20. Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate. 21Verse 21. “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.” 22Verse 22. David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’ 23Verse 23. But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.” 24Verse 24. Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child 25Verse 25. and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

16Verse 16. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you. 17Verse 17. And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself. 18Verse 18. And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat. 19Verse 19. You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days, 20Verse 20. but for a whole month— until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous— because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’” 21Verse 21. But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’ 22Verse 22. If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” 23Verse 23. The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.” 31Verse 31. Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp. 32Verse 32. All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.