Bible in a Year.

On the 140th, we celebrate God's faithfulness and protection. 2 Samuel 22 presents David's song of praise, extolling the Lord for His salvation and righteousness. 1 Chronicles 27 details the administration of the kingdom's divisions, demonstrating order and leadership. Psalm 41 reminds us of God's care for the righteous and the importance of trusting Him in all circumstances.

1. And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

2. And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.

3. God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

4. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

5. For the pangs of death have sur rounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

6. The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

7. In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come to his ears.

8. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.

9. A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.

10. He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

11. And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind.

12. He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

13. By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.

14. The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give forth his voice.

15. He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.

16. And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.

17. He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.

18. He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

19. He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my stay.

20. And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me, because I pleased him.

21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.

22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.

24. And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

25. And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

26. With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

27. With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

28. And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.

29. For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.

30. For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.

31. God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.

32. Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?

33. God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.

34. Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my high places.

35. He teacheth my bands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of brass.

36. Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.

37. Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.

38. I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not return again till I consume them.

39. I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet.

40. Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.

41. My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.

42. They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.

43. I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.

44. Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not, shall serve me,

45. The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will obey me.

46. The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.

47. The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted:

48. God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,

49. Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.

50. Therefore will I give thanks to thee. O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.

51. Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.

1. Now the children of Israel according to their number, the heads of families, captains of thousands and of hundreds, and officers, that served the king according to their companies, who came in and went out every month in the year, under every chief were four and twenty thousand.

2. Over the first company the first month Jesboam, the son of Zabdiel was chief, and under him were four and twenty thousand.

3. Of the sons of Phares, the chief of all the captains in the host in the first month.

4. The company of the second month was under Dudia, an Ahohite, and after him was another named Macelloth, who commanded a part of the army of four and twenty thousand.

5. And the captain of the third company for the third month, was Banaias the son of Joiada the priest: and in his division were four and twenty thousand.

6. This is that Banaias the most valiant among the thirty, and above the thirty. And Amizabad his son commanded his company.

7. The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zabadias his son after him: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.

8. The fifth captain for the fifth month, was Samaoth a Jezerite: and his company were four and twenty thousand.

9. The sixth, for the sixth month, was Hira the son of Acces a Thecuite: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.

10. The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helles a Phallonite of the sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.

11. The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sobochai a Husathite of the race of Zarahi: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.

12. The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer an Anathothite of the sons of Jemini, and in His company were four and twenty thousand.

13. The tenth, for the tenth month, was Marai, who was a Netophathite of the race of Zarai: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.

14. The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Banaias, a Pharathonite of the sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.

15. The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Holdai a Netophathite, of the race of Gothoniel: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.

16. Now the chiefs over the tribes of Israel were these: over the Rubenites, Eliezer the son of Zechri was ruler: over the Simeonites, Saphatias the son of Maacha :

17. Over the Levites, Hasabias the son of Camuel: over the Aaronites, Sadoc:

18. Over Juda, Eliu the brother of David: over Issachar, Amri the son of Michael:

19. Over the Zabulonites, Jesmaias the son of Adias : over the Nephtalites, Jerimoth the son of Ozriel:

20. Over the sons of Ephraim, Osee the: son of Ozaziu: over the half tribe of Manasses, Joel the son of Phadaia:

21. And over the half tribe of Manasses: in Galaad, Jaddo the son of Zacharias: and over Benjamin, Jasiel the son of Abner.

22. And over Dan, Ezrihel the son of Jeroham: these were the princes of the children of Israel.

23. But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.

24. Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not: because upon this there fell wrath upon Israel: and therefore the number of them that were numbered, was not registered in the chronicles of king David.

25. And over the king's treasures was Azmoth the son of Adiel: and over those stores which were in the cities, and is the villages, and in the castles, was Jonathan the son of Ozias.

26. And over the tillage, and the husbandmen, who tilled the ground, was Ezri the son of Chelub:

27. And over the dressers of the vineyards, was Semeias a Romathite: and over the wine cellars, Zabdias an Aphonite.

28. And over the oliveyards and the fig groves, which were in the plains, was Balanam a Gederite: and over the oil cellars, Joas.

29. And over the herds that fed in Saron, was Setrai a Saronite: and over the. oxen in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adli:

30. And over the camels, Ubil an Ishmahelite: and over the asses, Jadias a Meronathite:

31. And over the sheep Jazia an Agarene. All these were the rulers of the substance of king David.

32. And Jonathan David's uncle, a counsellor, a wise and learned man: he and Jahiel the son of Hachamoni were with the king's sons.

33. And Achitophel was the king's counsellor, and Chusai the Arachite, the king's friend.

34. And after Achitophel was Joiada the son of Banaias, and Abiathar. And the general of the king's army was Joab.

1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

2. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor : the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

3. The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth : and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

4. The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow : thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.

5. I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me : heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

6. My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

7. And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things : his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

8. All my enemies whispered together against me : they devised evils to me.

9. They determined against me an unjust word : shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?

10. For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.

11. But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again : and I will requite them.

12. By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me : because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.

13. But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence : and hast established me in thy sight for ever.

14. Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.