Daily Readings - 07/02/2026

^3:4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, since that was the greatest of the high places – Solomon offered a thousand holocausts on that altar.

^3:5 At Gibeon Yahweh appeared in a dream to Solomon during the night. God said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give you’.

^3:6 Solomon replied, ‘You showed great kindness to your servant David, my father, when he lived his life before you in faithfulness and justice and integrity of heart; you have continued this great kindness to him by allowing a son of his to sit on his throne today.

^3:7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership.

^3:8 Your servant finds himself in the midst of this people of yours that you have chosen, a people so many its number cannot be counted or reckoned.

^3:9 Give your servant a heart to understand how to discern between good and evil, for who could govern this people of yours that is so great?’

^3:10 It pleased Yahweh that Solomon should have asked for this.

^3:11 ‘Since you have asked for this’ Yahweh said ‘and not asked for long life for yourself or riches or the lives of your enemies, but have asked for a discerning judgement for yourself,

^3:12 here and now I do what you ask. I give you a heart wise and shrewd as none before you has had and none will have after you.

^3:13 What you have not asked I shall give you too: such riches and glory as no other king ever had.

^118:1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, his love is everlasting!

^118:2 Let the House of Israel say it, ‘His love is everlasting!’

^118:3 Let the House of Aaron say it, ‘His love is everlasting!’

^118:4 Let those who fear Yahweh say it, ‘His love is everlasting!’

^118:5 Hard-pressed, I invoked Yahweh, he heard me and came to my relief.

^118:6 With Yahweh on my side, I fear nothing: what can man do to me?

^118:7 With Yahweh on my side, best help of all, I can triumph over my enemies.

^118:8 I would rather take refuge in Yahweh than rely on men;

^118:9 I would rather take refuge in Yahweh than rely on princes.

^118:10 The pagans were swarming round me, in the name of Yahweh I cut them down;

^118:11 they swarmed round me closer and closer, in the name of Yahweh I cut them down;

^118:12 they swarmed round me like bees, they blazed like a thorn-fire, in the name of Yahweh I cut them down.

^118:13 I was pressed, pressed, about to fall, but Yahweh came to my help;

^118:14 Yahweh is my strength and my song, he has been my saviour.

^118:15 Shouts of joy and safety in the tents of the virtuous: Yahweh’s right hand is wreaking havoc,

^118:16 Yahweh’s right hand is winning, Yahweh’s right hand is wreaking havoc!

^118:17 No, I shall not die, I shall live to recite the deeds of Yahweh;

^118:18 though Yahweh has punished me often, he has not abandoned me to Death.

^118:19 Open the gates of virtue to me, I will come in and give thanks to Yahweh.

^118:20 This is Yahweh’s gateway, through which the virtuous may enter.

^118:21 I thank you for having heard me, you have been my saviour.

^118:22 It was the stone rejected by the builders that proved to be the keystone;

^118:23 this is Yahweh’s doing and it is wonderful to see.

^118:24 This is the day made memorable by Yahweh, what immense joy for us!

^118:25 Please, Yahweh, please save us. Please, Yahweh, please give us prosperity.

^118:26 Blessings on him who comes in the name of Yahweh! We bless you from the house of Yahweh.

^118:27 Yahweh is God, he smiles on us. With branches in your hands draw up in procession as far as the horns of the altar,

^118:28 You are my God, I give you thanks, I extol you, my God; I give you thanks for having heard me, you have been my saviour.

^118:29 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, his love is everlasting!

^6:30 The apostles rejoined Jesus and told him all they had done and taught.

^6:31 Then he said to them, ‘You must come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while’; for there were so many coming and going that the apostles had no time even to eat.

^6:32 So they went off in a boat to a lonely place where they could be by themselves.

^6:33 But people saw them going, and many could guess where; and from every town they all hurried to the place on foot and reached it before them.

^6:34 So as he stepped ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length.