Daily Readings - 13/02/2026

^11:29 One day when Jeroboam had gone out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh accosted him on the road. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak; the two of them were in the open country by themselves.

^11:30 Ahijah took the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve strips,

^11:31 saying to Jeroboam, ‘Take ten strips for yourself, for thus Yahweh speaks, the God of Israel, “I am going to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and give ten tribes to you.

^11:32 He shall keep one tribe[*b] for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel;

^12:19 And Israel has been separated from the House of David until the present day.

^81:1 Shout for joy to honour God our strength, shout to acclaim the God of Jacob!

^81:2 Start the music, sound the drum, the melodious lyre and the harp;

^81:3 sound the New Moon trumpet, at the full moon, on our feastday!

^81:4 This is a statute binding on Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob,

^81:5 this decree he imposed on Joseph when he went to war against Egypt. I can hear a voice I no longer recognise,

^81:6 ‘It was I who relieved your shoulder of the burden, your hands could drop the labourer’s basket;

^81:7 you called in your trouble, so I rescued you. ‘Hidden in the storm, I answered you, I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (pause)

^81:8 Listen, you are my people, let me warn you. Israel, if you would only listen to me!

^81:9 ‘Tolerate no foreign god, worship no alien god;

^81:10 I, Yahweh, am your God, I who brought you here from Egypt; you have only to open your mouth for me to fill it.

^81:11 ‘My people refused to listen to me, Israel refused to obey me,

^81:12 so I left them to their stubborn selves to do whatever they pleased.

^81:13 ‘If only my people would listen, if Israel would follow my ways,

^81:14 at one blow I would defeat their enemies and strike at all who attack them.

^81:15 ‘Then those who hate Yahweh would cringe, their doom being sealed for ever;

^81:16 while I would feed you on pure wheat and satisfy you with the wild rock honey.’

^7:31 Returning from the district of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region.

^7:32 And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him.

^7:33 He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man’s ears and touched his tongue with spittle.

^7:34 Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened’.

^7:35 And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke clearly.

^7:36 And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it.

^7:37 Their admiration was unbounded. ‘He has done all things well,’ they said ‘he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.’