Daily Devotions (Page 159)

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:  2 Samuel 11:1-5English Standard Version (ESV) David and Bathsheba 11 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking…

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 6:20-35 (ESV) Warnings Against Adultery 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. 21 Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. 22 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp and…

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 6:1-19 (ESV) Practical Warnings 6 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, 2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, 3 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently…

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 5:15-23 (ESV) 15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at…

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 5:1-14 (ESV) Warning Against Adultery 5 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 2 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. 3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet…

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 4:14-27 (ESV) 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. 15 Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. 16 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. 17 For…

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 4:1-13 Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, 2 for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, 4 he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast…

Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 3:13-35 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, 14 for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. 15 She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are…

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 3:1-12 (ESV) Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart 3 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. 3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on…

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Proverbs 2 (ESV) The Value of Wisdom 2 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it…