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David therefore did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
The Vigil
Today’s scroll, one verse at a time — each linked to the last by the cross-references rather than by any model of you. The same vigil for everyone, and a different one tomorrow.
If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.
from I Chronicles 14:16
But he said, Yes rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
from John 13:17 · a strong link
Blessed are they that do his commandments, so that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
from Luke 11:28 · a strong link
Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
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Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in me.
from Acts 20:21
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
from Acts 26:18
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
from I John 1:9
Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:
from Romans 3:26
Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
from Acts 13:38
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Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, look, we turn to the Gentiles.
To you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
from Acts 13:46 · a strong link
You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
from Acts 3:26
And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
from Acts 3:25
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the pagans through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.
from Genesis 26:4
For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
from Galatians 3:8
For bodily training profits little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
from Hebrews 4:2
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Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
from Acts 17:31
Before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
from Psalms 9:8
Say among the pagans that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
from Psalms 98:9
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For truly against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
from Acts 4:27 · a strong link
And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
from Matthew 27:2 · a strong link
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
from Matthew 20:19
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath shall you restrain.
from Acts 2:23
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You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.
Yet many years did you forbear them, and testified against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the people of the lands.
from Acts 7:51
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down:
from Nehemiah 9:30
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
from Isaiah 5:5
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
from Isaiah 28:3
And it happened, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the warriors which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
from Isaiah 26:6
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And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.
But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
from Acts 22:21 · a strong link
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
from Acts 9:15
Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you,
from Romans 11:13
And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.
from Acts 26:17
And it happened, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
from Jeremiah 1:19
Then Pharaoh’s army had come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.
from Jeremiah 37:11
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from I Chronicles 14:16 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.
Each verse follows the one before it along the chain a study Bible draws — a century old, public, and compiled by people arguing about Scripture rather than about how long you stay. Every card says which verse it came from and opens the chapter it belongs to. Today’s vigil is the same for every reader and is worked out from the date alone, so there is no account, no counter, and nothing stored in your browser or ours.
The text is the Lantern Modern Standard. The links are openbible.info’s cross-reference set (CC BY), the same apparatus behind the reader’s Echoes drawer. Read a whole book · Today’s table