Shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land,
Which I sware unto their fathers to give

them.

February 9

-Joshua 1: 5-6.

Ruth and Naomi.

And Ruth said,

Entreat me not to leave thee,

Or to return from following after thee:
For whither thou goest, I will go;

And where thou lodgest, I will lodge:
Thy people shall be my people,

And thy God my God:
Where thou diest, will I die,

And there will I be buried:

The Lord do so to me,

And more also,

Knew that Samuel was established
To be a prophet of the Lord.

So Jonathan made a covenant
With the house of David, saying,
Let the Lord even require it

At the hand of David's enemies.

And Jonathan caused David to swear again,
Because he loved him:

For he loved him

As he loved his own soul.

And Jonathan said to David,

Go in peace,

Forasmuch as we have sworn

Both of us in the name of the Lord, saying,

The Lord be between me and thee,

And between my seed and thy seed for ever.

And he arose and departed:

And Jonathan went into the city.

-1 Sam. 20: 16, 17, 42.

February 13

David.

I have made a covenant with my chosen,
I have sworn unto David my servant,
Thy seed will I establish for ever,
And build up thy throne to all generations.
-Ps. 89: 3-4.

February 14

Solomon.

And God gave Solomon wisdom

And understanding exceeding much,

And largeness of heart,

Even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

-1 Kings 4: 29.

February 15

Hezekiah.

And thus did Hezekiah throughout all of Judah,
And wrought that which was good and right
And truth before the Lord his God.

And in every work that he began

In the service of the house of God,
And in the law,

And in the commandments,

To seek his God,

He did it with all his heart,

And prospered.

February 16

Esther.

-II Chron. 31: 20-21.

Then Esther the queen answered and said,
If I have found favour in thy sight,

O king,

And if it please the king,

Let my life be given me at my petition,

And my people at my request:

For we are sold,

I and my people,

To be destroyed,

To be slain,

And to perish.

But if we had been sold for bondmen and bond

women,

I had held my tongue,

Although the enemy could not countervail

The king's damage.

February 17

Job.

-Esther 7: 3-4.

And the Lord said unto Satan,

Hast thou considered my servant Job,

That there is none like him in the earth,
A perfect and an upright man,

One that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
-Job 1: 8.

February 18

Isaiah.

Who hath believed our report?

And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender

plant,

And as a root out of a dry ground:
He hath no form nor comeliness;
And when we shall see him,

There is no beauty that we should desire him.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him;
And with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned every one to his own way;
And the Lord hath laid on him

The iniquity of us all.

February 19

Jeremiah.

-Is. 53: 1, 2, 5, 6.

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah,

Of the priests that were in Anathoth,

In the land of Benjamin: