Day 98: Israel Asks for a King (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike draws our attention to Samuel's sons who turned away from God as they ruled over Israel and how the people of Israel rejected God from being their king. Today's readings are 1 Samuel 6-8 and Psalm 86.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we |
| 0:08.0 | encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is |
| 0:12.8 | brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from |
| 0:16.8 | Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into |
| 0:21.2 | that story today. Today is day 98, and this is the last day before tomorrow, which is our first |
| 0:27.3 | messianic checkpoint, which begins the Gospel of John tomorrow. But today, day 98, we're reading |
| 0:32.7 | from 1st Samuel, chapters 6, 7, and 8. We're also praying Psalm 86. As always, I'm reading from the |
| 0:39.1 | translation called the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure |
| 0:43.1 | Bible from Ascension. If you have that, you can follow along. If you don't, you can follow |
| 0:46.3 | along as well in whatever Bible you do have. If you want to download your own Bible in a year |
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| 1:01.1 | Well, you will be subscribed. But as I said, gosh, what a gift. Day 98. You guys, well done. I just |
| 1:08.4 | want to say it again. Well done. First Samuel, chapter 6, 7 and 8 in Psalm 86. |
| 1:15.1 | The first book of Samuel, chapter 6. The ark returned to Israel. The ark of the Lord was in the |
| 1:21.8 | country of the Philistines seven months, and the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, |
| 1:27.3 | What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place. |
| 1:32.3 | They said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. |
| 1:40.3 | Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you. And they said, What is the guilt offering, then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away |
| 1:45.3 | from you. And they said, what is the guilt offering that we shall return to him? They answered, |
| 1:51.5 | five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, |
| 1:56.8 | for the same plague was upon all of you and upon your lords. So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land |
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