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May 9, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday May 9, 2022 (NIV)

1 Samuel 5-7

The Ark in Ashdod and Ekron

5 After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer^(A) to Ashdod.^(B) ²Then they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon.^(C) ³When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen^(D) on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! They took Dagon and put him back in his place. ⁴But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! His head and hands had been broken^(E) off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained. ⁵That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter Dagon’s temple at Ashdod step on the threshold.^(F)

⁶The Lord’s hand^(G) was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation^(H) on them and afflicted them with tumors.^[a]^(I) ⁷When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the god of Israel must not stay here with us, because his hand is heavy on us and on Dagon our god.” ⁸So they called together all the rulers^(J) of the Philistines and asked them, “What shall we do with the ark of the god of Israel?”

They answered, “Have the ark of the god of Israel moved to Gath.^(K)” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

⁹But after they had moved it, the Lord’s hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic.^(L) He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.^[b] ¹⁰So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.^(M)

As the ark of God was entering Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought the ark of the god of Israel around to us to kill us and our people.” ¹¹So they called together all the rulers^(N) of the Philistines and said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it^[c] will kill us and our people.” For death had filled the city with panic; God’s hand was very heavy on it. ¹²Those who did not die^(O) were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

The Ark Returned to Israel

6 When the ark of the Lord had been in Philistine territory seven months, ²the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners^(P) and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”

³They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift;^(Q) by all means send a guilt offering^(R) to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand^(S) has not been lifted from you.”

⁴The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?”

They replied, “Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number^(T) of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague^(U) has struck both you and your rulers. ⁵Make models of the tumors^(V) and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory^(W) to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land. ⁶Why do you harden^(X) your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel’s god dealt harshly with them,^(Y) did they^(Z) not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?

⁷“Now then, get a new cart^(AA) ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked.^(AB) Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. ⁸Take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, ⁹but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh,^(AC) then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”

¹⁰So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves. ¹¹They placed the ark of the Lord on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors. ¹²Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.

¹³Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat^(AD) in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight. ¹⁴The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering^(AE) to the Lord. ¹⁵The Levites^(AF) took down the ark of the Lord, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock.^(AG) On that day the people of Beth Shemesh^(AH) offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. ¹⁶The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekron.

¹⁷These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the Lord—one each^(AI) for Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. ¹⁸And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers—the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

¹⁹But God struck down^(AJ) some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy^[d] of them to death because they looked^(AK) into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them. ²⁰And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who can stand^(AL) in the presence of the Lord, this holy^(AM) God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”

²¹Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim,^(AN) saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to your town.” 7 ¹So the men of Kiriath Jearim came and took up the ark^(AO) of the Lord. They brought it to Abinadab’s^(AP) house on the hill and consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord. ²The ark remained at Kiriath Jearim^(AQ) a long time—twenty years in all.

Samuel Subdues the Philistines at Mizpah

Then all the people of Israel turned back to the Lord.^(AR) ³So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning^(AS) to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid^(AT) yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths^(AU) and commit^(AV) yourselves to the Lord and serve him only,^(AW) and he will deliver^(AX) you out of the hand of the Philistines.” ⁴So the Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only.

⁵Then Samuel^(AY) said, “Assemble all Israel at Mizpah,^(AZ) and I will intercede^(BA) with the Lord for you.” ⁶When they had assembled at Mizpah,^(BB) they drew water and poured^(BC) it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Now Samuel was serving as leader^[e]^(BD) of Israel at Mizpah.

⁷When the Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines came up to attack them. When the Israelites heard of it, they were afraid^(BE) because of the Philistines. ⁸They said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying^(BF) out to the Lord our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines.” ⁹Then Samuel^(BG) took a suckling lamb and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on Israel’s behalf, and the Lord answered him.^(BH)

¹⁰While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the Lord thundered^(BI) with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic^(BJ) that they were routed before the Israelites. ¹¹The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Kar.

¹²Then Samuel took a stone^(BK) and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,^[f]^(BL) saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

¹³So the Philistines were subdued^(BM) and they stopped invading Israel’s territory. Throughout Samuel’s lifetime, the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines. ¹⁴The towns from Ekron^(BN) to Gath that the Philistines had captured from Israel were restored to Israel, and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.^(BO)

¹⁵Samuel^(BP) continued as Israel’s leader^(BQ) all^(BR) the days of his life. ¹⁶From year to year he went on a circuit from Bethel^(BS) to Gilgal^(BT) to Mizpah, judging^(BU) Israel in all those places. ¹⁷But he always went back to Ramah,^(BV) where his home was, and there he also held court^(BW) for Israel. And he built an altar^(BX) there to the Lord.

Footnotes:

1 Samuel 5:6 Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate tumors. And rats appeared in their land, and there was death and destruction throughout the city
1 Samuel 5:9 Or with tumors in the groin (see Septuagint)
1 Samuel 5:11 Or he
1 Samuel 6:19 A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint 50,070
1 Samuel 7:6 Traditionally judge; also in verse 15
1 Samuel 7:12 Ebenezer means stone of help.

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

John 6:1-21

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand^(A)

6 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), ²and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs^(B) he had performed by healing the sick. ³Then Jesus went up on a mountainside^(C) and sat down with his disciples. ⁴The Jewish Passover Festival^(D) was near.

⁵When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip,^(E) “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” ⁶He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

⁷Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages^[a] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

⁸Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother,^(F) spoke up, ⁹“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”^(G)

¹⁰Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). ¹¹Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks,^(H) and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

¹²When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” ¹³So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

¹⁴After the people saw the sign^(I) Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”^(J) ¹⁵Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king^(K) by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.^(L)

Jesus Walks on the Water^(M)

¹⁶When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, ¹⁷where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. ¹⁸A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. ¹⁹When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[b] they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water;^(N) and they were frightened. ²⁰But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.”^(O) ²¹Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

Footnotes:

John 6:7 Greek take two hundred denarii
John 6:19 Or about 5 or 6 kilometers

Cross references:

John 6:1 : 6:1-13pp — Mt 14:13-21; Mk 6:32-44; Lk 9:10-17
John 6:2 : S Jn 2:11
John 6:3 : ver 15
John 6:4 : S Jn 11:55
John 6:5 : S Jn 1:43
John 6:8 : Jn 1:40
John 6:9 : 2Ki 4:43
John 6:11 : ver 23; S Mt 14:19
John 6:14 : S Jn 2:11
John 6:14 : Dt 18:15, 18; Mt 11:3; S 21:11
John 6:15 : Jn 18:36
John 6:15 : Mt 14:23; Mk 6:46
John 6:16 : 6:16-21pp — Mt 14:22-33; Mk 6:47-51
John 6:19 : Job 9:8
John 6:20 : S Mt 14:27

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 106:13-31

¹³But they soon forgot^(A) what he had done
and did not wait for his plan to unfold.^(B)
¹⁴In the desert^(C) they gave in to their craving;
in the wilderness^(D) they put God to the test.^(E)
¹⁵So he gave them^(F) what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease^(G) among them.

¹⁶In the camp they grew envious^(H) of Moses
and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.
¹⁷The earth opened^(I) up and swallowed Dathan;^(J)
it buried the company of Abiram.^(K)
¹⁸Fire blazed^(L) among their followers;
a flame consumed the wicked.
¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf^(M)
and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
²⁰They exchanged their glorious God^(N)
for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
²¹They forgot the God^(O) who saved them,
who had done great things^(P) in Egypt,
²²miracles in the land of Ham^(Q)
and awesome deeds^(R) by the Red Sea.
²³So he said he would destroy^(S) them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach^(T) before him
to keep his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they despised^(U) the pleasant land;^(V)
they did not believe^(W) his promise.
²⁵They grumbled^(X) in their tents
and did not obey the Lord.
²⁶So he swore^(Y) to them with uplifted hand
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,^(Z)
²⁷make their descendants fall among the nations
and scatter^(AA) them throughout the lands.

²⁸They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor^(AB)
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
²⁹they aroused the Lord’s anger^(AC) by their wicked deeds,^(AD)
and a plague^(AE) broke out among them.
³⁰But Phinehas^(AF) stood up and intervened,
and the plague was checked.^(AG)
³¹This was credited to him^(AH) as righteousness
for endless generations^(AI) to come.

Cross references:

Psalm 106:13 : S Ex 15:24
Psalm 106:13 : S Ex 16:28; S Nu 27:21
Psalm 106:14 : S Ps 78:40
Psalm 106:14 : S Ps 68:7
Psalm 106:14 : S Ex 17:2; 1Co 10:9
Psalm 106:15 : S Ex 16:13; Ps 78:29
Psalm 106:15 : S Nu 11:33
Psalm 106:16 : Nu 16:1-3
Psalm 106:17 : Dt 11:6
Psalm 106:17 : S Ex 15:12
Psalm 106:17 : S Nu 16:1
Psalm 106:18 : S Lev 10:2
Psalm 106:19 : S Ex 32:4; Ac 7:41
Psalm 106:20 : Jer 2:11; Ro 1:23
Psalm 106:21 : Ps 78:11
Psalm 106:21 : Dt 10:21; Ps 75:1
Psalm 106:22 : S Ps 78:51
Psalm 106:22 : S Ex 3:20; S Dt 4:34
Psalm 106:23 : S Ex 32:10
Psalm 106:23 : Ex 32:11-14; S Nu 11:2; S Dt 9:19
Psalm 106:24 : Nu 14:30-31
Psalm 106:24 : S Dt 8:7; S Jer 3:19
Psalm 106:24 : S Nu 14:11; Heb 3:18-19
Psalm 106:25 : S Ex 15:24; Dt 1:27; 1Co 10:10
Psalm 106:26 : S Nu 14:23; Heb 4:3
Psalm 106:26 : S Dt 2:14; Heb 3:17
Psalm 106:27 : S Lev 26:33
Psalm 106:28 : S Nu 23:28
Psalm 106:29 : Nu 25:3
Psalm 106:29 : S Ps 64:2; 141:4
Psalm 106:29 : S Nu 16:46; 25:8
Psalm 106:30 : S Ex 6:25
Psalm 106:30 : Nu 25:8
Psalm 106:31 : S Ge 15:6; S Nu 25:11-13
Psalm 106:31 : Ps 49:11

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 14:32-33

³²When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down,^(A)
but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.^(B)

³³Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning^(C)
and even among fools she lets herself be known.^[a]

Footnotes:

Proverbs 14:33 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac discerning / but in the heart of fools she is not known

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

May 8, 2022

05/08/2022 DAB Transcript

1 Samuel 2:22-4:22, John 5:24-47, Psalms 106:1-12, Proverbs 14:30-31

Today is the 8^th day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you as we…as we twist the knob and open the threshold and step into a brand-new shiny sparkly week. And we get to do this 52 times in a year, roughly and this is one of them. And, so, we have all these resets, and this is a reset. It’s in front of us and I…I remind us most every week of that, I remind myself of that. No matter what was going on last week this is a new week, and we can stack day upon day upon day of good and make it a good week. And, so, let’s do that. And one of the ways is the rhythm that we have here, taking some time around the Global Campfires to step away from…from all that’s going on and allow the Scriptures to wash into our lives and inform us and speak to us and comfort us and rebuke us and correct us. And, so, let’s get to it. We began to read the book of first Samuel yesterday and we talked about that yesterday. We will of course continue the book of first Samuel today. This week we’ll read from the New International Version. And today, first Samuel 2:22 through 4:22.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the Scriptures. We thank you that they’re a tangible thing that we can actually hold onto and hold in our hand and to know that there’s insight and wisdom for life. Thank you for this gift and thank you for the gift of this brand-new week that we’re moving into and this brand-new territory that we’re moving into the Scriptures. Help us Father to understand and to discern. Help us to gain wisdom and insight. Help us to find ourselves in these stories that we might be changed and corrected. We pray this in the beautiful name of Jesus our Savior. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB family it’s Amanda in Nebraska and I just want to say how much I just love this community. I love the prayers that come in. I love that we can send in requests and know that they are being heard around the world and that we’re praying for people around the world. I love hearing all the different accents. And I don’t remember who it was, but a lady had commented how she loves hearing all of our background noises, the animals, the…you know, whatever is going on in the background. And it does feel like we’re right there with you, like we’re sitting in the kitchen having a Coke and just enjoying each other’s company. It’s such a unique setting and a unique opportunity that we have I feel like and I just…I love it and I appreciate each of y'all and I pray as your prayer request come in and I…I just can’t say it enough how much I just love this community. I love learning about Jesus. I love hearing commentaries. I know I kind of sound like I’m gushing but…but that’s how I feel. And in a time when we can’t live by our feelings this is a feeling that I can live by and honor God and honor each of you as we lift each other up. I’m running out of time so I will call back with my prayer request. You all have a fantastic day and can’t wait to get on and hear everybody’s voices.

This is from Treasures to Treasure, and I have asked for prayer before on this issue. And as I was standing here to disturbed in my spirit looking out my picture windows at the property from my ancestors the waiting time for an answer just seems overwhelming sometimes when I know how much my daughter is homesick and that I am homesick for her. And in my prayers, I was reminding our Father of all the prayers that have went up from strangers that have agreed to pray over the matter and for my DAB family praying and for family and friends praying. And, so, my dear friends I’m just asking if you will please lift this prayer request up for my daughter’s family home to be returned to her. And I’m unbelieving for another home for my other daughter to be able to give her grandson a permanent home out here beside us. He has several disabilities, and she has a couple other kids with a few issues and if you could just lift us up and remind the Father of our faithful prayers and our longings and desires I would greatly covet those prayers in praying in agreement. Father God your word says that if we pray and we believe that we have this confidence that you hear us.

Hello DAB family this is Annie and I would just like start off for saying thank you for everyone who has praying for my brother __ . We are asking for more prayers now. It really helps us. But we are asking for more prayers now because we don’t know where he is and the only thing we want for him is so he can return safely back into God’s wings so he can always be obedient to God forever. So, we would…me and my family would really appreciate it if more people could pray for my brother. And, yeah thank you guys.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family I am kind of new here. I have only been listening for a couple weeks now and I just wanted to say hi. I’m new here. I really love you guys around the Global Campfire here. Brian, thank you. Just wanted to…I just wanted to say hey I'm…I’m only 13 years old but I really enjoy having this opportunity to be able to listen to the Bible because I don’t always have enough time to…to read it. So, thank you and you all are in my prayers. Thank you. Goodbye.

Hi this is David from Norwich in the UK. I would appreciate your prayers for myself and family. My wife Penny has had a mental breakdown approximately 4 weeks ago and she spent the last three weeks in hospital, and it’s been very struggle…a journey and the things she’s saying, the accusations she’s saying against me are making it very hard and where are we gonna go next to __ the hospital whether I should be advocating to come out of the hospital for her to return home. I __ and the pressures are just getting too much on our relationship and __ I don’t see any way forward. I’m just holding on to the ropes but it’s getting tough. And I need to make decisions…and the right decisions that will help us both to get through this. So, appreciate your prayers. Thank…

May 8, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday May 8, 2022 (NIV)

1 Samuel 2:22-4

²²Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything^(A) his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women^(B) who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ²³So he said to them, “Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. ²⁴No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the Lord’s people is not good. ²⁵If one person sins against another, God^[a] may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the Lord, who will^(C) intercede^(D) for them?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father’s rebuke, for it was the Lord’s will to put them to death.

²⁶And the boy Samuel continued to grow^(E) in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people.^(F)

Prophecy Against the House of Eli

²⁷Now a man of God^(G) came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor’s family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh? ²⁸I chose^(H) your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense,^(I) and to wear an ephod^(J) in my presence. I also gave your ancestor’s family all the food offerings^(K) presented by the Israelites. ²⁹Why do you^[b] scorn my sacrifice and offering^(L) that I prescribed for my dwelling?^(M) Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?’

³⁰“Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.^(N)’ But now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor,^(O) but those who despise^(P) me will be disdained.^(Q) ³¹The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,^(R) ³²and you will see distress^(S) in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age.^(T) ³³Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants^(U) will die in the prime of life.

³⁴“‘And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign^(V) to you—they will both die^(W) on the same day.^(X) ³⁵I will raise up for myself a faithful priest,^(Y) who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his priestly house, and they will minister before my anointed^(Z) one always. ³⁶Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead,^(AA) “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.^(AB)”’”

The Lord Calls Samuel

3 The boy Samuel ministered^(AC) before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare;^(AD) there were not many visions.^(AE)

²One night Eli, whose eyes^(AF) were becoming so weak that he could barely see,^(AG) was lying down in his usual place. ³The lamp^(AH) of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house^(AI) of the Lord, where the ark^(AJ) of God was. ⁴Then the Lord called Samuel.

Samuel answered, “Here I am.^(AK)” ⁵And he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.

⁶Again the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

“My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.”

⁷Now Samuel did not yet know^(AL) the Lord: The word^(AM) of the Lord had not yet been revealed^(AN) to him.

⁸A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy. ⁹So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

¹⁰The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!^(AO)”

Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

¹¹And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle.^(AP) ¹²At that time I will carry out against Eli everything^(AQ) I spoke against his family—from beginning to end. ¹³For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,^[c] and he failed to restrain^(AR) them. ¹⁴Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned^(AS) for by sacrifice or offering.’”

¹⁵Samuel lay down until morning and then opened the doors of the house of the Lord. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision, ¹⁶but Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son.”

Samuel answered, “Here I am.”

¹⁷“What was it he said to you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide^(AT) it from me. May God deal with you, be it ever so severely,^(AU) if you hide from me anything he told you.” ¹⁸So Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing from him. Then Eli said, “He is the Lord; let him do what is good in his eyes.”^(AV)

¹⁹The Lord was with^(AW) Samuel as he grew^(AX) up, and he let none^(AY) of Samuel’s words fall to the ground. ²⁰And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba^(AZ) recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord.^(BA) ²¹The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed^(BB) himself to Samuel through his word.

4 And Samuel’s word came to all Israel.

The Philistines Capture the Ark

Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at Ebenezer,^(BC) and the Philistines at Aphek.^(BD) ²The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield. ³When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why^(BE) did the Lord bring defeat on us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark^(BF) of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh,^(BG) so that he may go with us^(BH) and save us from the hand of our enemies.”

⁴So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim.^(BI) And Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

⁵When the ark of the Lord’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel raised such a great shout^(BJ) that the ground shook. ⁶Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What’s all this shouting in the Hebrew^(BK) camp?”

When they learned that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp, ⁷the Philistines were afraid.^(BL) “A god has^[d] come into the camp,” they said. “Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before. ⁸We’re doomed! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck^(BM) the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues^(BN) in the wilderness. ⁹Be strong, Philistines! Be men, or you will be subject to the Hebrews, as they^(BO) have been to you. Be men, and fight!”

¹⁰So the Philistines fought, and the Israelites were defeated^(BP) and every man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great; Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers. ¹¹The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.^(BQ)

Death of Eli

¹²That same day a Benjamite^(BR) ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dust^(BS) on his head. ¹³When he arrived, there was Eli^(BT) sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.

¹⁴Eli heard the outcry and asked, “What is the meaning of this uproar?”

The man hurried over to Eli, ¹⁵who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes^(BU) had failed so that he could not see. ¹⁶He told Eli, “I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day.”

Eli asked, “What happened, my son?”

¹⁷The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead,^(BV) and the ark of God has been captured.”^(BW)

¹⁸When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led^[e]^(BX) Israel forty years.^(BY)

¹⁹His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains. ²⁰As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.

²¹She named the boy Ichabod,^[f]^(BZ) saying, “The Glory^(CA) has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband. ²²She said, “The Glory^(CB) has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”^(CC)

Footnotes:

1 Samuel 2:25 Or the judges
1 Samuel 2:29 The Hebrew is plural.
1 Samuel 3:13 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text sons made themselves contemptible
1 Samuel 4:7 Or “Gods have (see Septuagint)
1 Samuel 4:18 Traditionally judged
1 Samuel 4:21 Ichabod means no glory.

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

John 5:24-47

²⁴“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me^(A) has eternal life^(B) and will not be judged^(C) but has crossed over from death to life.^(D) ²⁵Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come^(E) when the dead will hear^(F) the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life^(G) in himself. ²⁷And he has given him authority to judge^(H) because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming^(I) when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.^(J) ³⁰By myself I can do nothing;^(K) I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just,^(L) for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.^(M)

Testimonies About Jesus

³¹“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.^(N) ³²There is another who testifies in my favor,^(O) and I know that his testimony about me is true.

³³“You have sent to John and he has testified^(P) to the truth. ³⁴Not that I accept human testimony;^(Q) but I mention it that you may be saved.^(R) ³⁵John was a lamp that burned and gave light,^(S) and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

³⁶“I have testimony weightier than that of John.^(T) For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing^(U)—testify that the Father has sent me.^(V) ³⁷And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me.^(W) You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,^(X) ³⁸nor does his word dwell in you,^(Y) for you do not believe^(Z) the one he sent.^(AA) ³⁹You study^[a] the Scriptures^(AB) diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.^(AC) These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,^(AD) ⁴⁰yet you refuse to come to me^(AE) to have life.

⁴¹“I do not accept glory from human beings,^(AF) ⁴²but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. ⁴³I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God^[b]?^(AG)

⁴⁵“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses,^(AH) on whom your hopes are set.^(AI) ⁴⁶If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.^(AJ) ⁴⁷But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”^(AK)

Footnotes:

John 5:39 Or ³⁹Study
John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One

Cross references:

John 5:24 : S Mt 10:40; S Jn 3:15; S 3:17
John 5:24 : S Mt 25:46
John 5:24 : Jn 3:18
John 5:24 : 1Jn 3:14
John 5:25 : Jn 4:23; 16:32
John 5:25 : Jn 8:43, 47
John 5:26 : Dt 30:20; Job 10:12; 33:4; Ps 36:9; S Jn 1:4
John 5:27 : S ver 22
John 5:28 : Jn 4:21; 16:2
John 5:29 : S Mt 25:46
John 5:30 : ver 19
John 5:30 : Isa 28:6; Jn 8:16
John 5:30 : S Mt 26:39
John 5:31 : Jn 8:14
John 5:32 : ver 37; Jn 8:18
John 5:33 : S Jn 1:7
John 5:34 : 1Jn 5:9
John 5:34 : Ac 16:30, 31; Eph 2:8; Tit 3:5
John 5:35 : Da 12:3; 2Pe 1:19
John 5:36 : 1Jn 5:9
John 5:36 : Jn 14:11; 15:24
John 5:36 : S Jn 3:17
John 5:37 : Jn 8:18
John 5:37 : Dt 4:12; 1Ti 1:17; S Jn 1:18
John 5:38 : 1Jn 1:10; 2:14
John 5:38 : Isa 26:10
John 5:38 : S Jn 3:17
John 5:39 : Ro 2:17, 18
John 5:39 : S Mt 25:46
John 5:39 : S Lk 24:27, 44; Ac 13:27
John 5:40 : Jn 6:44
John 5:41 : ver 44
John 5:44 : S Ro 2:29
John 5:45 : Jn 9:28
John 5:45 : Ro 2:17
John 5:46 : Ge 3:15; S Lk 24:27, 44; Ac 26:22
John 5:47 : Lk 16:29, 31

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 106:1-12

Psalm 106^(A)

¹Praise the Lord.^[a]^(B)

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;^(C)
his love endures forever.^(D)

²Who can proclaim the mighty acts^(E) of the Lord
or fully declare his praise?
³Blessed are those who act justly,^(F)
who always do what is right.^(G)

⁴Remember me,^(H) Lord, when you show favor^(I) to your people,
come to my aid^(J) when you save them,
⁵that I may enjoy the prosperity^(K) of your chosen ones,^(L)
that I may share in the joy^(M) of your nation
and join your inheritance^(N) in giving praise.

⁶We have sinned,^(O) even as our ancestors^(P) did;
we have done wrong and acted wickedly.^(Q)
⁷When our ancestors were in Egypt,
they gave no thought^(R) to your miracles;
they did not remember^(S) your many kindnesses,
and they rebelled by the sea,^(T) the Red Sea.^[b]
⁸Yet he saved them^(U) for his name’s sake,^(V)
to make his mighty power^(W) known.
⁹He rebuked^(X) the Red Sea, and it dried up;^(Y)
he led them through^(Z) the depths as through a desert.
¹⁰He saved them^(AA) from the hand of the foe;^(AB)
from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.^(AC)
¹¹The waters covered^(AD) their adversaries;
not one of them survived.
¹²Then they believed his promises
and sang his praise.^(AE)

Footnotes:

Psalm 106:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verse 48
Psalm 106:7 Or the Sea of Reeds; also in verses 9 and 22

Cross references:

Psalm 106:1 : 106:1, 47-48pp — 1Ch 16:34-36
Psalm 106:1 : S Ps 22:23; S 103:2
Psalm 106:1 : S Ps 119:68
Psalm 106:1 : S Ezr 3:11; Ps 136:1-26; Jer 33:11
Psalm 106:2 : S Ps 71:16
Psalm 106:3 : Ps 112:5; Hos 12:6
Psalm 106:3 : Ps 15:2
Psalm 106:4 : Ps 25:6, 7
Psalm 106:4 : S Ps 77:7
Psalm 106:4 : S Ge 50:24
Psalm 106:5 : S Dt 30:15; Ps 1:3
Psalm 106:5 : S Ps 105:6
Psalm 106:5 : Ps 20:5; 27:6; 47:5; 118:15
Psalm 106:5 : S Ex 34:9
Psalm 106:6 : S 1Ki 8:47; S Ro 3:9
Psalm 106:6 : S 2Ch 30:7
Psalm 106:6 : Ne 1:7
Psalm 106:7 : S Jdg 3:7
Psalm 106:7 : Ps 78:11, 42
Psalm 106:7 : Ex 14:11-12
Psalm 106:8 : Ex 14:30; S Ps 80:3; 107:13; Isa 25:9; Joel 2:32
Psalm 106:8 : S Ex 9:16; S Ps 23:3
Psalm 106:8 : S Ex 14:31
Psalm 106:9 : Ps 18:15; Isa 50:2
Psalm 106:9 : S Ex 14:21; Na 1:4
Psalm 106:9 : Ps 78:13; Isa 63:11-14
Psalm 106:10 : Ex 14:30; Ps 107:13
Psalm 106:10 : S Ps 78:53
Psalm 106:10 : Ps 78:42; 107:2; Isa 35:9; 62:12
Psalm 106:11 : S Ex 14:28
Psalm 106:12 : Ex 15:1-21; S Ps 105:43

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 14:30-31

³⁰A heart at peace gives life to the body,
but envy rots the bones.^(A)

³¹Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,^(B)
but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.^(C)

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

May 7, 2022

5/7/2022 DAB Transcript

1 Samuel 1:1-2:21, John 5:1-23, Psalm 105:37-45, Proverbs 14:28-29

Today is the seventh day of May, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and, in case you forgot, and it’s great to be here with you today, as we move forward together, the next step forward in the Scriptures. And so, even as we reach the conclusion of a week, we are at the beginning of a brand-new book and we’re moving into some new territory.

Introduction to the Book of I Samuel:

We have been camped out in the centuries of the judges, as we move through the Book of Judges and then we read the book of Ruth, which comes from the time of Judges, which brings us to the book of first Samuel. And oddly enough, Samuel was the last judge in Israel and its Samuel that leads us to the monarchy, or the time of the monarchy. Samuel leads us to be introduced to Israel’s first king, and we will meet him in this book, his name is Saul, and Saul has plenty to teach to us about ourselves, as does King David who follows him. So, we have first and second Samuel before us. First Samuel will introduce us to Saul, second Samuel will introduce us to David and then following the two books of Samuel, we will read first Kings and second Kings about the time of the monarchy. So, a lot of the biblical scholars believe that what we are about to read, contained in the books of Samuel, were, may be recorded by three prophets and Israel, Samuel being one of them. But also, Nathan and Gad. And, interestingly enough, there wasn’t a first and second Samuel, it was all one text, and it actually gets more, a little bit more, convoluted than that because first and second Samuel and first and second Kings were all grouped together as one specific, continuous text. So, when the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old Testament as we know it, was translated out of the Hebrew language, into the Greek language, which was called the Septuagint, then the books were divided into four different books and they were known as the Books of the Kingdoms. And then later, when the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into the Latin language, which is called the Vulgate, they became the Books of the Kings. So, we have first Kings, second Kings, third Kings, and fourth Kings. So, it can get a little bit convoluted there, is that what we now know as first and second Samuel, was actually at one time first and second Kings and what was known as third and fourth Kings, is now known as first and second Kings. So, the way that we have things now, first Samuel, second Samuel, first Kings, second Kings, that came to be out of all biblical history, within the last 400 years when the King James Bible was translated into English in the year 1611. So, as we begin the book of first Samuel, we’ll get to know who Samuel is, where he came from, what his family story is, how he came to prominence, and then we’ll see why he was a respected judge in Israel. If fact, the final judge, that brings them their first king. And that is largely because everybody was doing what was right in their own eyes and there was no king in Israel, as the Book of Judges told us, over and over. Then, Samuel steps into that having heard the voice of God and been called, being called to be the prophet of God. And so, when he begins to speak on behalf of God as a prophet, that’s something historically that the Hebrew people understood, more. Like Moses was a prophet of God, who spoke on behalf of God and led the children of Israel. And so, that’s something that they understood, this direct speaking for God. And so, Samuel leads the people forward. And with that, let’s dive in. We’re reading from the Modern English Version this week. First Samuel chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 21.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and another week in your word and we thank You day-by-day, step-by-step, all that comes in through our minds and ears and flows down into our hearts and how there’s a lot in there being cultivated. And we ask, Holy Spirit, that You come, plant what we’ve learned and what we are learning into the soil of our hearts and may we collaborate when You show us the weeds, may we collaborate in pulling them out, so that we are fertile garden that yields a mighty harvest. And we thank You for this new territory that we’re moving into now with the books of Samuel. Lead us, teach us, guide us, lead us into all truth, lead us on the narrow path that leads to life, make what we read be a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Good afternoon, good morning DAB family, this is Samone calling from Houston. And I just wanted to give a praise report. Yeah, blown away and overwhelmed. I’m sitting at my doctor’s office at my yearly physical and my niece calls and she is my sisters only child. And my sister passed away from breast cancer almost four years ago. And, three years ago, and her father died, my nieces father died before she was born. So, she’s about to be 30 this year and she’s lost her mother and she’s never known because he died before she passed. I digress. I’m sitting in my doctor’s office and she calls me and when she calls, she’s like, turn on your video and she shows me a pregnancy test. Her and her husband have been struggling with infertility for the whole marriage, which is been about 7, going on 8 years. And, a year ago they adopted a child which was also their God child. And, I kept saying to her, I believe God is going to open your womb. I believe God is going to open your womb. And He did. She found out just two days ago, she’s pregnant. And guess what, she’s almost through her first trimester. She’s 13 weeks. So, this message is for all the couples struggling with infertility. God hears your prayers; He hears your cry. And we never gave up, we were at faith. We were touching and agreeing, fasting, praying and believing God. And after seven, almost eight years of marriage and they’re young, in there 30s. He finally did it. Stay encouraged.

Hi, I’m calling from Colorado. This is my first time calling. I’ve always debated whether I should could call before, any other times. I’ve come through like a wall and like a deep depression. I’ve always contemplated calling and asking for help, but thankfully God has given me the strength in listening to all of your prayers and hearing you guys sing. It’s given me enough strength to move forward and continue. And just hearing everyone’s has given me the call to, the courage to be able to talk and finally ask for help. It’s been a tough couple of years, you know, last year I had lost my job and it’s been a financial wreck. This year, I had a miscarriage and that was really hard on me. I prayed to God and everything, He’s been able to comfort me and be there for me and thankfully he blessed me once again with a baby and I’m currently pregnant. Over the weekend I did get into a car accident so it just adds to my financial stress. And it’s just a lot going on right now with the pregnancy, the finances, trying to pay for all of my pregnancy appointments and trying to pay for all the miscarriage and all the hospital visits and now this car accident. It’s been quite a bit and I know God has given me a couple signs and a couple things I should read and focus on but I just feel like, I’m kind stuck. And I know a lot of people are in the same boat, you know, interest rates have gone up and like, it’s very difficult. But I have the confidence that everything will be better and I just want everyone to pray for me if you can. Thank you, guys, so much.

Good morning DABers, it’s Richard the Radio Station Manager. I’ve been listening over the years. I’ve been around on the phone lately. I need your help. I find myself more and more stressed about the little things but also finding the current work that I’m doing can be very stressful and I’m, instead of resting in God and understanding His yoke is easy and His burden is light, and He’s not in the earthquake and He’s not in the fire and He’s not in the tornado. He’s in the still. Those things aren’t bringing me comfort like they used to. I just, I suppose I’m reaching out to you in this time of need. I’ve got another pressing need at work and unfortunately my emotional life seems to overwhelm me. So, just asking for your prayers.

Hi, this is Victorious Soldier just calling to pray for some of the DABers. I wanna first give a high congratulations and send a prayer to my precious DABer who became a Chaplain in the National Guard. I wanted to say congratulations, praise the Lord. I couldn’t think of a much better person for it. And God knew that you for it. Father, we just ask You to bless him, we bless him everyday that they go into that office, everyday that they serve. Lord, that you would come and give him the wisdom and knowledge, you give them what they need and you guide their footsteps, Father. We thank You for blessing this precious one with the Chaplain, Father. In the name of Jesus. We just ask You to touch the other DABers that are with the lady whose son has autism and wanted to pray for that precious child. I wanted to pray for Lady of Victory, want to pray for those that are going through in their marriage, want to pray for the woman who wanted to have a baby late in time and that she got married late in time. I can say, I’m one of those and I had my first child, I was about 40. So, God is able to do anything. He done Sarah and He did me. And just be encouraged. And I pray Lord, that You bless her womb, Lord. That you bless her to provide, so bless her womb and provide her with a child, Father. In the name of Jesus. We just ask You to touch those that want to get married, those that have a desire to get married. We ask You to show them the heart of the person that they want to marry and let them be yoked with Him. Father, we just ask You to touch those that want to have a baby. We just ask You to bless their womb, Lord. You have Your way, Father. You bless that child; they would be a child that You’re calling them to be. Thank Father, in the name of Jesus. We just ask you to touch the DAB …

Hi, wonderful Hardin Family and Daily Audio Bible community, my name is JoyAnn or Nurse Joyful B, as I call myself when I called back in January. I wanted to tell you a praise. The day after I submitted my prayer request, the Lord started in motion something so beautiful. My prayer group leader called me that following day, had a financial need and I’m a woman who is currently separated from my husband, he’s not yet a believer. And she set in motion, where I was able to receive a nearly new car that is safe and beautiful, it’s my Jesus car. And I love that the Lord provided for me because in Isaiah 54:5 it’s says “For your maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is His name and your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel”. And in verse six, “For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and like a youthful wife when she was refused.” And I’m weeping because my husband refused me because of my faith. We’ve been married 37 years but at least the Lord is my husband and he provided me with a beautiful car. And so, He will provide for you all, as well. I know there are so many women in my shoes that are hurting, their husbands don’t yet know the Lord, but I pray for you. I remember ChrisAnn and Gloria and others over the years and may the Lord comfort your hearts. There are so many of you out there that long for your husband’s salvation. So, thank you for praying for me and thanking the Lord for me for this provision, which is just one of many. I love this community; it is such a comfort. God bless you.

May 7, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday May 7, 2022 (NIV)

1 Samuel 1:1-2:21

The Birth of Samuel

1 Now there was a certain man from Ramathaim Zuphim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. ²And he had two wives; the name of one was Hannah and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

³This man went up out of his city annually to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts in Shiloh. And there the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the Lord. ⁴When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters. ⁵But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb. ⁶Now her rival provoked her greatly, making her miserable because the Lord had closed her womb. ⁷Thus it was yearly, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her. So Hannah wept and did not eat. ⁸Then said Elkanah her husband to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? And why do you not eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

⁹So Hannah arose after they had eaten in Shiloh and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a seat by the door of the tabernacle of the Lord. ¹⁰And she was bitter, and prayed to the Lord, and wept severely. ¹¹So she made a vow and said, “O Lord of Hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant, and remember me and not forget Your maidservant, but will give to Your maidservant a baby boy, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”^[a]

¹²And as she was praying before the Lord, Eli watched her mouth. ¹³Now Hannah was speaking in her heart. Her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk. ¹⁴So Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine from you.”

¹⁵And Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrow. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. ¹⁶Do not consider your handmaid to be a sinful woman, for out of the abundance of my concern and provocation I have spoken until now.”

¹⁷Then Eli answered and said, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant you your request that you have asked of Him.”

¹⁸And she said, “Let your handmaid find grace in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was not sad as before.

¹⁹They rose up in the morning early and worshipped before the Lord. And they returned and came to their house to Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. ²⁰And it came to pass that Hannah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Samuel saying, “Because I have asked him of the Lord.”

The Dedication of Samuel

²¹Then the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and his vow. ²²But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, “I will not go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and live there forever.”

²³So Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the Lord establish His word.” So the woman remained, and nursed her son until she weaned him.

²⁴When she had weaned him, she took him up with her with three bulls, one ephah^[b] of flour, and a bottle of wine. And she brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh, though the boy was young. ²⁵Then they slaughtered a bull, and they brought the boy to Eli. ²⁶And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here praying to the Lord. ²⁷For this boy I prayed, and the Lord has given me my petition which I asked of Him. ²⁸Therefore also I have let the Lord have him. As long as he lives he will be dedicated to the Lord.” And he worshipped the Lord there.

The Prayer of Hannah

2 Hannah prayed, saying:

“My heart rejoices in the Lord;
my horn is exalted in the Lord.
My mouth is bold against my enemies,
because I rejoice in Your salvation.

²“There is none holy as the Lord,
for there is none besides You,
and there is no rock like our God.

³“Do not multiply proud speech,
nor let arrogance come out of your mouth,
for the Lord is the God of knowledge,
and by Him actions are examined.

⁴“The bows of the mighty are broken,
but those who stumbled are girded with strength.
⁵Those that were full have hired out themselves for bread,
and those that were hungry ceased to hunger.
Even the barren has borne seven,
and she that has many children wastes away.

⁶“The Lord kills and makes alive;
He brings down to the grave and brings up.
⁷The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
He brings low and lifts up.
⁸He raises up the poor out of the dust
and lifts up the oppressed from the dunghill
to make them sit with princes
and inherit a throne of glory.

“For the pillars of the earth belong to the Lord,
and He has set the world upon them.
⁹He will guard the feet of His saints,
but the wicked will be silent in darkness.

“For by strength shall no man prevail.
¹⁰The adversaries of the Lord will be broken to pieces;
He will thunder against them out of heaven.
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth.

“He will give strength to His king
and exalt the horn of His anointed.”

¹¹Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.

Wicked Sons of Eli

¹²Now the sons of Eli were corrupt. They did not know the Lord. ¹³The priest’s custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the flesh was cooking with a three-pronged fork in his hand. ¹⁴And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot, and all that the fork brought up the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the children of Israel who came there. ¹⁵Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast. For he will not take boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

¹⁶If any man said to him, “Let them first burn the fat and then take as much as you wish,” then he would answer him, “No, but you will give it to me now, and if not, I will take it by force.”

¹⁷Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord. For the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.

God Blesses Hannah

¹⁸But Samuel ministered before the Lord, as a boy, wearing a linen ephod. ¹⁹Now his mother would make him a little coat and brought it to him every year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. ²⁰And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “The Lord give you offspring from this woman for the sake of the request which was made to the Lord.” Then they would return to their home. ²¹The Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before the Lord.

Footnotes:

1 Samuel 1:11 Hannah dedicates Samuel as a lifetime Nazirite (see Nu 6:2–21).
1 Samuel 1:24 Likely about 36 pounds, or 16 kilograms.

Modern English Version (MEV)

John 5:1-23

The Healing at the Pool

5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches. ³In these lay a great crowd of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. ⁴For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. After the stirring of the water, whoever stepped in first was healed of whatever disease he had. ⁵A certain man was there who had an illness for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been in that condition now a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

⁷The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. But while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

⁸Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” ⁹Immediately the man was healed, took up his bed, and walked.

That day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath day. It is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”

¹¹He answered them, “He who healed me said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”

¹²So they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

¹³Now the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in that place.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have become whole. Sin no more lest something worse happens to you.” ¹⁵The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

¹⁶So the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day. ¹⁷Jesus answered them, “My Father is working still, and I am working.” ¹⁸So the Jews sought even more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do. For whatever He does, likewise the Son does. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does. And He will show Him greater works than these so that you may marvel. ²¹For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. ²²The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³that all men should honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Modern English Version (MEV)

Psalm 105:37-45

³⁷Then He brought them out with silver and gold,
and no one among their tribes faltered.
³⁸Egypt was glad when they left,
for the fear of Israel fell upon them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering,
and fire to give light in the night.
⁴⁰The people asked, and He brought quail,
and satisfied them with abundant bread of heaven.
⁴¹He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out;
they ran in the desert like a river.

⁴²For he recalled His holy promise
to Abraham His servant.
⁴³He brought forth His people with joy,
and His chosen ones with gladness,
⁴⁴and gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the fruitful labor of the people,
⁴⁵that they might observe His statutes
and keep His laws.

Praise the Lord!

Modern English Version (MEV)

Proverbs 14:28-29

²⁸In the multitude of people is a king’s honor,
but in the lack of people is the destruction of a prince.

²⁹He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding,
but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

Modern English Version (MEV)

May 6, 2022

05/06/2022 DAB Transcript

Ruth 2:1-4:22, John 4:43-54, Psalms 105:16-36, Proverbs 14:26-27

Today is May 6^th welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is awesome to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire. We find a place and let it go and let the Scriptures speak for themselves into our lives. Around this Global Campfire is on my favorite places to be in the world. And, so, let’s dive in for today. We finished the book of Judges yesterday and began the book of Ruth yesterday. We talked about the book of Ruth. Today we’ll read the rest of the story and complete the book of Ruth before moving ahead, and as confusing as it might be, moving ahead to meet the last judge of Israel as we move into the book of first Samuel tomorrow. But that’s tomorrow and we’re here now and we have the rest of the story of Ruth out in front of us. We’re reading from the Modern English Version this week. Ruth, chapters to 3 and 4 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we concluded the book of Ruth today and it is a gorgeous story and such a story of hope and such an uplifting story in a season where we’ve been through all kinds of tragic stories in the Scriptures. But if we remember back to the beginning of the story it begins in a tragic sort of way. There’s famine in the land. Ruth and her husband and their sons leave and go to the land of Moab where they live for a decade and the sons grow up and so they get wives, Moabite wives, one of whom is Ruth, but everybody dies except for the ladies. The women remain alive Naomi, Orpah and Ruth. Naomi is in the depths. She’s overwhelmed with sadness. She is leaving a land that she has come to know, a land that she’s lived in for a decade to return back to her homeland now that the famine is over, but she’s going home a widow. She’s going home with nothing. And Orpah, one of the daughters-in-law goes back to Moab and disappears from the narrative. So, we don’t know what happened t her. But Ruth will not leave Naomi. She clings to Naomi. She says, “wherever you go I will go. Wherever you die will be buried. Your God will be my God, your people will be my people.” This is…this is a loyalty that gains a reputation quickly when they get back to their homeland in Israel. And, so, Ruth’s reputation is growing, and then she begins to do what is provided for in the Mosaic law. She goes into neighboring fields where she’s able to glean whatever is left over. She is a widow Naomi is a widow and widows are provided for after this fashion. But she catches the attention of Boaz and then we know, we just read the story. Turns out he’s a family redeemer and Naomi begins to see what’s going on here and what’s possible here for Ruth and she guides her through the process of allowing Boaz to know that she’s available, but she doesn’t have to give her dignity away to prove it. And, so, she ends up lying at the feet of Boaz, who wakes up and freaks out as anyone would, and, especially, there is a strange woman in my bed at my feet. That's…well…I don’t know what that feels like, but I think that would be weird. Boaz thought it was weird, but he also knew what it meant, and he begins to also counsel about what needs to happen. And as Naomi told Ruth, he’s not gonna rest until this matter is settled. And the matter is settled, and Ruth and Boaz are wed, and they have a child, a son, and they name him Obed and he brings great joy to a very bitter heart, the heart of Naomi. And Obed grows up and he is the grandfather of King David who we will meet soon enough. This story could have gone any number of ways. May we remember that this is happening at the time of the judges when there is no king in Israel and everybody does what was right in their own eyes. This story could have gone a number of ways. And Ruth could have had a very very different life and/or death being young and vital and foreign. But what we see is people going through hard times and holding on to their integrity, people going through disruption and hardship and being overwhelmed and grieving holding onto their character truly understanding what the message of the wilderness is, that they are utterly dependent upon God for everything. And they hold onto their integrity, and it is honored. May we take that lesson on board in our own lives because it’s a very, very gray world where anything is situational and we can justify anything and any shortcut, but integrity and character are things that are cultivated by the way that we handle disruption and handle grief and handle anger and handle misfortune. Most of the time our character and our integrity is revealed in the extremes of life. In the extreme hardship of life our character is going to be revealed, but also in the extreme abundance of life our character will be revealed. We see integrity and true character in the story of Ruth, and it was honorable to God and God blessed it. And the story changes here. This integrity and character is leading to a king of Israel. So, it is very very easy for us to think about the wrong choices that we make and where those roads are leading and how we don’t want to be on those roads but it’s worth considering where our integrity and our character are leading us because we are being led somewhere good, somewhere righteous. That is the path we want to be on. And, so, let’s give it some thought today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite you into that thought. Thank you for the story of Ruth. We thank you for what we can glean from it. We thank you that it causes us to consider our own integrity and where that is leading us and for what price we will sell it out. And we need to know these things. We need to strengthen these things. Make us people of integrity and character we pray. In the mighty name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, it’s Katie here from Nebraska. I wanted to give a shout out to Owen because I’m 18 as well and it’s pretty scary and you don’t know what you’re gonna do with your life. You don’t know how you’re going to manage college and everything else. It’s pretty scary to think about. And I just wanted to say God has a plan for you and I don’t want you to be afraid. I’m slowly learning that and I’m pretty stubborn. So, it’s been taking me awhile to figure out that I don’t get to rule what I get to do. And, yeah, I just wanted to tell you that. Bye.

This is Kathy from Kentucky. I have an issue that has gone all the way back to my childhood and that issue is shame. That has followed me for most of my life. I know that I had a hard time overcoming shame when I was going through treatment for my depression. So, also, I realized now that I stayed in a job for 20 years where I was not treated with respect at all. And because I don’t know if I just didn’t think I deserved better or what. But anyways I’m in recovery from drugs and alcohol year 30 years clean and sober. But shame follows a lot of us who are recovering from addiction. So, I ask your prayers for that. Thank you. Kathy from Kentucky.

Happy Monday DAB family this is Jason from Louisiana. Today is may the 2^nd. I’m catching up. I’m about a week behind and I’m calling today to encourage the lady who called on April 26^th, the very last person who spoke. Your son is named Josh, he’s 22 years old and he’s facing some legal issues. First, I want to say I am praying with you in agreement for favor and a miracle regarding this but I also want to encourage you that regardless of the outcome of this next few weeks in the courtroom it’s not the end of the world regardless of the outcome. I’m going to share my story. I was in a similar situation. At 26 I was arrested, and I was facing some really serious legal issues and we prayed for a miracle. Long story short the miracle for me ended up being sitting in prison for 3 ½ years and finally surrendering my heart fully to Christ after two years in prison. And, so, I’ve been out for over eight years now and serving the Lord loving life and I am who I am today because of what I’ve been through. So, I just want to encourage you with your son Josh that no matter the outcome of the next few weeks God is in control. I’m reminded of two scriptures today. Isaiah 55, his thoughts are not our thoughts his ways are not our ways. And also, Romans 8:28. You know in my situation and even your sons I believe this and I will speak this over him, that what the enemy may have meant for evil regarding your son Josh the Lord is going to and is turning it around and using it for good. So, you be encouraged today. God bless you.

Good day DAB family I wanted to reach out today 18-year-old just turned 18 and now facing adulthood. And you are amazing and just even calling and asking. And God will guide you. Stand firm. And even as we get older, we are all faced with challenges. And Susan God’s Yellow Flower, you touched me today for the words that I needed to hear. And maybe it is time I just stand on top of my pile and put the cross there as the only thing it’s doing is creating anxiety and not trusting God for my future. And I need prayers for that, to just let it go. Never been this way until this past couple of years and it’s just really hitting home. And I feel lost and alone. I know that’s not true. I have a hard time talking to people about this. And I know that God is there, but I feel alone. Maybe He’s carrying me now, but it just ask for prayers and it’s just Humbled in California. Thank you, DAB family.

Hello DAB family this is Terry the Trucker today calling in and I’ve got a prayer request and a praise report. for it. The prayer request is my brother-in-law James passed out at work the other day. They carried him to the local hospital, and then they transferred him over to a bigger hospital in Waco. And come to find out he’s got some kind of an infection in his lungs. He was…he had a rash for a long time and his local doctor was treating him with steroids. The local doctor overdid it and kept him on steroids so long that his immune system actually dropped to zero. He came down with pneumonia and passed out at work. Come to find out the infection that he’s got is highly contagious. They did an MRI. We’re waiting to find out if it’s done any damage to any other parts of his body, his brain, veins, organs. They say he could be in their hospital all the way up to December. It’s pretty serious. The CDC, the contagious disease center is working with the doctors to help treat him and figure out what to do but the infection is actually from soil, from dirt. He’s __ welder. Yeah, but as I said his body is exposed, covered with galvanized particles. But it’s pretty serious. I ask you to lift up James and my sister Tina…they…as they go through this. Thank you for your prayers. I want you to remember I always pray for you. God bless.

May 6, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday May 6, 2022 (NIV)

Ruth 2-4

Ruth Meets Boaz

2 Now Naomi had a relative of her husband, a man of prominence and means from the clan of Elimelek. His name was Boaz.

²Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the field and glean among the heads of grain behind anyone in whose eyes I may find favor.”

Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter.” ³So she went to glean in the field behind the harvesters. She happened to come to a part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

⁴Just then Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “May the Lord be with you!”

And they said to him, “May the Lord bless you.”

⁵Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

⁶So the servant who was in charge of his harvesters answered, “She is the young Moabitess woman who came back with Naomi from the land of Moab. ⁷She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather grain among the bundles behind the harvesters.’ So she came and has remained from morning until now, though she rested a little while in the house.”

⁸Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field and leave this one. Stay close to my young women. ⁹Keep your eyes on the field in which they reap and follow after them. I have commanded the men not to touch you. When you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.”

¹⁰So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should acknowledge me, a foreigner?”

¹¹Boaz answered and said to her, “I have been told all that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to a people you did not know before. ¹²May the Lord reward your deeds. May you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

¹³Then she said, “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

¹⁴At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here, and eat some bread, and dip your piece in the vinegar.”

So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he passed her some roasted grain. She ate and was full and had some left over. ¹⁵When she got up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, “Let her glean even among the bundles, and do not harm her. ¹⁶Also pull out some grain for her from the bundles and leave it so that she may glean it, and do not rebuke her.”

¹⁷So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah^[a] of barley. ¹⁸She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She drew it out and gave her what she had left, after she had been satisfied.

¹⁹Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? May he who took notice of you be blessed.”

So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

²⁰Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn His kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “This man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeeming relatives.”

²¹Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He even told me, ‘You should stay close to my servants until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”

²²Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is better, my daughter, that you go with his young women, for in someone else’s field you might be harmed.”

²³So she stayed close to the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Ruth’s Redemption

3 One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, why should I not find a home that will be good for you? ²Now is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you have been working? Tonight he winnows barley on the threshing floor. ³Now wash and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. ⁴When he lies down, notice the place where he is lying. Go in and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what you will do.”

⁵She said to her, “All that you say to me I will do.” ⁶So she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed.

⁷When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down. ⁸At midnight, the man was startled and rolled over; and there, a woman was lying at his feet.

⁹He said, “Who are you?”

And she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant. Spread your cloak over me, for you are a redeeming kinsman.”

¹⁰He said, “May you be blessed of the Lord, my daughter. You have shown your last act of kindness to be greater than the first, because you have not pursued young men, whether poor or rich. ¹¹So now, my daughter, do not worry. All that you ask me, I will do for you. All of my fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of noble character. ¹²Now it is true that I am a redeeming kinsman. Yet there is another redeemer closer than I am. ¹³Stay here tonight, and in the morning if he wants to redeem you, very well. Let him do so. Yet if he does not want to redeem you, then I will redeem you. I will, as the Lord lives! Sleep here until morning.”

¹⁴So she lay at his feet until morning, but she arose before one could recognize another. Then he said, “It must not be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”

¹⁵He said, “Bring me the shawl you have on you, and hold it.” So she held it, and he poured six measures of barley into it and placed it on her. Then she went into the city.

¹⁶When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi said, “How did it go, my daughter?”

Then she told her all that Boaz had done for her. ¹⁷She said, “He gave me these six ephahs of barley, for he said to me, ‘Do not return to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ ”

¹⁸Then Naomi said, “Wait here, my daughter, until you learn what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”

Boaz Marries Ruth

4 So Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And now the redeemer of whom he had spoken passed by, and Boaz said, “Come over, friend, and sit here.” So he went over and sat down.

²Then Boaz took ten men from among the elders of the town and said, “Sit here.” So they sat down. ³He said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the land of Moab, must sell the plot of land belonging to our brother Elimelek. ⁴I thought I should inform you and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so that I know, for there is no one prior to you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’ ”

So he said, “I will redeem it.”

⁵Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the deceased, to perpetuate the name of the deceased through his inheritance.”

⁶The redeemer replied, “I am not able to redeem it for myself lest I ruin my own inheritance. Take my redemption rights for yourself, for I cannot do it.”

⁷(Now this was the custom in ancient times in Israel for redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, a man would remove his sandal and give it to his neighbor. This was a binding act in Israel.)

⁸Therefore the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself,” and he removed his sandal.

⁹Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have bought everything that belonged to Elimelek, Kilion, and Mahlon from Naomi. ¹⁰Moreover I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, in order to preserve the name of the deceased man for his inheritance, so that his name will not be cut off from among his brothers or from his town. You are witnesses this day.”

¹¹Then all the people who were at the gate, along with the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you do well in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem! ¹²May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

The Genealogy of David

¹³So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. When they came together, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son. ¹⁴Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you without a redeemer. May he become famous in Israel! ¹⁵He will be a comfort for your soul and support you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

¹⁶Then Naomi took the child, laid him on her lap, and became his nurse. ¹⁷The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

¹⁸Now these are the descendants of Perez:

Perez was the father of Hezron,

¹⁹Hezron the father of Ram,

Ram the father of Amminadab,

²⁰Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

Nahshon the father of Salmon,

²¹Salmon the father of Boaz,

Boaz the father of Obed,

²²Obed the father of Jesse,

and Jesse the father of David.

Footnotes:

Ruth 2:17 Likely about 30 pounds, or 13 kilograms.

Modern English Version (MEV)

John 4:43-54

The Healing of the Nobleman’s Son^(A)

⁴³After the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵Then, when He came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all the things He did at Jerusalem at the feast. For they had also gone to the feast.

⁴⁶So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick in Capernaum. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him, pleading that He would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

⁴⁹The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.”

And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ⁵¹While he was going down, his servants met him and told him, “Your son lives!” ⁵²When he inquired of them the hour when he began to heal, they answered, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

⁵³Then the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” So he and his whole household believed.

⁵⁴This was the second sign that Jesus did when He had come from Judea to Galilee.

Cross references:

John 4:43 : Mt 8:5–13; Lk 7:1–10

Modern English Version (MEV)

Psalm 105:16-36

¹⁶Moreover He called for a famine upon the land;
He broke the whole supply of bread.
¹⁷He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
¹⁸They hurt his feet with fetters;
his neck was put in an iron collar.
¹⁹Until the time that his word came to pass,
the word of the Lord tested him.
²⁰The king sent and released him;
the ruler of the people let him go free.
²¹He made Joseph lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions,
²²to imprison his princes at Joseph’s pleasure
and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³Then Israel came into Egypt,
and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
²⁴The Lord increased His people greatly
and made them stronger than their enemies.
²⁵He turned their hearts to hate His people,
to deal cleverly with His servants.
²⁶He sent Moses, His servant,
and Aaron whom He had chosen.
²⁷They showed His signs among them
and wonders in the land of Ham.
²⁸He sent darkness and made the land dark,
and Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His word.
²⁹He turned their waters into blood
and caused their fish to die.
³⁰Their land brought forth frogs in abundance,
even in the chambers of their kings.
³¹He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
and gnats in all their country.
³²He gave them hail for rain
and flaming lightning in their land.
³³He struck their vines and their fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came,
and caterpillars without number,
³⁵that devoured all the vegetation in their land,
and ate all the fruit of their ground.
³⁶He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruits of all their strength.

Modern English Version (MEV)

Proverbs 14:26-27

²⁶In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence,
and His children will have a place of refuge.

²⁷The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,
to depart from the snares of death.

Modern English Version (MEV)

May 6, 2022

5/5/2022 DAB Transcript

Judges 21:1- Ruth 1:22, John 4:4-42, Psalm 105:1-15, Proverbs 14:24-25

Today, is the 5th day of May, Cinco de Mayo. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is great to be here with you today, as we move forward, every day, step-by-step, together, through the Bible. And so let’s dive in. We are moving into some new territory in a few minutes. So, we have been moving through the Book of Judges, which once again, is the time period between Joshua’s death and the end of his leadership and leading us all the way until Israel anoints it’s first king. And as we have born witness, it was a tumultuous time, where there was no king in the land and everyone did what was right in their own eyes, as we’ve been told over and over in the Book of Judges. So, today, we will conclude the Book of Judges and then move forward, into the Book of Ruth and we’ll talk about the Book of Ruth before we begin it, in a few minutes. But first, Judges chapter 21.

Introduction to the Book of Ruth:

And that concludes the Book of Judges, which brings us to the opening of a new book. A Book of Ruth and Ruth isn’t a place that we’re gonna be able to camp out for that long, a couple of days and we’ll move through the short Book of Ruth. But it’s a beautiful story of loyalty and absolute trust in God through the lives of three major characters that are in the story, one of them, of course, being Ruth, another being her mother-in-law, Naomi, and the third being a man named Boaz. As it turns out, the faithfulness and loyalty to God and each other, of these people, brought about the circumstances that led to the birth of King David, and subsequently Jesus. This book shows us that when we are people of character, seeking wisdom, and making wise decisions, then the faithfulness of God hovers all around that. And after all that we’ve seen in the Book of Judges, the Book of Ruth really gives us a beautiful depiction of valent women of character. Nobody really knows exactly who wrote the Book of Ruth, there is Jewish tradition that talks about the Prophet Samuel writing it. Although biblical history scholars don’t necessarily think that’s possible. They think maybe, this was written after Samuel died in the time of King David. But the time period that we are referring to, in the Book of Ruth, refers to the time of the judges. And so, now let’s make this really confusing, at one time the Book of Ruth, was incorporated as a part of the Book of Judges and there was no Book of Ruth. But then, later on, it was separated as a story from the time of the judges, but not about a judge. And we were just talking about the prophet Samuel, who we didn’t meet in the book of Judges, but who was the final judge of Israel. We will meet Samuel, in depth, when we reach first and second Samuel. So, in the Book of Judges, we’ve seen some really beautiful things but we’ve seen some really, really trying, challenging, disruptive things as well. And so, the Book of Ruth comes like a breath of spring air, washing over the countryside, as we move forward in the story of the Bible and the story that the Bible is leading us into. So, let’s begin, Ruth chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for everything about it. We thank You for the way that it comforts us, guides us, illuminates our path, disrupts us, shakes us, shakes everything that can…can be shaken and encourages us to shake away all of the things that are holding us back or weighing us down. We thank You for the counsel of the Scriptures, we thank You for the lives that are found in the Scriptures and what they mean to us, not only as we study them and get to know them over time, but also for the stories that are represented and how they apply to our lives. And so, even as we move forward from the Book of Judges and into the Book of Ruth come, Holy Spirit, allow us to see what true character looks like. We pray this in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hi, this is Judy in Salt Lake City again. My daughter just called me and told me that her daughter, my granddaughter, lost her two boys to the state. Please pray, that my granddaughter can get her life together. She’s got mental health issues, like my daughter does and we adopted her oldest son, so. There’s no way that we can adopt the great grandkids too. And on top of that, my husband just had his daughter, from a teenage relationship, bake in his life and she’s dealing with a very aggressive breast cancer. So, if you guys would pray for Star, to get her life together, and get her boys back and for Jaime to be able to beat this cancer it would be really great.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family, this is Renzo in Florida. And I just want to pray for one of the DABers. Forgive me if I forgot your name, I think it’s Amy from Atlanta. But, Father God, I just pray for Amy from Atlanta and I pray for her son as he is dealing with bullying at school and how he has to take a certain test because of his autism and I just pray as he’s even going through puberty Father God, I pray for her son, Lord God. I pray that he’s just covered by the blood of Jesus. Let him just keep, walking with you God. Father God, I also pray for the bullying that he’s dealing with at school. Let the kid whose bullying him, let him to be born again, let him to stop having anger issues. Maybe, even if it’s your will Lord God, let them to become good friends, God, cause You can do the impossible, God. We just know that God, so just please rectify it, if it’s in Your will, Lord God. And we just thank You for everything that You do Lord. And, Jesus name we pray. Amen. God bless you guys, Jesus loves you, so do I. Bye.

Hi family, it’s Mykayla from Gloster. Here, it is Sunday, the 1st of May, it’s almost the end of Ramadan. Though, my 30 days of prayer is slightly on hold. The final few days will be coming, at some point, in the near future. So, I’ve got a full flat at the moment. Both my sisters are down for the long weekend, which is lovely. But yeah, disrupts the routine, but it’s really nice to have them. The reason why they felt the need to come down is not so nice. So, on Friday, my mum got diagnosed with breast cancer. And so, they both live in London, so they were actually able, so, that was a Friday. So, they were actually able to come down on Saturday cause it’s a three-day weekend. They’re able to stay until Monday. So, they feel as if, they can be here and help mum prepare for what she’s gonna have to, she’s gonna have chemo in less than 10 days, she’s gonna start that and then surgery. So yeah, helping with all of that’s involved, so it’s really nice to kind of share the worries and what we can do and to, all that sort of stuff. So, really value your prayers on that front. If you could pray for Debrah, my mum. Yeah, other than that, I’m not really sure how I’m doing cause yeah, but ultimately, I trust God. I knew this was a possibility that, she’d had test. And I think from that it was a, whatever happens, I trust you. Whatever happens, You’ll get us through. So, yeah, thanks family.

Hello DABers, this is K from Quanis, Ohio. This message, this prayer is for God’s Yellow Flower. I heard your heart, I felt you. Most importantly God heard you before you even uttered a word, He heard your heart and He caught every tear. Keep praying, keep trusting, God is still faithful in the midst of everything you’re going through. And what I heard, immediately, through your trauma, through your pain is that God is stretching you. He is stretching your faith. So, you’re gonna have to dig deep and rest in Him and abide in Him. The prayers that you prayed before when your husband died, that’s the same prayers that you need right now. So, rest in Him. He’s gonna cover you, He’s gonna keep you, He’s gonna give you the words to pray. So, that you can dig deep and get your heals, set them in the ground and stand, despite everything you’ve been blown. You’re gonna be like the Matrix, you’re just gonna dodge from side to side. And they’re gonna bounce off of you because you’re living what you’re preaching, what you’re saying. So, when you pray, pray and when you call back, you’re gonna have a praise report. So, all might not be well but you’re trusting God that all will be well and you’re speaking into existence as if it has already happened. So, stand and trust and know that God is God. And there’s no god above Him and that He can do all things. God Bless you.

Hey guys, this is JP from North Carolina. I’m a big fan of the Daily Audio Bible and this community. It’s just been like a lot of people say, such a blessing to me and my spiritual walk. I mean, you know, being in communion everyday with the word and with Brian and his family and all of you other DABers. It really does bring a sense of connection to the Lord through community. So, I mean, it’s just, I’m just so grateful. But the reason why I am you know, putting this little message in is, just to request in prayer for me and my wife. My wife and I just, we’re blessed by having, having our first little girl about four months ago. She’s four months old now, she’s healthy, everything’s great, we’re so blessed, we’re so grateful. But during this time, there’s been a lot of attack on my wife. And she’s going through, what we think is a pretty severe post-partum and she’s just being hit with just deep sadness every day and anxiety. And we’re in prayer, we’re in the word and the wilderness just continues. So, we just, request prayer from our fellow DABers and our family around the campfire to pray for her and for me, just to get through this and to remain faithful to the Lord and not to lose our…our faith in Him, through this hard time. Thank you, guys, so much. We continue to pray for the other people that we hear come up with their needs and we rejoice alongside you with your prayers, your praise reports. Okay, thanks guys.

May 5, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday May 5, 2022 (NIV)

Judges 21 - Ruth 1

Wives for the Benjamites

21 In Mizpah the men of Israel had taken an oath: “No one among us will give his daughter to a Benjamite as his wife.”

²So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They raised their voices and wept, sobbing loudly. ³They said, “Why, Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel, that today a tribe is missing from Israel?”

⁴In the morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

⁵The children of Israel said, “Who from all the tribes of Israel did not go up with the assembly to the Lord?” For they vowed a solemn oath regarding whoever did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah stating, “He must be killed.”

⁶The children of Israel lamented for Benjamin their brother, and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today. ⁷What can we do to find wives for those who are left? For we swore by the Lord not to give them our daughters as wives.” ⁸So they said, “Is there anyone from among the tribes of Israel who did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah?” Then they learned that no one from the camp of Jabesh Gilead had come to the assembly. ⁹When the people were counted, indeed, there was not a man there from among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead.

¹⁰So the assembly sent twelve thousand valorous men there and commanded them, “Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including women and children. ¹¹This is what you will do: You will kill every man and every woman who has slept with a man.” ¹²So among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

¹³Then the whole assembly sent someone to speak to the Benjamites who were at Rimmon Rock, and they declared peace. ¹⁴So the Benjamites returned at that time, and they gave to them the women who were still alive from among the women of Jabesh Gilead. Yet they did not find enough for them.

¹⁵The people felt sorry for Benjamin, for the Lord had made a gap among the tribes of Israel. ¹⁶The elders of the assembly said, “What can we do to find wives for those who are left? The Benjamite women were destroyed.” ¹⁷They said, “There must be an inheritance for the remnant of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel. ¹⁸Yet we cannot give them our daughters for wives, for the children of Israel swore, ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ” ¹⁹They said, “Wait! There is an annual festival of the Lord in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

²⁰So they commanded the Benjamites, “Go and hide in the vineyards. ²¹Watch, and then when the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, come out from the vineyards and have every man grab a wife for himself from among the daughters of Shiloh. Then go to the land of Benjamin. ²²When their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, ‘Be favorable to them for our sakes, because we did not take for each man a wife in the battle; for you have not given women to them at the time, thereby making yourselves guilty.’ ”

²³So the Benjamites did this. They carried away wives for each man from among the dancers that they caught. Then they returned to their inheritance, rebuilt the cities, and lived in them.

²⁴At that time, the children of Israel departed from there each man to his tribe and to his family. They went out from there to their own inheritance.

²⁵In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Naomi Loses

1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the land of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. ²The name of the man was Elimelek, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.

³Now Elimelek, the husband of Naomi, died, so she was left alone with her two sons. ⁴They took Moabite wives for themselves; the name of one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years. ⁵Then Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

⁶So she got up with her daughters-in-law to return from the land of Moab, for in the land of Moab, she had heard that the Lord had visited His people by giving them food. ⁷She set out from the place where she had been, with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on their way to return to the land of Judah.

⁸Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with your deceased husbands and with me. ⁹May the Lord grant that you each find rest in the house of another husband.”

Then she kissed them, and they raised their voices and wept aloud. ¹⁰They said to her, “We will return with you to your people.”

¹¹But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there sons in my womb, who could become your husbands? ¹²Turn back, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. Even if I thought that there was still hope for me, that I could have a husband tonight and give birth to sons, ¹³would you wait until they were grown? Would you refrain from getting married? No, my daughters. It is much more bitter for me than for you, for the hand of the Lord has turned against me.”

¹⁴Then they raised their voices and wept aloud once more. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

¹⁵Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and her gods. Return with her!”

¹⁶But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people and your God my God. ¹⁷Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do thus to me, and worse, if anything but death separates you and me!” ¹⁸When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.

¹⁹So they both went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women asked, “Is this Naomi?”

²⁰But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi. Call me Mara, because the Almighty has brought great bitterness to me. ²¹I was full when I left, but the Lord has caused me to return empty. Why should you call me Naomi when the Lord has opposed me? The Almighty has brought misfortune upon me!”

²²So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law. They came to Bethlehem at the start of the spring barley harvest.

Modern English Version (MEV)

John 4:4-42

⁴Now it was necessary that He go through Samaria. ⁵So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, therefore, being exhausted from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman of Samaria came there to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

¹¹The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? ¹²Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock?”

¹³Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.”

¹⁵The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

¹⁷The woman answered, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. So you have spoken truthfully.”

¹⁹The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you all say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

²¹Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²²You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. ²³Yet the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father seeks such to worship Him. ²⁴God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”

²⁶Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

²⁷Then His disciples came. They marveled that He talked with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

²⁸The woman then left her water pot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ²⁹“Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” ³⁰They went out of the city and came to Him.

³¹Meanwhile His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

³²But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

³³Therefore the disciples said one to another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. ³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen! I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest. ³⁶He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit that leads to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷For in this is the saying true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ ³⁸I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not labor. And you have benefited from their labor.”

³⁹Many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to remain with them. And He stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of His word.

⁴²They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this Man is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

Modern English Version (MEV)

Psalm 105:1-15

Psalm 105^(A)

¹Oh, give thanks unto the Lord; call upon His name;
make known His deeds among the peoples.
²Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him;
proclaim all His wondrous works.
³Glory in His holy name;
let the heart rejoice for those who seek the Lord.
⁴Seek the Lord and His strength;
seek His presence continuously.

⁵Remember His marvelous works that He has done;
His wonders and the judgments from His mouth,
⁶O offspring of Abraham, His servant,
O children of Jacob, His chosen ones.
⁷He is the Lord our God;
His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He remembers His covenant forever,
the word that He commanded, to a thousand generations,
⁹that covenant He made with Abraham,
and His oath to Isaac,
¹⁰and confirmed to Jacob as a decree,
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
¹¹saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion of your inheritance.”

¹²When they were but a few people in number,
indeed, very few, and strangers in it,
¹³when they went from one nation to another,
from one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴He did not permit anyone to do them wrong;
indeed, He reproved kings on their behalf,
¹⁵saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones,
and do no harm to my prophets.”

Cross references:

Psalm 105:1 : 1Ch 16:8–22

Modern English Version (MEV)

Proverbs 14:24-25

²⁴The crown of the wise is their riches,
but the foolishness of fools is folly.

²⁵A true witness delivers souls,
but a deceitful witness speaks lies.

Modern English Version (MEV)

May 4, 2022

05/04/2022 DAB Transcript

Judges 19:1-20:48, John 3:22-4:3, Psalms 104:24-35, Proverbs 14:22-23

Today is the 4^th day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together. And that next step forward leads us back into the book of Judges. And we will actually be concluding the book of Judges tomorrow. But before we can do that, we have some hard territory that we need to move through. Judges, chapters 19 and 20 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Judges we have a profoundly troubling story that really pretty much from beginning to end is no good. And once again, the book of Judges is making us…at least giving us an understanding of why things are the way that they are. So often as we move through this book we hear things like, there was no king in Israel or at that time the people did what was right in their own eyes or a combination of both of those statements. And that’s how our reading today begins. “In those days when there was no king in Israel there was a certain Levite living as a resident foreigner.” We learned all about that Levite living as a resident foreigner who went back to Bethlehem to find his concubine and rekindle their relationship and bring her home and her father’s continual delaying and asking them to stay another day. And finally, the guy leaves. Finally, they do leave and they’re on their way back and they could go to Jerusalem and stay with the Jebusites. That’s the closest place to stay, but the guy is like we’re gonna stay where there are other Israelites. We’re gonna stay with our own countrymen. And we can understand that. You don’t want to go into a foreign city. And who knows what’s gonna happen in a foreign city. But man, what happened in city that’s related and of the same people is by far worse than anything that could’ve happened. It’s like the worst thing that could’ve happened. So, they go to the city of Gibeah, the mound or ruins where this place was exists until this day. It is definitely not a safe or easy place to get to and it’s kind of a contested place because during the tumultuous time of the establishment of modern Israel there have been some wars and there have been territories that were taken and this particular area is one of those territories. So, it’s kind of contested. There was a palace being built upon the mound at one time back in like the early 1960s I think if I remember right, or mid 60s and it’s just a hole…it’s just left there. I’ve been there to film it. It's…I mean when you understand kind of what happened there, and what resulted there it's…it’s pretty dark. So, the place is still there and we don’t have to go into every gory detail. What happens is this concubine who had fled back to her father’s house in Bethlehem is thrown out the door and raped the death. I mean…and that’s probably the mild way to say it because she was abused in every way you can imagine and left. And she dragged herself back to the door and dies on the porch basically. And when the guy gets up in the morning and is like, come on let’s go. And right there, you know, like even at that part in the story you’re just livid at this guy. Like, what is going on here? What…what is this story? Why is this in the bible? Like this is a horrible horrible story. But then we have to go back to the beginning of the story. In those days there was no king in Israel and that is what judges continually shows us. The centuries that followed Joshua were centuries of decline and God intervening with a judge just to restore some things, but it was an ever downward spiral. And, so, once again we read a story like this, get maybe a little bit antagonistic toward God like he wanted this to happen, and certainly put this in the Bible and so we’re supposed to be disrupted by this. And all kinds of things can happen to us until we realize that we are seeing a time where everybody is making their own choices and doing what they think is right and its tribal. And even the tribes are not knit together as one people anymore. And that’s what ends up resulting. I mean we have this grisly tale of the woman dying in Gibeah and being taken back to her homeland and being divided up into 12 parts so one part of her body could be sent to each of the 12 tribes of Israel. And that actually brought them together as one person. Tragedy has a way of doing that. And that brought them back together. And we could think…ahh…this is just that the way things went. But it’s not. 400,000 people came together at Mizpah. This is about as viral of the thing as that…as we see in the Bible because this wasn’t texted or live streamed or posted anywhere. This word just spread very quickly and it’s through the body parts basically that show up among the tribal leaders. And, so, they come together united against the Benjamite’s who are standing by the perpetrators of this evil. And the people of Israel, the 400,000 people, they are incensed about this as we are when we read it. They are incensed about this. They say, “nothing like this has ever happened in Israel before.” So, we can see now why that would be documented and why we would be able to read about it and glean from it and try to gain some understanding and perspective from the way that this story goes so that it doesn’t get repeated. And once again we see the Bible leaving the dirt in. Like it’s not glorifying these people or glorifying anything but the Lord. And the Lord is so often exasperated as He’s like…what is…how…what are you doing? All you have to do to find what you’re looking for is come home to me but you’ve got to have this knowledge of good and evil and you’ve got to make your own way and you’ve gotta turn to other false gods and you’ve gotta abandon me. And, so, this is leading to nowhere. And once again, we see a story that shows us, this leads nowhere. Ultimately this led to civil war. Ultimately this led to tens of thousands of people dying. Ultimately, this brought the near complete annihilation of one of the tribes of Israel. And as we move toward our conclusion of Judges, we’ll see that the people realize that and it brings a tremendous amount of grief as we will see as we continue our journey forward tomorrow. And one of the things that we can certainly learn from the story like this one is that it all matters. Nothing that we do is inconsequential. Meaningless decisions in this story end up adding up to the destruction of the tribe of Israel. Like, if they had just left in the morning instead of night that could have changed the entire destiny, that could have change, the whole story. Or what if, after this crime, this terrible evil that has absolutely brought the people to gather in their outrage. What if when they went down to Gibeah and confronted the Gibeahites and said, “deliver the perpetrators to us because we have to cleanse…they have to die.” What if they had turned over the criminals? Totally different story. And if we go back through this story, we can see that every little decision built its way into a pretty monumental outcome. It all matters, the things that we do, the things we do in the dark, the things that we do in the light. It’s all adding up to something. At bare minimum it’s adding up to what our life’ story is. And if there’s going to be no sovereign in our life, if there is no king in our heart at that time and we are doing whatever seems right in our own eyes than this story becomes a metaphor of the kinds of things that can happen when we choose to be our own Lord.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word and we thank you for everything that’s in your word. Our story today from the book of Judges is not necessarily a favorite that we keep coming back to because it brings comfort. It doesn’t do that it brings disruption. It shakes us up. Thank You for that because it shows us what we’re capable of becoming when we become something without You. And we don’t want any part of that. And, so, we surrender ourselves yet again falling to our knees, raising our hands in surrender, opening our hearts to You and asking Holy Spirit, come reveal the darkness reveal the places we should not allow to be a part of who we are anymore because they are only leading us astray. And if we are led fully astray there is no end to the evil that we can perpetrate. And we can see from stories like today just how low it can get. So, forgive us. We humble ourselves. We repent. We surrender. We ask You to lead us into all truth, and we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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And that’s it for today. I’m Brian I love you and now I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning this is Donna Longing to be God’s Delight in Pennsylvania and this morning is Friday April 29^th and I’m calling in to pray for Tammy from the Adirondacks. I heard…Tammy I heard your prayer this morning and that you are just spent, I believe, at the end of your own strength and you’re over thinking and feeling guilty. You’re your husband’s caretaker which is hard hard hard and you’ve survived ovarian cancer. That’s amazing! That…that was a tremendous taxing toll on your body and your mind and emotions in and of itself. So, now you’re feeling guilty that you can’t please God. And, oh my dear, I pray that God’s mercy would just wash over you and lift you up. Lord Jesus, please fill Tammy with the light of Your love that she would know that You are her dear daughter, that You do please her, that no she’s not perfect but she is perfected in You and that You love her and that she is doing Your will in pouring herself out for her husband. And it may not be pretty, and she may not always feel what she thinks she should feel, but I pray Lord that all of what she knows because she knows You would sink into her heart, that she would feel it deep down. Heal the pain of her mind and emotions and lift her up and lighten her soul and lift her burden. Give her help and those to surround her with Your love. In Jesus’ name I pray all these things. Amen.

Good morning, everybody it’s Susan from Canada Gods Yellow Flower calling, and I hear a lot of people mourning their mother’s passing and I want you to know how lucky you are to have a mother that you actually miss. My mother was not a loving mother. I loved her terribly and so did my sisters. We all looked after her faithfully while she was suffering from a stroke and in a nursing home but for years I mourned not having the mother that loved me. But I want to pray for moms right now. Lord God, I just…you know, parenting is a very difficult difficult sacrificial job and I pray for each mother represented here, that the love of Christ would shine through. Even with the tough discipline we sometimes have to give our children we pray that the love would always shine through. I pray for wisdom over each parent to know what to do in every circumstance. And let it all be done and love. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

This is Doctor John in Illinois. First, I want to thank the Hardin family for this wonderful podcast, this chance…this chance to share together our lives. And this is a message for Tammy of the Adirondacks. And I want to say to you sister, don’t quit. There’s this song I’ve been listening to recently and one of the lines in it says, kings feel it, beggars and thieves feel it. And I think what it is when you are afraid and you’re fearful and you’re wondering does God hear me. I promise you sister he does. And you say you study a word and you’re seeking God. So, all through the word everywhere is a love story to you to tell you that He sees you and He hears you and He knows your needs before you ask. Psalm 27:14 says, wait on the Lord. Be of good courage for He strengthens your heart. Hebrews 10:35 says, do not throw away this confident trust you have in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you. And patient endurance is what you need right now so that you will continue to do God’s will. And you will receive what He’s promised. So, I just want to encourage you sister that there are people listening and people in the same boat as you are and the same questions and the same hurts and the same wonders. But I’m saying to you don’t quit. Stay with us. Trust in God because He’s always faithful. God bless you sister.

Hi this is Donna from California and was listening to the community prayer line for this this past week and Holly Heart had called in a prayer toward the end, a little bit more toward the end and really resonated with me the…the things that you were talking about, staying in the hotel and seeing these people around you who struggle. And earlier this week I was up in Santa Monica CA which is a pretty wealthy city, very hi red district. I was up there helping my daughter and babysitting my granddaughter. And I was walking my little granddaughter around town in her stroller and there are a lot of…just so many homeless folks who live up there. They’re just…they’re part of the landscape really and came across this image I just have not been able to get out of my mind. And I know we see this, but it was this…early in the morning, rather early, and a gentleman was just hunched over a filthy trash bin and he himself was just…just so disheveled and he was just digging through it looking for something to eat. And I was reminded that when Jesus sat down at table with people and when He reached out to lepers He didn’t say hey…hey how did you get to this state? How did this happen? He just saw the person. He saw the person and that person is a human being in the image of God. And I just…something I’ve carried with me. More to say but just wanted to reach out about that.

Hey there, DAB. You don’t know me. I am a first-time caller and I think I’ve decided to go by the name His Daughter Dominique and I’m just calling to give a praise report. Today is May 1^st, 2022, and I have just finished listening to the recording of December 31^st, 2021 and I am just so happy and emotional because I did it. It’s such an answered prayer, something I’ve been wanting to do for so many years and so many excuses made throughout my life as to why I didn’t have enough time to go through the Bible and read His word. And I am just so thankful for…for the DAB production and the family and all the blessings that I’ve encountered through this app and this community. I want you guys to know that I’ve prayed for each and every one of you. And I just want to encourage those first time listeners or those who are struggling for feeling behind. There’s no such thing. There’s no such thing as being behind. OK? God is working through you. Every day you listen there’s a new blessing, there’s something to be learned, there’s something to be…to just be gained. You can only gain from this. And if you’re behind just keep going like Brian says, just take one step forward. That’s OK if you’re five months behind like I am because in the end you’ll get there. And I’m so happy and just so encouraged and I can’t wait for tomorrow because tomorrow I’ll be starting January 1^st, 2022. So, thank you. I’m praying for you all and I love you.

1 Samuel 5-7

The Ark in Ashdod and Ekron

The Ark Returned to Israel

Samuel Subdues the Philistines at Mizpah

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John 6:1-21

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand(A)

Jesus Walks on the Water(M)

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Psalm 106:13-31

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Proverbs 14:32-33

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1 Samuel 2:22-4

Prophecy Against the House of Eli

The Lord Calls Samuel

The Philistines Capture the Ark

Death of Eli

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John 5:24-47

Testimonies About Jesus

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Psalm 106:1-12

Psalm 106(A)

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Proverbs 14:30-31

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1 Samuel 1:1-2:21

The Birth of Samuel

The Dedication of Samuel

The Prayer of Hannah

Wicked Sons of Eli

God Blesses Hannah

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John 5:1-23

The Healing at the Pool

The Authority of the Son

Psalm 105:37-45

Proverbs 14:28-29

Ruth 2-4

Ruth Meets Boaz

Ruth’s Redemption

Boaz Marries Ruth

The Genealogy of David

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John 4:43-54

The Healing of the Nobleman’s Son(A)

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Psalm 105:16-36

Proverbs 14:26-27

Judges 21 - Ruth 1

Wives for the Benjamites

Naomi Loses

John 4:4-42

Psalm 105:1-15

Psalm 105(A)

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Proverbs 14:24-25

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand^(A)

Jesus Walks on the Water^(M)

Psalm 106^(A)

The Healing of the Nobleman’s Son^(A)

Psalm 105^(A)