April 2022 – Page 3 – A Walk Through The Word

April 20, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday April 20, 2022 (NIV)

Joshua 21:1-22:20

The Towns Given to the Levites

21 Then the leaders of the tribe of Levi came to consult with Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the other tribes of Israel. ²They came to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us towns to live in and pasturelands for our livestock.” ³So by the command of the Lord the people of Israel gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own grants of land.

⁴The descendants of Aaron, who were members of the Kohathite clan within the tribe of Levi, were allotted thirteen towns that were originally assigned to the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. ⁵The other families of the Kohathite clan were allotted ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

⁶The clan of Gershon was allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

⁷The clan of Merari was allotted twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

⁸So the Israelites obeyed the Lord’s command to Moses and assigned these towns and pasturelands to the Levites by casting sacred lots.

⁹The Israelites gave the following towns from the tribes of Judah and Simeon ¹⁰to the descendants of Aaron, who were members of the Kohathite clan within the tribe of Levi, since the sacred lot fell to them first: ¹¹Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasturelands. (Arba was an ancestor of Anak.) ¹²But the open fields beyond the town and the surrounding villages were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

¹³The following towns with their pasturelands were given to the descendants of Aaron the priest: Hebron (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Libnah, ¹⁴Jattir, Eshtemoa, ¹⁵Holon, Debir, ¹⁶Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine towns from these two tribes.

¹⁷From the tribe of Benjamin the priests were given the following towns with their pasturelands: Gibeon, Geba, ¹⁸Anathoth, and Almon—four towns. ¹⁹So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

²⁰The rest of the Kohathite clan from the tribe of Levi was allotted the following towns and pasturelands from the tribe of Ephraim: ²¹Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Gezer, ²²Kibzaim, and Beth-horon—four towns.

²³The following towns and pasturelands were allotted to the priests from the tribe of Dan: Eltekeh, Gibbethon, ²⁴Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four towns.

²⁵The half-tribe of Manasseh allotted the following towns with their pasturelands to the priests: Taanach and Gath-rimmon—two towns. ²⁶So in all, ten towns with their pasturelands were given to the rest of the Kohathite clan.

²⁷The descendants of Gershon, another clan within the tribe of Levi, received the following towns with their pasturelands from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone) and Be-eshterah—two towns.

²⁸From the tribe of Issachar they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Kishion, Daberath, ²⁹Jarmuth, and En-gannim—four towns.

³⁰From the tribe of Asher they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Mishal, Abdon, ³¹Helkath, and Rehob—four towns.

³²From the tribe of Naphtali they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three towns. ³³So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were allotted to the clan of Gershon.

³⁴The rest of the Levites—the Merari clan—were given the following towns with their pasturelands from the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam, Kartah, ³⁵Dimnah, and Nahalal—four towns.

³⁶From the tribe of Reuben they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Bezer, Jahaz,^[a] ³⁷Kedemoth, and Mephaath—four towns.

³⁸From the tribe of Gad they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Mahanaim, ³⁹Heshbon, and Jazer—four towns. ⁴⁰So in all, twelve towns were allotted to the clan of Merari.

⁴¹The total number of towns and pasturelands within Israelite territory given to the Levites came to forty-eight. ⁴²Every one of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it.

⁴³So the Lord gave to Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. ⁴⁴And the Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had solemnly promised their ancestors. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the Lord helped them conquer all their enemies. ⁴⁵Not a single one of all the good promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything he had spoken came true.

The Eastern Tribes Return Home

22 Then Joshua called together the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ²He told them, “You have done as Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded you, and you have obeyed every order I have given you. ³During all this time you have not deserted the other tribes. You have been careful to obey the commands of the Lord your God right up to the present day. ⁴And now the Lord your God has given the other tribes rest, as he promised them. So go back home to the land that Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you as your possession on the east side of the Jordan River. ⁵But be very careful to obey all the commands and the instructions that Moses gave to you. Love the Lord your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.” ⁶So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went home.

⁷Moses had given the land of Bashan, east of the Jordan River, to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The other half of the tribe was given land west of the Jordan.) As Joshua sent them away and blessed them, ⁸he said to them, “Go back to your homes with the great wealth you have taken from your enemies—the vast herds of livestock, the silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and the large supply of clothing. Share the plunder with your relatives.”

⁹So the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the rest of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. They started the journey back to their own land of Gilead, the territory that belonged to them according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

The Eastern Tribes Build an Altar

¹⁰But while they were still in Canaan, and when they came to a place called Geliloth^[b] near the Jordan River, the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh stopped to build a large and imposing altar.

¹¹The rest of Israel heard that the people of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar at Geliloth at the edge of the land of Canaan, on the west side of the Jordan River. ¹²So the whole community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and prepared to go to war against them. ¹³First, however, they sent a delegation led by Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to talk with the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ¹⁴In this delegation were ten leaders of Israel, one from each of the ten tribes, and each the head of his family within the clans of Israel.

¹⁵When they arrived in the land of Gilead, they said to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ¹⁶“The whole community of the Lord demands to know why you are betraying the God of Israel. How could you turn away from the Lord and build an altar for yourselves in rebellion against him? ¹⁷Was our sin at Peor not enough? To this day we are not fully cleansed of it, even after the plague that struck the entire community of the Lord. ¹⁸And yet today you are turning away from following the Lord. If you rebel against the Lord today, he will be angry with all of us tomorrow.

¹⁹“If you need the altar because the land you possess is defiled, then join us in the Lord’s land, where the Tabernacle of the Lord is situated, and share our land with us. But do not rebel against the Lord or against us by building an altar other than the one true altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰Didn’t divine anger fall on the entire community of Israel when Achan, a member of the clan of Zerah, sinned by stealing the things set apart for the Lord^[c]? He was not the only one who died because of his sin.”

Footnotes:

21:36 Hebrew Jahzah, a variant spelling of Jahaz.
22:10 Or to the circle of stones; similarly in 22:11.
22:20 The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the Lord, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Luke 20:1-26

The Authority of Jesus Challenged

20 One day as Jesus was teaching the people and preaching the Good News in the Temple, the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders came up to him. ²They demanded, “By what authority are you doing all these things? Who gave you the right?”

³“Let me ask you a question first,” he replied. ⁴“Did John’s authority to baptize come from heaven, or was it merely human?”

⁵They talked it over among themselves. “If we say it was from heaven, he will ask why we didn’t believe John. ⁶But if we say it was merely human, the people will stone us because they are convinced John was a prophet.” ⁷So they finally replied that they didn’t know.

⁸And Jesus responded, “Then I won’t tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Parable of the Evil Farmers

⁹Now Jesus turned to the people again and told them this story: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and moved to another country to live for several years. ¹⁰At the time of the grape harvest, he sent one of his servants to collect his share of the crop. But the farmers attacked the servant, beat him up, and sent him back empty-handed. ¹¹So the owner sent another servant, but they also insulted him, beat him up, and sent him away empty-handed. ¹²A third man was sent, and they wounded him and chased him away.

¹³“‘What will I do?’ the owner asked himself. ‘I know! I’ll send my cherished son. Surely they will respect him.’

¹⁴“But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they said to each other, ‘Here comes the heir to this estate. Let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves!’ ¹⁵So they dragged him out of the vineyard and murdered him.

“What do you suppose the owner of the vineyard will do to them?” Jesus asked. ¹⁶“I’ll tell you—he will come and kill those farmers and lease the vineyard to others.”

“How terrible that such a thing should ever happen,” his listeners protested.

¹⁷Jesus looked at them and said, “Then what does this Scripture mean?

‘The stone that the builders rejected
has now become the cornerstone.’^[a]

¹⁸Everyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone it falls on.”

¹⁹The teachers of religious law and the leading priests wanted to arrest Jesus immediately because they realized he was telling the story against them—they were the wicked farmers. But they were afraid of the people’s reaction.

Taxes for Caesar

²⁰Watching for their opportunity, the leaders sent spies pretending to be honest men. They tried to get Jesus to say something that could be reported to the Roman governor so he would arrest Jesus. ²¹“Teacher,” they said, “we know that you speak and teach what is right and are not influenced by what others think. You teach the way of God truthfully. ²²Now tell us—is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

²³He saw through their trickery and said, ²⁴“Show me a Roman coin.^[b] Whose picture and title are stamped on it?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

²⁵“Well then,” he said, “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”

²⁶So they failed to trap him by what he said in front of the people. Instead, they were amazed by his answer, and they became silent.

Footnotes:

20:17 Ps 118:22.
20:24 Greek a denarius.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 89:1-13

Psalm 89

A psalm^[a] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

¹I will sing of the Lord’s unfailing love forever!
Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.
²Your unfailing love will last forever.
Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.

³The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant.
I have sworn this oath to him:
⁴‘I will establish your descendants as kings forever;
they will sit on your throne from now until eternity.’” Interlude
⁵All heaven will praise your great wonders, Lord;
myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.
⁶For who in all of heaven can compare with the Lord?
What mightiest angel is anything like the Lord?
⁷The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God.
He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne.
⁸O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies!
Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O Lord?
You are entirely faithful.

⁹You rule the oceans.
You subdue their storm-tossed waves.
¹⁰You crushed the great sea monster.^[b]
You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
¹¹The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours;
everything in the world is yours—you created it all.
¹²You created north and south.
Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise your name.
¹³Powerful is your arm!
Strong is your hand!
Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.

Footnotes:

89:Title Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
89:10 Hebrew Rahab, the name of a mythical sea monster that represents chaos in ancient literature.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 13:15-16

¹⁵A person with good sense is respected;
a treacherous person is headed for destruction.^[a]

¹⁶Wise people think before they act;
fools don’t—and even brag about their foolishness.

Footnotes:

13:15 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads the way of the treacherous is lasting.

New Living Translation (NLT)

April 19, 2022

4/19/2022 DAB Transcript

Joshua 19:1-20:9, Luke 19:28-48, Psalm 88:1-18, Proverbs 13:12-14

Today is the 19th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is great to be here with you today. We are already through the center of another month, feels like we didn’t begin that long ago. But we’re already through Easter, wow, day-by-day, step-by-step, we move very intentionally through the Scriptures and just shows us, this can be done and, imagine what can be done in our lives day-by-day, step-by-step, if we stay true, if we walk a straight path. And one of the things that illuminates that path, of course, the Scriptures and so we gather here around the Global Campfire, releasing the cares of this life, for a little while. We may not want to pick them back up but they’ll be there if we want them. But for now, we’re setting them aside to let the Scriptures illuminate our path. So, we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week, Joshua chapters 19 and 20.

Commentary:

Okay, so throughout our journey, so far, we have encountered some really, really sad scenes in the Bible. We’ve kinda talked about them as we passed by. I mean the Bible is full of humanity. It’s full of its ups and downs, it’s full of the stories of people going their own way and returning to God and then going their own way. Remember back within the first couple of days of the year, we’re in the Garden of Eden reading a very, very sad thing, “What have you done, what have you done?” And there’ve been other places like Moses, speaking directly to God and asking Him to send somebody else. We encounter another sad scene in the Gospel of Luke today. Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem, it’s a pretty big celebration, they have Him on a colt and they’re declaring Him King. And, of course, the religious people who were against Jesus are still really against Jesus and trying to get Him to shut this crowd down and try to figure out how they’re going to do away with this Guy. He’s too powerful among the people, they can’t, He can’t just disappear with nobody noticing. How are they going to do this? And Jesus has been carrying, well, I don’t know, we don’t know, but we can, can you imagine knowing that you are walking to your death and the kind of death you will die, will be that you will be tortured to death and then nailed up, hung up before people with nails through your hands and feet. So, He reaches the crest of the Mount of Olives, on His way into Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives, of course, is still in Jerusalem and it still has a crest and when you crest the Mount of Olives you can see down into the old city of Jerusalem. I have walked down that slop many, many times, There is a place there, that’s up on the slope, it’s actually where some of the most famous pictures of the old city of Jerusalem are taken because you’re looking across from the Mount of Olives and the Kedron Valley runs at the base of the Mount of Olives. You’re looking across into the old city and of course the Temple Mount. When Jesus crested of the Mount of Olives, He would’ve been looking down upon the Temple of God. A temple made to worship Him. And it seems like, it just, it just hit Jesus full force. And Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke, began to weep. That is sad. That is sad to me, anyway. Jesus, who came and revealed the kingdom and ignited the hearts of people and healed and restored and set people free. But Jesus, the Son of the living God, is brought to tears. And He said, “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes.” And of course, we know how the story goes. We’ve literally just walked through the Easter celebration, and so we know how this story goes and us moving into this territory in Luke allows us to revisit what we’ve just visited. But it’s what Jesus says that just flattens me. There are some…there are some things in the Bible that just hit me between the eyes, no matter how many times I’ve read them. And so, personalize this, like take it on board in your own heart and consider that you, that Jesus is talking about, to be you and hear the words of Jesus, “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace.” It almost brings tears to my eyes, because Jesus is weeping because they should have known better. They should’ve seen this; they should have known. It was right in front of their faces the whole time and they were blinded to it. But then I think, we should know better too. This should be a very, very different place because we are here. We are image bearers, carrying the light of the world into the world and revealing the kingdom. And yet, so often we are participating in things that are anything but that, anything but that. And we should know better. And so, I hear those words of Jesus, “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace” because we should understand the way to peace. We have been given the path. So, as we continue to come forward out of Easter reveling in the gift of our salvation and the opportunity for an intimate relationship with the most high God, then we should also allow Jesus words to penetrate our hearts and continue to transform us.

Prayer:

And that is our request Jesus. We understand that we don’t know all that we think we know, but so often, we think we still know it anyway. We think we are wise and we think we know what we’re doing and we think we’re defending You and standing up and fighting our brothers and sisters over You and over what we all think about You. “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace,” is what you’ve told us in Luke’s Gospel, and we should know it, we should know it by heart. But we confess that we don’t. And so even though You have given us gifts that are beyond imagination and rescued our very souls, we confess that we have much to learn and we will not learn it in our arrogance, we will learn it in our humility. And so, we humble ourselves before You and asked that You would come be the great comforter, lead us away from the things that are going nowhere, and lead us on the path, the narrow path that leads to life, we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayers and Encouragements:

Hello, this is regarding parable of the prodigal son. That was just an amazing, such and I thank God for that. I was both, I was a prodigal daughter and the daughter living with the parents and that’s latest I’m living with my mother in her house. My father passed away three years ago. And I was there, I was, I was like, looking outside of myself at relatives and family members and judging and criticizing. You know, I just, anyway the message just…just spoke to me, big time. And again, for both…both siblings and I praise God, I thank Him, cause He is so gracious and He loves us. He definitely, just wants to love us more that we can imagine. And anyway, I was…I was gone for couple of months until recently. I was gone on a job assignment and I was…I was alone a lot. I had four days off. I only worked three days during that time and I praise God, I thank Him because He was calling me to draw closer, near to Him and he did. And He showed me so many things and He definitely answered my prayer when I asked Him to search my heart and why was I responding and reacting the way that I did, my attitude. And He helped me recover from that. Jeez, I was just so humbled and I had a breakthrough. This is more than two minutes what I would like to express about Him but I’m just so grateful for His word. And I’m grateful for His truth. Thank you Holy Spirit. God Bless you all, Amen.

Hello, Daily Audio Bible, it’s your girl Val in Vegas. I just wanna say, Happy Good Friday. It’s Friday the 15th, praise God everyone, we’ve made it. And this weekend ya’ll, He has risen. Right now, I just wanna pray for peace for anyone and everyone listening to this call. I tell ya, as I started to grow my relationship with the Lord, spending more time in prayer, talking to Him on a continuous basis. What I find is, it is true. There is a level of peace that surpasses all understanding. I mean the human mind can’t even grasp it. Admist the trauma and tragedy man, when you are just fully aligned with the Lord, there’s not any firing dart that comes to you, that the Lord doesn’t give you peace about it. And we know at the end of the day, what our Father does, is make crooked roads straight. So right now, Heavenly Father, I want to pray for Your peace Lord, for anyone that’s listening to this call, God right now rain on em, peace Lord, peace, peace, peace. Oh, it is truly priceless, Lord God. We thank You Lord Jesus, for Your peace God. One of your final words, my peace I bequeath, I give to you my peace. Lord Jesus, we take that peace, we run with that peace, we walk with that peace, we crawl with that peace. Lord Jesus, thank You for that peace, Lord. The peace that surpasses all understanding, right now God, rain peace on your family, Lord Jesus. Happy Good Friday. I love you guys and I’ll see you next month.

Yes, I want to take on the name, To God be the Glory in Minnesota. This is my first time calling in and I need prayer for my brother-in-law. His name is Nick. My sister and her two children live in Montana. And he is dealing with some issues at work, drug related. Doesn’t help his mood or his drinking. He is an alcoholic and he tends to be even more of a bad mood when he purchasing. So, if my DAB family could help me in praying for my brother-in-law, Nick, my sisters names Valerie and then she has her two children, Madison and Isabel. And that the Lord will work in mysterious ways and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit and know that Satan is trying to control him by his drinking. Thank you, I appreciate this family greatly. And for the blessings that Brian and his family has taken on. So, just thank you for everything again. To God be the Glory in Minnesota. Thanks.

Hey family, this is James in Fort Worth, Texas. It’s been a minute. I think the last time that I called was right around the same time last year for my daughters Ryan’s birthday. To those of you who don’t know, Ryan passed away January of 2020 from a severe asthma attack. That’s where I can describe my mental state at that time was just, pure insanity. I felt like I was going in sane. Nothing made sense. How can a father, raise his family, you know, support his family and raise his kids and I couldn’t save the one who looked to me in a moment of life and death? I wanted God’s power; I couldn’t save her. And I was angry with myself, I hated myself, I hated all of myself, I hated looking in the mirror. But I’m gonna tell you what, God’s delivered me from that. You can’t have refined goals without first going through the fire. And I went through that fire. And I praise the Lord and thank Him for bringing me on the other side of that. I look at today, I’m not the same person that I was, you know. I’ve been going strong in the word for the last two years trying to become the man that He meant me to be. I want to thank the Lord for my beautiful wife, Camille. The pure definition of one flesh. I want to thank Camille for sticking with me during the time that I obviously wouldn’t at my best. And I praise the Lord for her. We both DABers now. We both study the word together. There are so many of you that encouraged me on a daily basis. Thank you Brian and the Hardin Family, Victorious Soldier, Blind Tony, Little Sharie in Canada, Val in Vega, Sparky, Renzo – brother keep doing what you’re doing. I pray for all of you and I’m blessed to be in this community. Praise the Lord and thank you

Hey DAB brothers and sisters, this is Byron out in Florida. To Karen in New York, I heard your call. First of all, I just want to praise God for delivering you from the grip of alcohol, as a coping mechanism. I’m very thankful for what He’s been able to do in your life. Because it obviously directly impacts so many other, especially our most vulnerable. As the father of a special needs child, I can understand the challenges. I face people who step up to serve those kids who may be passed over by others. And this little boy that you mentioned, I want life him up specifically Lord. Because you’re right, he needs love, he needs grace, he needs mercy, he needs to be protected and not discarded or ignored or pushed aside or controlled Lord. He needs Your grace and mercy and I thank you Lord, that You have empowered Karen to serve this young man and to help him Lord. And so, give her the wisdom Lord, that she needs to approach him. Give her the understanding of Your child to relate to him. And raise up others, who can come around this little boy and get him to where he needs to be in You. Because he’s Your child. We saw what You did to the maniac that everyone had discarded and left in the tomb Lord. And we call back this boy to You, to Your family, to Your love and to Your heart. And so, we pray a protection, a blessing hedge around Karen and him and family. In Jesus name, Amen.

April 19, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday April 19, 2022 (NIV)

Joshua 19-20

The Land Given to Simeon

19 The second allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Simeon. Their homeland was surrounded by Judah’s territory.

²Simeon’s homeland included Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah, ³Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem, ⁴Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, ⁵Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah, ⁶Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen towns with their surrounding villages. ⁷It also included Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four towns with their villages, ⁸including all the surrounding villages as far south as Baalath-beer (also known as Ramah of the Negev).

This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Simeon. ⁹Their allocation of land came from part of what had been given to Judah because Judah’s territory was too large for them. So the tribe of Simeon received an allocation within the territory of Judah.

The Land Given to Zebulun

¹⁰The third allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Zebulun.

The boundary of Zebulun’s homeland started at Sarid. ¹¹From there it went west, going past Maralah, touching Dabbesheth, and proceeding to the brook east of Jokneam. ¹²In the other direction, the boundary went east from Sarid to the border of Kisloth-tabor, and from there to Daberath and up to Japhia. ¹³Then it continued east to Gath-hepher, Eth-kazin, and Rimmon and turned toward Neah. ¹⁴The northern boundary of Zebulun passed Hannathon and ended at the valley of Iphtah-el. ¹⁵The towns in these areas included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve towns with their surrounding villages.

¹⁶The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Zebulun included these towns and their surrounding villages.

The Land Given to Issachar

¹⁷The fourth allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Issachar.

¹⁸Its boundaries included the following towns: Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem, ¹⁹Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, ²⁰Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, ²¹Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez. ²²The boundary also touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, ending at the Jordan River—sixteen towns with their surrounding villages.

²³The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Issachar included these towns and their surrounding villages.

The Land Given to Asher

²⁴The fifth allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Asher.

²⁵Its boundaries included these towns: Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph, ²⁶Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The boundary on the west touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath, ²⁷then it turned east toward Beth-dagon, and ran as far as Zebulun in the valley of Iphtah-el, going north to Beth-emek and Neiel. It then continued north to Cabul, ²⁸Abdon,^[a] Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, and as far as Greater Sidon. ²⁹Then the boundary turned toward Ramah and the fortress of Tyre, where it turned toward Hosah and came to the Mediterranean Sea.^[b] The territory also included Mehebel, Aczib, ³⁰Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob—twenty-two towns with their surrounding villages.

³¹The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Asher included these towns and their surrounding villages.

The Land Given to Naphtali

³²The sixth allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Naphtali.

³³Its boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak at Zaanannim, and extended across to Adami-nekeb, Jabneel, and as far as Lakkum, ending at the Jordan River. ³⁴The western boundary ran past Aznoth-tabor, then to Hukkok, and touched the border of Zebulun in the south, the border of Asher on the west, and the Jordan River^[c] on the east. ³⁵The fortified towns included in this territory were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth, ³⁶Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, ³⁷Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor, ³⁸Yiron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh—nineteen towns with their surrounding villages.

³⁹The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Naphtali included these towns and their surrounding villages.

The Land Given to Dan

⁴⁰The seventh allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Dan.

⁴¹The land allocated as their homeland included the following towns: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh, ⁴²Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, ⁴³Elon, Timnah, Ekron, ⁴⁴Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, ⁴⁵Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon, ⁴⁶Me-jarkon, Rakkon, and the territory across from Joppa.

⁴⁷But the tribe of Dan had trouble taking possession of their land,^[d] so they attacked the town of Laish.^[e] They captured it, slaughtered its people, and settled there. They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor.

⁴⁸The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Dan included these towns and their surrounding villages.

The Land Given to Joshua

⁴⁹After all the land was divided among the tribes, the Israelites gave a piece of land to Joshua as his allocation. ⁵⁰For the Lord had said he could have any town he wanted. He chose Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. He rebuilt the town and lived there.

⁵¹These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the tribal leaders allocated as grants of land to the tribes of Israel by casting sacred lots in the presence of the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle^[f] at Shiloh. So the division of the land was completed.

The Cities of Refuge

20 The Lord said to Joshua, ²“Now tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed Moses. ³Anyone who kills another person accidentally and unintentionally can run to one of these cities; they will be places of refuge from relatives seeking revenge for the person who was killed.

⁴“Upon reaching one of these cities, the one who caused the death will appear before the elders at the city gate and present his case. They must allow him to enter the city and give him a place to live among them. ⁵If the relatives of the victim come to avenge the killing, the leaders must not release the slayer to them, for he killed the other person unintentionally and without previous hostility. ⁶But the slayer must stay in that city and be tried by the local assembly, which will render a judgment. And he must continue to live in that city until the death of the high priest who was in office at the time of the accident. After that, he is free to return to his own home in the town from which he fled.”

⁷The following cities were designated as cities of refuge: Kedesh of Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah. ⁸On the east side of the Jordan River, across from Jericho, the following cities were designated: Bezer, in the wilderness plain of the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead, in the territory of the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, in the land of the tribe of Manasseh. ⁹These cities were set apart for all the Israelites as well as the foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed another person could take refuge in one of these cities. In this way, they could escape being killed in revenge prior to standing trial before the local assembly.

Footnotes:

19:28 As in some Hebrew manuscripts (see also 21:30); most Hebrew manuscripts read Ebron.
19:29 Hebrew the sea.
19:34 Hebrew and Judah at the Jordan River.
19:47a Or had trouble holding on to their land.
19:47b Hebrew Leshem, a variant spelling of Laish.
19:51 Hebrew Tent of Meeting.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Luke 19:28-48

Jesus’ Triumphant Entry

²⁸After telling this story, Jesus went on toward Jerusalem, walking ahead of his disciples. ²⁹As he came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead. ³⁰“Go into that village over there,” he told them. “As you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. ³¹If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying that colt?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

³²So they went and found the colt, just as Jesus had said. ³³And sure enough, as they were untying it, the owners asked them, “Why are you untying that colt?”

³⁴And the disciples simply replied, “The Lord needs it.” ³⁵So they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it for him to ride on.

³⁶As he rode along, the crowds spread out their garments on the road ahead of him. ³⁷When he reached the place where the road started down the Mount of Olives, all of his followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen.

³⁸“Blessings on the King who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven, and glory in highest heaven!”^[a]

³⁹But some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, “Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying things like that!”

⁴⁰He replied, “If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!”

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

⁴¹But as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead, he began to weep. ⁴²“How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes. ⁴³Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side. ⁴⁴They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you.^[b]”

Jesus Clears the Temple

⁴⁵Then Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people selling animals for sacrifices. ⁴⁶He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”^[c]

⁴⁷After that, he taught daily in the Temple, but the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the other leaders of the people began planning how to kill him. ⁴⁸But they could think of nothing, because all the people hung on every word he said.

Footnotes:

19:38 Pss 118:26; 148:1.
19:44 Greek did not recognize the time of your visitation, a reference to the Messiah’s coming.
19:46 Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 88

For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. A song to be sung to the tune “The Suffering of Affliction.” A psalm^[a] of Heman the Ezrahite.

¹O Lord, God of my salvation,
I cry out to you by day.
I come to you at night.
²Now hear my prayer;
listen to my cry.
³For my life is full of troubles,
and death^[b] draws near.
⁴I am as good as dead,
like a strong man with no strength left.
⁵They have left me among the dead,
and I lie like a corpse in a grave.
I am forgotten,
cut off from your care.
⁶You have thrown me into the lowest pit,
into the darkest depths.
⁷Your anger weighs me down;
with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude

⁸You have driven my friends away
by making me repulsive to them.
I am in a trap with no way of escape.
⁹My eyes are blinded by my tears.
Each day I beg for your help, O Lord;
I lift my hands to you for mercy.
¹⁰Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead?
Do the dead rise up and praise you? Interlude

¹¹Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love?
Can they proclaim your faithfulness in the place of destruction?^[c]
¹²Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds?
Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?
¹³O Lord, I cry out to you.
I will keep on pleading day by day.
¹⁴O Lord, why do you reject me?
Why do you turn your face from me?

¹⁵I have been sick and close to death since my youth.
I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.
¹⁶Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me.
Your terrors have paralyzed me.
¹⁷They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long.
They have engulfed me completely.
¹⁸You have taken away my companions and loved ones.
Darkness is my closest friend.

Footnotes:

88:Title Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
88:3 Hebrew Sheol.
88:11 Hebrew in Abaddon?

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 13:12-14

¹²Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.

¹³People who despise advice are asking for trouble;
those who respect a command will succeed.

¹⁴The instruction of the wise is like a life-giving fountain;
those who accept it avoid the snares of death.

New Living Translation (NLT)

April 18, 2022

04/18/2022 DAB Transcript

Joshua 16:1-18:28, Luke 19:1-27, Psalms 87:1-7, Proverbs 13:11

Today is the 18^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you probably still kind of basking in Easter celebrations yesterday and being together with family maybe, friends. And every time we come to the first part of a new week we talk about it being a fresh start. We’re walking in. We’re gonna live the lives that we live and tell the story of the week. If there was ever a fresh start it’s like right now. Understanding that we are free and that our Easter celebrations tell us the story of walls being torn down between humanity and God and that we can freely come into His presence knowing that we are loved. And, so, it is a great week to live into as we continue our journey which will lead us in the Scriptures back into the book of Joshua. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Joshua 16, 17 and 18 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the Gospel of Luke today we have a really really famous Sunday school story. The short man, Zacchaeus climbing the sycamore tree to see what he could see and Jesus passing by. Super well-known story. So, let’s look at this story. We probably all kinda know the story. It’s pretty short. But let’s look for the kingdom of God in this story. So, Zacchaeus is a tax collector and his fellow Hebrew people despise him. They despise all tax collectors. For them for the most part the tax collectors that they would deal with were fellow Hebrew people working on behalf of an appointed tax collector on behalf of the Roman government. So, to be able to tax collect on behalf of the Empire required significant investment of money into the Empire to get the license or the right to collect taxes. And those were usually Roman people, or wealthy Hebrew people who would subsequently hire other Hebrew people to go out into the villages and be the tough man and collect the taxes. And, so, tax collection. People hated that and they hated those people and they hated the Hebrew people who were involved because it was like they were taking advantage of their own brothers and sisters, their own people for their own selfish gain on behalf of the Roman Empire. And, so, the people didn’t like them, and the religious leaders considered them sinners for the taking advantage of their own people. There’s just all of this swirling around. And yet these tax collectors had money, had resources, could buy influence. It’s like a very very convoluted thing. And Zacchaeus was one of the wealthy tax collectors. He had been at this for a while, had resources and he wants to see Jesus. Jesus calls them down from the tree and goes to his house, which causes an uproar or just quoting from Luke, “the people were displeased. He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner, they grumbled.” So, this good man Jesus is doing the things that the people are like, good men, godly men wouldn’t do those things. Godly men wouldn’t fraternize with tax collectors. This is a notorious sinner. So, they’re looking at that as an argument against Jesus. Meanwhile, inside Zacchaeus’s house Zacchaeus is saying to Jesus, and I quote from the Gospel of Luke, “I will give half my wealth to the poor Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much.” So, where is the kingdom of God being revealed and breaking the fourth in this story, among the people who believe they are the chosen ones, and they will restore the kingdom to God by defeating Rome or in the house of a notorious sinner? And Jesus said and I quote “salvation has come to this home today for this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.” In a story like this one it’s very apparent, like we can see the situation and…and lean into the fact that wherever Jesus is is where the kingdom is. And certainly Zacchaeus is being transformed in the presence of Jesus. This story shows us so much about the world that we live in, and our own hearts posture because we will get ourselves together with, the people that think the same way that we do and we will make ourselves a group that is against others. And, so, it’s very easy for us to be in that position. We’re like, why would Jesus go there? That’s a notorious sinner. Why would the kingdom show up there? That is a den of sin and iniquity. Where else did Jesus ever show up? So, where is Jesus going to show up to reveal His kingdom? It’s goona be in the places that are open to it, the places where people know of their need, can see that they need Jesus. But the people walking around who feel like they own Jesus or have Jesus are the ones typically frowning down upon Jesus’ work among the lowly when that is all He’s ever done. The question is, where are we in this story? Because we can see the kingdom now. Who are we in this story? And that…that can really change things inside of us when we realize how judgmental we can be and how often we can thwart what God might want us to do. So, we’re coming off of Easter and we’re moving forward as we do, because that’s the only way to go. How are we moving forward though? Christ has come for us, even while we were his enemies loving us and restoring and rescuing us. How can…like how can we participate in anything less?

Prayer:

Holy Spirit come into that. This pricks at our prejudice and bias. It pricks at our stories and our wounds and our woundedness and the things that we need to protect and the things that we need to tear down. We have all kinds of opinions on all kinds of things. And, so, often we’re just doing what we’re doing hoping that You’ll bless it when we could be doing what You’re doing, and You will bless it. And what You have always done is rescued the one who needed rescuing. And, so, help us to remember that because that was us. We were that person. We must go and do likewise. Show us how Jesus we pray. In Your mighty name we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

This is Freedom Fighter from Michigan in America and just asking for prayer for our daughter or Cami. She’s decided to live the life of the prodigal son. And she’s 21 years old. She moved out of our home about a year ago and I think she’s still kind of angry and bitter at God and…for how her life story began. She was neglected for a couple years in Russia before she was sent to an orphanage where she spent a couple years. And that’s where God rescued her and sent her to us. But unfortunately, she still holds a lot of anger bitterness just as to how her life story began. And she’s not being able to see the redemption side of it. And…and she’s taken that, and she’s moved out and she’s pursued the world and she's…she’s trying to find the happiness there but now she’s really just…just living a broken lifestyle. She’s been evicted from her apartment. All of her earthly possessions are in a storage unit of which she’s being foreclosed on. She finds herself living on a couch in her boyfriend’s house with a dysfunctional family that. And it’s just she's…she’s living the life in the pig pen and it’s just breaking our hearts. So, we just pray that…that she’ll see God pursuing her, that…we’ve prayed that God would bring her to whatever it takes to win her back to you or to her to Him. And…and then I just pray that you’ll give us the patience to accept her back when she does turn to come home, that we’ll still be able to kill the fatted calf and receive her back into our arms with an open heart. So, pray for Cami.

Good morning DAB community my DAB family. my name is Geneva Thirsty for His Grace from Orlando FL. Today is April 14^th, 2022. I just finished listening to today’s podcast with Brian. And Brian thank you for that powerful read from the word of God in Luke, that we are ordinary servants. Jesus owes us nothing. I have done my duty. Thank you for that. As I continue to journey and share during this passion week on this Maudie Thursday may we prepare our heart in the dark shadows of Good Friday and the bright dawn of Easter Sunday. Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane today on the darkest and most difficult night of his life. Gethsemane, family means olive press. Let us press into prayer. Abba Father You know that we would give almost anything for an easier less painful life. Help us to relinquish our will to Your will today. Father there are so many parts of this world are overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death today. As we remember particular people and places before You now every person on this prayer line, I pray that they will somehow know Your presence is with them and their suffering. Father if it’s possible please spare each of us from suffering. We want You to bless us, heal us, show us Your favor Father God. But we realize that You never promised us an easy life. And, so, we pray today sincerely as we know how let Your will be done. If it’s not our will, let Your will be done and Your Kingdom come. If it means sacrificing own discomfort our own comfort and losing control of our life. In Jesus’ name I ask. Amen. Be blessed fam…

[singing starts] it only takes a spark to get a fire going and soon all those around can warm up in its glowing. That’s how it is with God’s love once you’ve experienced it you spread God’s love to everyone you want to pass it on [singing stops]. Hey Sparky I was just listening to the DAB and I heard you and immediately this song came to mind. I think of you as a…as a glowing spark that is being transmitted to others. But here you are today, you’re feeling down in the dumps and you’re getting into a bit of depression. Your sons are getting older and so they don’t want to have anything to do have…to do with you right now. And I remember that so well. I had an only child, and we were great friends until she got to the teenage years. Her friends were more important than me. I know how sad it was. I cried. I thought we’ll never be the same. You know what? She grew up. She got married. She had her own kids. We are the best of friends. So, you and your sons, your relationship continues despite what it may seem. Abba Father I left Sparky to the throne of grace. I pray that You’d wrap Your arms around about him and draw him close. I pray in the new Jesus over any dark depression that’s wanting to come up on him. I pray that he would have life again and just sparkle for all the world to see, all those around him would see. I pray that whatever’s keeping him down will be removed and the name of…

Hello DAB family this is Daniel the Wholehearted calling from Maryland. Just had a quick story and a prayer request. My quick story is, the other day I got a robo-call from Spring Hill TN and I picked up the phone and was like, Brian? ‘Cause I thought that maybe Brian Hardin from Spring Hill TN was calling me. Brian, just wanna let you know it warmed my heart to think you might be calling me and it definitely warms my heart to hear you read and to talk about the scriptures with us. Appreciate what you’re doing. We keep on praying for you and just appreciate everything that your family’s doing. The prayer request is, I’ve got this car, I got a Ford Explorer that is the worst truck ever. It just breaks down all the time. And it broke down on my wife today picking up my son from school. And, so, I met the…I went to go meet the tow truck driver and turns out it was working when I got there. And I said, well I’m not gonna cancel the tow truck. I’m gonna still have the tow truck come because I don’t want to stop working on my way home. So, tow truck shows up and Ernest is driving it and Ernest is sharing with me while he’s a loading up the truck, sharing with me all these times that he’s almost died doing his job. And after about third or fourth time I said, Ernest do you believe in God? He said, well I want to, but it’s been hard. It’s been hard since my mom died. And we talked about that, how she died from cancer. And he…I told him about the DAB, said it’s a place where the bible’s read fresh every day. It’s a place where people pray. He said, well if you’re gonna pray, pray for my ex-girlfriend Jessica. She’s addicted to heroin and I can’t stand just watching her die. And, so, we prayed…I said let’s pray right now. And we prayed. I prayed for him and I prayed for Jessica and when we were done he said that’s the first time I prayed since I lost my mom. So, let’s pray for both of them right now. And I ask you to pray with me. God, I pray for Ernest. I pray you’d give him everything he needs to be the man of God you want him to be. I pray for Jessica, that you free her from heroin, that you give her a new mind in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Good morning DAB family this is Jimmy from the East Coast. I’m just calling to pray for some of the DABbers. I wanted to first mention Christy from Kentucky. I hear you. My heart goes out to all those who lose family members right now and are…are just…just feeling the pain. I am praying for you and…and I know it stays a long time, especially if you’re a deep…deep feeler. So, I’m praying for you guys. I wouldn’t pray for Robbie. Robbie, I…I hear you brother. I’ve been there. I am there. That’s my life. I…I've…sometimes it feels like DID dissociative identity disorder. It’s like you want to do well and you are doing well sometimes. And then you you’re just…if people just see behind the curtain. You know, I said exactly what you said just a week ago. I…God is good, but I don’t represent Him well. And a lot of that has to do with how I feel. So, just know I’m praying for you and it’s coming. And just keep…God hears you. He’ll meet you where you are. I’m praying also for Erin. Keep…keep fighting. I’m glad you’re standing up. And God…God will keep you straight, keep you walking straight. And we’re praying for you. I love you guys.

April 18, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday April 18, 2022 (NIV)

Joshua 16-18

The Land Given to Ephraim and West Manasseh

16 The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan River near Jericho, east of the springs of Jericho, through the wilderness and into the hill country of Bethel. ²From Bethel (that is, Luz)^[a] it ran over to Ataroth in the territory of the Arkites. ³Then it descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer and over to the Mediterranean Sea.^[b]

⁴This was the homeland allocated to the families of Joseph’s sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

The Land Given to Ephraim

⁵The following territory was given to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim.

The boundary of their homeland began at Ataroth-addar in the east. From there it ran to Upper Beth-horon, ⁶then on to the Mediterranean Sea. From Micmethath on the north, the boundary curved eastward past Taanath-shiloh to the east of Janoah. ⁷From Janoah it turned southward to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho, and ended at the Jordan River. ⁸From Tappuah the boundary extended westward, following the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea. This is the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim.

⁹In addition, some towns with their surrounding villages in the territory allocated to the half-tribe of Manasseh were set aside for the tribe of Ephraim. ¹⁰They did not drive the Canaanites out of Gezer, however, so the people of Gezer live as slaves among the people of Ephraim to this day.

The Land Given to West Manasseh

17 The next allotment of land was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the descendants of Joseph’s older son. Makir, the firstborn son of Manasseh, was the father of Gilead. Because his descendants were experienced soldiers, the regions of Gilead and Bashan on the east side of the Jordan had already been given to them. ²So the allotment on the west side of the Jordan was for the remaining families within the clans of the tribe of Manasseh: Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These clans represent the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph.

³However, Zelophehad, a descendant of Hepher son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons. He had only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ⁴These women came to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite leaders and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us a grant of land along with the men of our tribe.”

So Joshua gave them a grant of land along with their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. ⁵As a result, Manasseh’s total allocation came to ten parcels of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan across the Jordan River, ⁶because the female descendants of Manasseh received a grant of land along with the male descendants. (The land of Gilead was given to the rest of the male descendants of Manasseh.)

⁷The boundary of the tribe of Manasseh extended from the border of Asher to Micmethath, near Shechem. Then the boundary went south from Micmethath to the settlement near the spring of Tappuah. ⁸The land surrounding Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah itself, on the border of Manasseh’s territory, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim. ⁹From the spring of Tappuah, the boundary of Manasseh followed the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea.^[c] Several towns south of the ravine were inside Manasseh’s territory, but they actually belonged to the tribe of Ephraim. ¹⁰In general, however, the land south of the ravine belonged to Ephraim, and the land north of the ravine belonged to Manasseh. Manasseh’s boundary ran along the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. North of Manasseh was the territory of Asher, and to the east was the territory of Issachar.

¹¹The following towns within the territory of Issachar and Asher, however, were given to Manasseh: Beth-shan,^[d] Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphoth-dor),^[e] Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.

¹²But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these towns because the Canaanites were determined to stay in that region. ¹³Later, however, when the Israelites became strong enough, they forced the Canaanites to work as slaves. But they did not drive them out of the land.

¹⁴The descendants of Joseph came to Joshua and asked, “Why have you given us only one portion of land as our homeland when the Lord has blessed us with so many people?”

¹⁵Joshua replied, “If there are so many of you, and if the hill country of Ephraim is not large enough for you, clear out land for yourselves in the forest where the Perizzites and Rephaites live.”

¹⁶The descendants of Joseph responded, “It’s true that the hill country is not large enough for us. But all the Canaanites in the lowlands have iron chariots, both those in Beth-shan and its surrounding settlements and those in the valley of Jezreel. They are too strong for us.”

¹⁷Then Joshua said to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, the descendants of Joseph, “Since you are so large and strong, you will be given more than one portion. ¹⁸The forests of the hill country will be yours as well. Clear as much of the land as you wish, and take possession of its farthest corners. And you will drive out the Canaanites from the valleys, too, even though they are strong and have iron chariots.”

The Allotments of the Remaining Land

18 Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.^[f] ²But there remained seven tribes who had not yet been allotted their grants of land.

³Then Joshua asked them, “How long are you going to wait before taking possession of the remaining land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given to you? ⁴Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to explore the land and map it out. They will then return to me with a written report of their proposed divisions of their new homeland. ⁵Let them divide the land into seven sections, excluding Judah’s territory in the south and Joseph’s territory in the north. ⁶And when you record the seven divisions of the land and bring them to me, I will cast sacred lots in the presence of the Lord our God to assign land to each tribe.

⁷“The Levites, however, will not receive any allotment of land. Their role as priests of the Lord is their allotment. And the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh won’t receive any more land, for they have already received their grant of land, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them on the east side of the Jordan River.”

⁸As the men started on their way to map out the land, Joshua commanded them, “Go and explore the land and write a description of it. Then return to me, and I will assign the land to the tribes by casting sacred lots here in the presence of the Lord at Shiloh.” ⁹The men did as they were told and mapped the entire territory into seven sections, listing the towns in each section. They made a written record and then returned to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh. ¹⁰And there at Shiloh, Joshua cast sacred lots in the presence of the Lord to determine which tribe should have each section.

The Land Given to Benjamin

¹¹The first allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin. It lay between the territory assigned to the tribes of Judah and Joseph.

¹²The northern boundary of Benjamin’s land began at the Jordan River, went north of the slope of Jericho, then west through the hill country and the wilderness of Beth-aven. ¹³From there the boundary went south to Luz (that is, Bethel) and proceeded down to Ataroth-addar on the hill that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.

¹⁴The boundary then made a turn and swung south along the western edge of the hill facing Beth-horon, ending at the village of Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a town belonging to the tribe of Judah. This was the western boundary.

¹⁵The southern boundary began at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. From that western point it ran^[g] to the spring at the waters of Nephtoah,^[h] ¹⁶and down to the base of the mountain beside the valley of Ben-Hinnom, at the northern end of the valley of Rephaim. From there it went down the valley of Hinnom, crossing south of the slope where the Jebusites lived, and continued down to En-rogel. ¹⁷From En-rogel the boundary proceeded in a northerly direction and came to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth (which is across from the slopes of Adummim). Then it went down to the Stone of Bohan. (Bohan was Reuben’s son.) ¹⁸From there it passed along the north side of the slope overlooking the Jordan Valley.^[i] The border then went down into the valley, ¹⁹ran past the north slope of Beth-hoglah, and ended at the north bay of the Dead Sea,^[j] which is the southern end of the Jordan River. This was the southern boundary.

²⁰The eastern boundary was the Jordan River.

These were the boundaries of the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

The Towns Given to Benjamin

²¹These were the towns given to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz, ²²Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, ²³Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, ²⁴Kephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve towns with their surrounding villages. ²⁵Also Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, ²⁶Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah, ²⁷Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, ²⁸Zela, Haeleph, the Jebusite town (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim^[k]—fourteen towns with their surrounding villages.

This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

Footnotes:

16:2 As in Greek version (also see 18:13); Hebrew reads From Bethel to Luz.
16:3 Hebrew the sea; also in 16:6, 8.
17:9 Hebrew the sea; also in 17:10.
17:11a Hebrew Beth-shean, a variant spelling of Beth-shan; also in 17:16.
17:11b The meaning of the Hebrew here is uncertain.
18:1 Hebrew Tent of Meeting.
18:15a Or From there it went to Mozah. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
18:15b Or the spring at Me-nephtoah.
18:18 Hebrew overlooking the Arabah, or overlooking Beth-arabah.
18:19 Hebrew Salt Sea.
18:28 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads Kiriath.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Luke 19:1-27

Jesus and Zacchaeus

19 Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. ²There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. ³He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. ⁴So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way.

⁵When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” he said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.”

⁶Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy. ⁷But the people were displeased. “He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,” they grumbled.

⁸Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, “I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!”

⁹Jesus responded, “Salvation has come to this home today, for this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham. ¹⁰For the Son of Man^[a] came to seek and save those who are lost.”

Parable of the Ten Servants

¹¹The crowd was listening to everything Jesus said. And because he was nearing Jerusalem, he told them a story to correct the impression that the Kingdom of God would begin right away. ¹²He said, “A nobleman was called away to a distant empire to be crowned king and then return. ¹³Before he left, he called together ten of his servants and divided among them ten pounds of silver,^[b] saying, ‘Invest this for me while I am gone.’ ¹⁴But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’

¹⁵“After he was crowned king, he returned and called in the servants to whom he had given the money. He wanted to find out what their profits were. ¹⁶The first servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made ten times the original amount!’

¹⁷“‘Well done!’ the king exclaimed. ‘You are a good servant. You have been faithful with the little I entrusted to you, so you will be governor of ten cities as your reward.’

¹⁸“The next servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made five times the original amount.’

¹⁹“‘Well done!’ the king said. ‘You will be governor over five cities.’

²⁰“But the third servant brought back only the original amount of money and said, ‘Master, I hid your money and kept it safe. ²¹I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn’t yours and harvesting crops you didn’t plant.’

²²“‘You wicked servant!’ the king roared. ‘Your own words condemn you. If you knew that I’m a hard man who takes what isn’t mine and harvests crops I didn’t plant, ²³why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’

²⁴“Then, turning to the others standing nearby, the king ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’

²⁵“‘But, master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten pounds!’

²⁶“‘Yes,’ the king replied, ‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. ²⁷And as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in front of me.’”

Footnotes:

19:10 “Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for himself.
19:13 Greek ten minas; one mina was worth about three months’ wages.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 87

A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korah.

¹On the holy mountain
stands the city founded by the Lord.
²He loves the city of Jerusalem
more than any other city in Israel.^[a]
³O city of God,
what glorious things are said of you! Interlude

⁴I will count Egypt^[b] and Babylon among those who know me—
also Philistia and Tyre, and even distant Ethiopia.^[c]
They have all become citizens of Jerusalem!
⁵Regarding Jerusalem^[d] it will be said,
“Everyone enjoys the rights of citizenship there.”
And the Most High will personally bless this city.
⁶When the Lord registers the nations, he will say,
“They have all become citizens of Jerusalem.” Interlude

⁷The people will play flutes^[e] and sing,
“The source of my life springs from Jerusalem!”

Footnotes:

87:2 Hebrew He loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. See note on 44:4.
87:4a Hebrew Rahab, the name of a mythical sea monster that represents chaos in ancient literature. The name is used here as a poetic name for Egypt.
87:4b Hebrew Cush.
87:5 Hebrew Zion.
87:7 Or will dance.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 13:11

¹¹Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears;
wealth from hard work grows over time.

New Living Translation (NLT)

April 17, 2022

4/17/2022 DAB Transcript

Josh 15:1-63, Luke 18:18-43, Ps 86:1-17, Pr 13:9-10

Today is the 17th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and I love it that we can be around the Global Campfire today, on this most holiest of days that we commemorate the resurrection. This day is the game changer of all, this day changes everything, everywhere. So, rejoice with me, my brothers and sisters. He is risen!

Song: Easter Song by Encores – https://apple.co/35DZd3f

So, it’s Easter Sunday, which means it’s the beginning of the week means we will read from a new translation this week, the New Living Translation. And of course, we’re picking up right where we left off, so that we can take the next step forward together, that leads us back into the book of Joshua, today, chapter 15.

Commentary/Prayer:

Okay so, on this Easter morning, afternoon, evening, this resurrection Sunday, where we celebrate that Jesus didn’t stay in the tomb, we read from the Gospel of Luke, from our reading today. Taking the 12 disciples aside, Jesus said listen, we’re going up to Jerusalem where all the predictions of the prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true. You will be handed over to the Romans and He will be mocked, treated shamefully and spit upon, they will flog Him with the whip and kill Him. But on the third day, He will rise again. So, Jesus that is a very, very short encapsulation of what we’ve been contemplating and carrying in our hearts over the last several days, trying to come face-to-face with what it cost to set us free and what our lives should look like in response. And the depth and breadth of love that…that would do such a thing is beyond our comprehension really, beyond our language, really beyond anything we can know or understand, for You are the Lord. But You have loved us, You have loved us where ever we have been, near or far, high or low, You have loved us and You have come to set us free. And so, with deep gratitude we thank You, knowing that we should be deeply challenged at the way that we conduct ourselves, knowing that we, who have believed, our living signposts to this truth and what we say with our lives is what that signpost is saying. Come, Holy Spirit, You have set us free. We are free indeed. May we walk forward into our salvation, may we share the good news wherever we stand, by the very force of our lives, which is Your life within. We pray this, in the name of the risen Christ. Amen.

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April 17, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday April 17, 2022 (NIV)

Joshua 15

The Land Given to the Tribe of Judah

15 The allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah reached southward to the border of Edom, as far south as the wilderness of Zin.

²The southern boundary began at the south bay of the Dead Sea,^[a] ³ran south of Scorpion Pass^[b] into the wilderness of Zin, and then went south of Kadesh-barnea to Hezron. Then it went up to Addar, where it turned toward Karka. ⁴From there it passed to Azmon until it finally reached the Brook of Egypt, which it followed to the Mediterranean Sea.^[c] This was their^[d] southern boundary.

⁵The eastern boundary extended along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan River.

The northern boundary began at the bay where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea, ⁶went up from there to Beth-hoglah, then proceeded north of Beth-arabah to the Stone of Bohan. (Bohan was Reuben’s son.) ⁷From that point it went through the valley of Achor to Debir, turning north toward Gilgal, which is across from the slopes of Adummim on the south side of the valley. From there the boundary extended to the springs at En-shemesh and on to En-rogel. ⁸The boundary then passed through the valley of Ben-Hinnom, along the southern slopes of the Jebusites, where the city of Jerusalem is located. Then it went west to the top of the mountain above the valley of Hinnom, and on up to the northern end of the valley of Rephaim. ⁹From there the boundary extended from the top of the mountain to the spring at the waters of Nephtoah,^[e] and from there to the towns on Mount Ephron. Then it turned toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim). ¹⁰The boundary circled west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passed along to the town of Kesalon on the northern slope of Mount Jearim, and went down to Beth-shemesh and on to Timnah. ¹¹The boundary then proceeded to the slope of the hill north of Ekron, where it turned toward Shikkeron and Mount Baalah. It passed Jabneel and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

¹²The western boundary was the shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea.^[f]

These are the boundaries for the clans of the tribe of Judah.

The Land Given to Caleb

¹³The Lord commanded Joshua to assign some of Judah’s territory to Caleb son of Jephunneh. So Caleb was given the town of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), which had been named after Anak’s ancestor. ¹⁴Caleb drove out the three groups of Anakites—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak.

¹⁵From there he went to fight against the people living in the town of Debir (formerly called Kiriath-sepher). ¹⁶Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher.” ¹⁷Othniel, the son of Caleb’s brother Kenaz, was the one who conquered it, so Acsah became Othniel’s wife.

¹⁸When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him^[g] to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What’s the matter?”

¹⁹She said, “Give me another gift. You have already given me land in the Negev; now please give me springs of water, too.” So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.

The Towns Allotted to Judah

²⁰This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Judah.

²¹The towns of Judah situated along the borders of Edom in the extreme south were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, ²²Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, ²³Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, ²⁴Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, ²⁵Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor), ²⁶Amam, Shema, Moladah, ²⁷Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet, ²⁸Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, ²⁹Baalah, Iim, Ezem, ³⁰Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah, ³¹Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, ³²Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine towns with their surrounding villages.

³³The following towns situated in the western foothills^[h] were also given to Judah: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, ³⁴Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam, ³⁵Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah, ³⁶Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim—fourteen towns with their surrounding villages.

³⁷Also included were Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad, ³⁸Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, ³⁹Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, ⁴⁰Cabbon, Lahmam, Kitlish, ⁴¹Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah—sixteen towns with their surrounding villages.

⁴²Besides these, there were Libnah, Ether, Ashan, ⁴³Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, ⁴⁴Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah—nine towns with their surrounding villages.

⁴⁵The territory of the tribe of Judah also included Ekron and its surrounding settlements and villages. ⁴⁶From Ekron the boundary extended west and included the towns near Ashdod with their surrounding villages. ⁴⁷It also included Ashdod with its surrounding settlements and villages and Gaza with its settlements and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

⁴⁸Judah also received the following towns in the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, ⁴⁹Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir), ⁵⁰Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, ⁵¹Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—eleven towns with their surrounding villages.

⁵²Also included were the towns of Arab, Dumah, Eshan, ⁵³Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah, ⁵⁴Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—nine towns with their surrounding villages.

⁵⁵Besides these, there were Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, ⁵⁶Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, ⁵⁷Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah—ten towns with their surrounding villages.

⁵⁸In addition, there were Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor, ⁵⁹Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon—six towns with their surrounding villages.

⁶⁰There were also Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah—two towns with their surrounding villages.

⁶¹In the wilderness there were the towns of Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah, ⁶²Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six towns with their surrounding villages.

⁶³But the tribe of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites, who lived in the city of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live there among the people of Judah to this day.

Footnotes:

15:2 Hebrew the Salt Sea; also in 15:5.
15:3 Hebrew Akrabbim.
15:4a Hebrew the sea; also in 15:11.
15:4b Hebrew your.
15:9 Or the spring at Me-nephtoah.
15:12 Hebrew the Great Sea; also in 15:47.
15:18 Some Greek manuscripts read he urged her.
15:33 Hebrew the Shephelah.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Luke 18:18-43

The Rich Man

¹⁸Once a religious leader asked Jesus this question: “Good Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?”

¹⁹“Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “Only God is truly good. ²⁰But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not commit adultery. You must not murder. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. Honor your father and mother.’^[a]”

²¹The man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these commandments since I was young.”

²²When Jesus heard his answer, he said, “There is still one thing you haven’t done. Sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

²³But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was very rich.

²⁴When Jesus saw this,^[b] he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God! ²⁵In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”

²⁶Those who heard this said, “Then who in the world can be saved?”

²⁷He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”

²⁸Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.”

²⁹“Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, ³⁰will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.”

Jesus Again Predicts His Death

³¹Taking the twelve disciples aside, Jesus said, “Listen, we’re going up to Jerusalem, where all the predictions of the prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true. ³²He will be handed over to the Romans,^[c] and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon. ³³They will flog him with a whip and kill him, but on the third day he will rise again.”

³⁴But they didn’t understand any of this. The significance of his words was hidden from them, and they failed to grasp what he was talking about.

Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar

³⁵As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind beggar was sitting beside the road. ³⁶When he heard the noise of a crowd going past, he asked what was happening. ³⁷They told him that Jesus the Nazarene^[d] was going by. ³⁸So he began shouting, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

³⁹“Be quiet!” the people in front yelled at him.

But he only shouted louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

⁴⁰When Jesus heard him, he stopped and ordered that the man be brought to him. As the man came near, Jesus asked him, ⁴¹“What do you want me to do for you?”

“Lord,” he said, “I want to see!”

⁴²And Jesus said, “All right, receive your sight! Your faith has healed you.” ⁴³Instantly the man could see, and he followed Jesus, praising God. And all who saw it praised God, too.

Footnotes:

18:20 Exod 20:12-16; Deut 5:16-20.
18:24 Some manuscripts read When Jesus saw how sad the man was.
18:32 Greek the Gentiles.
18:37 Or Jesus of Nazareth.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 86

A prayer of David.

¹Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer;
answer me, for I need your help.
²Protect me, for I am devoted to you.
Save me, for I serve you and trust you.
You are my God.
³Be merciful to me, O Lord,
for I am calling on you constantly.
⁴Give me happiness, O Lord,
for I give myself to you.
⁵O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive,
so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.
⁶Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord;
hear my urgent cry.
⁷I will call to you whenever I’m in trouble,
and you will answer me.

⁸No pagan god is like you, O Lord.
None can do what you do!
⁹All the nations you made
will come and bow before you, Lord;
they will praise your holy name.
¹⁰For you are great and perform wonderful deeds.
You alone are God.

¹¹Teach me your ways, O Lord,
that I may live according to your truth!
Grant me purity of heart,
so that I may honor you.
¹²With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God.
I will give glory to your name forever,
¹³for your love for me is very great.
You have rescued me from the depths of death.^[a]

¹⁴O God, insolent people rise up against me;
a violent gang is trying to kill me.
You mean nothing to them.
¹⁵But you, O Lord,
are a God of compassion and mercy,
slow to get angry
and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.
¹⁶Look down and have mercy on me.
Give your strength to your servant;
save me, the son of your servant.
¹⁷Send me a sign of your favor.
Then those who hate me will be put to shame,
for you, O Lord, help and comfort me.

Footnotes:

86:13 Hebrew of Sheol.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 13:9-10

⁹The life of the godly is full of light and joy,
but the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.

¹⁰Pride leads to conflict;
those who take advice are wise.

New Living Translation (NLT)

April 16, 2022

04/16/2022 DAB Transcript

Joshua 13:1-14:15, Luke 18:1-17, Psalms 85:1-13, Proverbs 13:7-8

Today is the 16^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it’s wonderful to be here with you today on Holy Saturday. This is a day in between great loss and the great rejoicing. Yesterday being Good Friday and the day that we commemorated the death of Jesus, His sacrifice on our behalf. Today is Holy Saturday. It’s that day in between when we…when we think of something very, very difficult. We think of Jesus lying in a tomb. We think of Jesus dead, which is something we very rarely do. But in this day, the day that we’re commemorating here, Jesus was lying in a tomb His body cooling. He was dead. A very stark thought indeed. It's…it’s supposed to be a stark thought. This is the moment where it looked like all hope was lost, but it wasn’t because things are not always as they seem. And, so, for us to sort of focus our hearts in this season, tomorrow of course being resurrection Sunday, Easter Sunday, we want to remain in this posture of fully comprehending what it cost to set us free. And, so, let’s keep that in our hearts as we move throughout this day. And, of course, we come here every day. No matter what is being commemorated or what day it is we’ve come to take the next step forward, gather around the Global Campfire together, squeeze in tight, and let the Scriptures wash over us. So, we’re reading from the Good News translation this week, which is today. Joshua chapters 13 and 14.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word and we thank you for this day, this in between day, this day between death and life, this holy Saturday where we continue to focus on your sacrifice as we commemorated yesterday and long deeply in our soul for hope against hope, that death would be swallowed up in victory. And we know that tomorrow’s coming but it’s just so often that we zoom right there to the celebration when this all commemoration, this whole process is to take our hearts through the journey and allow us to come face-to-face with what it cost. And, so, we are thankful, we are grateful. And as we said yesterday there are no words. It is us living our lives as a living sacrifice, being available to you and your service, that it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives within us. And, so, as we think on these things, Holy Spirit come. Lead our hearts where they should go and allow this season to speak deeply about our reality. We pray this in the precious, precious name of Jesus. Amen.

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April 16, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday April 16, 2022 (NIV)

Joshua 13-14

The Land Still to Be Taken

13 Joshua was now very old. The Lord said to him, “You are very old, but there is still much land to be taken: ²all the territory of Philistia and Geshur, ³as well as all the territory of the Avvim to the south. (The land from the stream Shihor, at the Egyptian border, as far north as the border of Ekron was considered Canaanite; the kings of the Philistines lived at Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.) ⁴There is still all the Canaanite country, and Mearah (which belonged to the Sidonians), as far as Aphek, at the Amorite border; ⁵the land of the Gebalites; all of Lebanon to the east, from Baalgad, which is south of Mount Hermon, to Hamath Pass. ⁶^(A)This includes all the territory of the Sidonians, who live in the hill country between the Lebanon Mountains and Misrephoth Maim. I will drive all these peoples out as the people of Israel advance. You must divide the land among the Israelites, just as I have commanded you to do. ⁷Now then, divide this land among the other nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh, for them to possess as their own.”

The Division of the Territory East of the Jordan

⁸^(B)The tribes of Reuben and Gad and the other half of the tribe of Manasseh had already received the land that Moses, the Lord's servant, had given them; it was on the east side of the Jordan River. ⁹Their territory extended to Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and the city in the middle of that valley and included all of the plateau from Medeba to Dibon. ¹⁰It went as far as the border of Ammon and included all the cities that had been ruled by the Amorite king Sihon, who had ruled at Heshbon. ¹¹It included Gilead, the regions of Geshur and Maacah, all of Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah. ¹²It included the kingdom of Og, the last of the Rephaim, who had ruled at Ashtaroth and Edrei. Moses had defeated these people and driven them out. ¹³However, the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur and Maacah; they still live in Israel.

¹⁴^(C)Moses had given no land to the tribe of Levi. As the Lord had told Moses, they were to receive as their possession a share of the sacrifices burned on the altar to the Lord God of Israel.

The Territory Assigned to Reuben

¹⁵Moses had given a part of the land to the families of the tribe of Reuben as their possession. ¹⁶Their territory extended to Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and the city in the middle of that valley and included all the plateau around Medeba. ¹⁷It included Heshbon and all the cities on the plateau: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baalmeon, ¹⁸Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, ¹⁹Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, ²⁰Bethpeor, the slopes of Mount Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth. ²¹It included all the cities of the plateau and the whole kingdom of the Amorite king Sihon, who had ruled at Heshbon. Moses defeated him, as well as the rulers of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. All of them had ruled the land for King Sihon. ²²Among those whom the people of Israel killed was the fortune teller Balaam son of Beor. ²³The Jordan was the western border of the tribe of Reuben. These were the cities and towns given to the families of the tribe of Reuben as their possession.

The Territory Assigned to Gad

²⁴Moses had also given a part of the land to the families of the tribe of Gad as their possession. ²⁵Their territory included Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, half the land of Ammon as far as Aroer, which is east of Rabbah; ²⁶their land extended from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh and Betonim, from Mahanaim to the border of Lodebar. ²⁷In the Jordan Valley it included Beth Haram, Bethnimrah, Sukkoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of King Sihon of Heshbon. Their western border was the Jordan River as far north as Lake Galilee. ²⁸These were the cities and towns given to the families of the tribe of Gad as their possession.

The Territory Assigned to East Manasseh

²⁹Moses had given a part of the land to the families of half the tribe of Manasseh as their possession. ³⁰Their territory extended to Mahanaim and included all of Bashan—the whole kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, as well as all sixty of the villages of Jair in Bashan. ³¹It included half of Gilead, as well as Ashtaroth and Edrei, the capital cities of Og's kingdom in Bashan. All this was given to half the families descended from Machir son of Manasseh.

³²This is how Moses divided the land east of Jericho and the Jordan when he was in the plains of Moab. ³³^(D)But Moses did not assign any land to the tribe of Levi. He told them that their possession was to be a share of the offerings to the Lord God of Israel.

The Division of the Territory West of the Jordan

14 What follows is an account of how the land of Canaan west of the Jordan was divided among the people of Israel. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the families of the Israelite tribes divided it among the population. ²^(E)As the Lord had commanded Moses, the territories of the nine and one-half tribes west of the Jordan were determined by drawing lots.^[a] ^3-4^(F)Moses had already assigned the land east of the Jordan to the other two and one-half tribes. (The descendants of Joseph were divided into two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.) However, Moses gave the Levites no portion of the territory. Instead, they received cities to live in, with fields for their cattle and flocks. ⁵The people of Israel divided the land as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Hebron Is Given to Caleb

⁶^(G)One day some people from the tribe of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. One of them, Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, “You know what the Lord said in Kadesh Barnea about you and me to Moses, the man of God. ⁷^(H)I was forty years old when the Lord's servant Moses sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out this land. I brought an honest report back to him. ⁸The men who went with me, however, made our people afraid. But I faithfully obeyed the Lord my God. ⁹^(I)Because I did, Moses promised me that my children and I would certainly receive as our possession the land which I walked over. ¹⁰But now, look. It has been forty-five years since the Lord said that to Moses. That was when Israel was going through the desert, and the Lord, as he promised, has kept me alive ever since. Look at me! I am eighty-five years old ¹¹and am just as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out. I am still strong enough for war or for anything else. ¹²Now then, give me the hill country that the Lord promised me on that day when my men and I reported. We told you then that the race of giants called the Anakim were there in large walled cities. Maybe the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, just as the Lord said.”

¹³Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him the city of Hebron as his possession. ¹⁴Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, because he faithfully obeyed the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁵Before this, Hebron was called the city of Arba. (Arba had been the greatest of the Anakim.)

There was now peace in the land.

Footnotes:

Joshua 14:2 This was usually done by using specially marked stones to determine God's will.

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Good News Translation (GNT)

Luke 18:1-17

The Parable of the Widow and the Judge

18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discouraged. ²“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. ³And there was a widow in that same town who kept coming to him and pleading for her rights, saying, ‘Help me against my opponent!’ ⁴For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he said to himself, ‘Even though I don't fear God or respect people, ⁵yet because of all the trouble this widow is giving me, I will see to it that she gets her rights. If I don't, she will keep on coming and finally wear me out!’”

⁶And the Lord continued, “Listen to what that corrupt judge said. ⁷^(A)Now, will God not judge in favor of his own people who cry to him day and night for help? Will he be slow to help them? ⁸I tell you, he will judge in their favor and do it quickly. But will the Son of Man find faith on earth when he comes?”

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

⁹Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. ¹⁰“Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. ¹¹The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed,^[a] ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. ¹²I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’ ¹³^(B)But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’ ¹⁴^(C)I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”

Jesus Blesses Little Children^(D)

¹⁵Some people brought their babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. The disciples saw them and scolded them for doing so, ¹⁶but Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁷Remember this! Whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Footnotes:

Luke 18:11 stood apart by himself and prayed; some manuscripts have stood up and prayed to himself.

Cross references:

Good News Translation (GNT)

Psalm 85

A Prayer for the Nation's Welfare^[a]

85 Lord, you have been merciful to your land;
you have made Israel prosperous again.
²You have forgiven your people's sins
and pardoned all their wrongs.
³You stopped being angry with them
and held back your furious rage.

⁴Bring us back, O God our savior,
and stop being displeased with us!
⁵Will you be angry with us forever?
Will your anger never cease?
⁶Make us strong again,
and we, your people, will praise you.
⁷Show us your constant love, O Lord,
and give us your saving help.

⁸I am listening to what the Lord God is saying;
he promises peace to us, his own people,
if we do not go back to our foolish ways.
⁹Surely he is ready to save those who honor him,
and his saving presence will remain in our land.

¹⁰Love and faithfulness will meet;
righteousness and peace will embrace.
¹¹Human loyalty will reach up from the earth,
and God's righteousness will look down from heaven.
¹²The Lord will make us prosperous,
and our land will produce rich harvests.
¹³Righteousness will go before the Lord
and prepare the path for him.

Footnotes:

Psalm 85:1 HEBREW TITLE: A psalm by the clan of Korah.

Good News Translation (GNT)

Proverbs 13:7-8

⁷Some people pretend to be rich, but have nothing. Others pretend to be poor, but own a fortune.

⁸The rich have to use their money to save their lives, but no one threatens the poor.

Good News Translation (GNT)

April 15, 2022

4/15/2022 DAB Transcript

Joshua 11:1-12:24, Luke 17:11-37, Psalm 84:1-12, Proverbs 13:5-6

Today is the 15th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today, as we take the next step forward on our journey, through the Scriptures today. Of course, it’s Good Friday and it is a Holy day on the Christian calendar, as has been this whole week. This is the day that we commemorate the death, the crucifixion of Jesus. A day like no other day. And so, let’s hold that in our hearts, as we take the next step forward together. So, our next step leads us back into the book of Joshua. We have seen all kinds of drama in the Promised Land. Many kings have aligned themselves against Israel. Many kings have been defeated in the process. We’ll continue the story with Joshua chapters 11 and 12 today.

Commentary:

Alright so, in the book of Joshua today, we continue with the narrative of the conquest of the Promised Land. And so, we are in the Promised Land, which is where we’ll spend most of the rest of the time that we have in the Bible. This is the conquest of the Promised Land. We’ve seen kings gathering together now, for the second time, the kings of the north, the great King’s coming down to simply join forces because Israel has recently come into the land and the land is turning upside down. They are conquering everything. So, all of these remaining kings in the nearby regions from the Jordan River, all the way the Mediterranean Sea, are coming together as one. And as one, they are defeated and all of their cities are conquered. One of the great cities of Hazor is burned by Joshua; this is the only mounded city, so the only like, fortified city burned. The remains of Hazor exist until this very, very day and there is a burn layer in the archaeology showing when this great city was burned and so we can look at these ash, well this kind of layer of ash. Understanding wow, this goes back to this…this detailed explanation in the Book of Joshua to what happened in this city. So, it’s deeply fascinating, as we continue what to watch the emerging kingdom of Israel.

But then in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is talking about the Kingdom of Heaven and what he says today is profound indeed, but monumental in our understanding. So, if we think about the Kingdom of Heaven, a lot of the times we are thinking about something that is yet to come. Something that will eventually be here and it will look like some type of national governance, it will look something like what we understand in governing people. So, this will be the Kingdom of God that will usurp all of the kingdoms of the world and that this is a coming thing and certainly the fullness of all of God’s plans, at least the ones that are out in front of us are a coming thing. This goes to expectations. The people in Jesus’ time did know about a coming Messiah and did expect a coming Messiah and expected that Messiah to bring the Kingdom of God back, to restore Israel to God and boot out all the people that didn’t belong there anymore. So, when Jesus talks about the Kingdom of God, those kinds of expectations are in the fabric of the culture and those same kinds of feelings still exist with us in the world today. We have this expectation that at some point all will be made right and all that’s wrong will be done away with, there is this coming kingdom. It’s just that, that’s not what Jesus says about the Kingdom of God. And so, I want to quote Jesus, understanding what He’s saying, is a game changer. So, I quote from Luke, “Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. His answer was, “The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen. No one will say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’; because the Kingdom of God is within you.”” Within you! Because the Kingdom of God is within you, within you, friends. That’s where the Kingdom of God is. And if it’s a coming Kingdom then that’s where it’s coming and that’s how this whole thing changes. We realize that it is within us. We cultivate it within us, and it spills out. It’s the message Jesus has been giving all along, what is within you, is what matters and what is within you will spill out, into the world. And if the Kingdom of God is within us and spilling out into the world than it is coming, it is being revealed. It is being seen in our lives and not in buildings or power or taxes or the judicial system or whatever. It is within us and when it is being built up within us, it changes everything outside of us, it changes the way that we look at everything. And if we change the way we look at everything, then we are effectively changing our lives, which is what repentance is, to change.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we thank You for Your word in Jesus, on this day. There is no inappropriate day be grateful, but on this day, this Good Friday that we observe. The darkness, the darkness of it all, that Your creation could turn on You and kill You and that Your love is so vast and profound that You would allow it, in order to set us free. That is a mystery beyond our comprehension, a love that is deeper than anything we’ve ever experienced and brings hope, that nothing else can. That You are God and that You have demonstrated Your love for us so profoundly, that everything has changed. The trajectory of the human race is changed because of Your coming. And we pray that we can be involved, that we can walk with You, that we can enjoy this gift of salvation, but enjoy the work of sharing the good news throughout the world. So, we love You, and we thank You and we are grateful. And our words and our thoughts are gonna come up short. It’s our lives, given over to You as a living sacrifice, that is the absolute best we can offer and that is not enough, but it is what we have and You take that and make it something beautiful. And so, we humble ourselves before You, with deep gratitude for Your love for us. We pray this in Your precious name of Jesus. Amen.

Song by Trinity Music and Marty Reardon “Agnus Dei (feat. Jen Reardon) - https://apple.co/3L5wJjm

Jesus, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Have mercy on us. Jesus, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Have mercy on us. Oh, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, oh grant us your peace, oh grant us your peace.
Jesus, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, oh grant us your peace, oh grant us your peace.
Oh, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Have mercy on us.
Have mercy on us. Have mercy on us. Have mercy on us. Have mercy on us.

Joshua 21:1-22:20

The Towns Given to the Levites

The Eastern Tribes Return Home

The Eastern Tribes Build an Altar

Footnotes:

Luke 20:1-26

The Authority of Jesus Challenged

Parable of the Evil Farmers

Taxes for Caesar

Footnotes:

Psalm 89:1-13

Psalm 89

A psalm[a] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 13:15-16

Footnotes:

Joshua 19-20

The Land Given to Simeon

The Land Given to Zebulun

The Land Given to Issachar

The Land Given to Asher

The Land Given to Naphtali

The Land Given to Dan

The Land Given to Joshua

The Cities of Refuge

Footnotes:

Luke 19:28-48

Jesus’ Triumphant Entry

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

Jesus Clears the Temple

Footnotes:

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. A song to be sung to the tune “The Suffering of Affliction.” A psalm[a] of Heman the Ezrahite.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 13:12-14

Joshua 16-18

The Land Given to Ephraim and West Manasseh

The Land Given to Ephraim

The Land Given to West Manasseh

The Allotments of the Remaining Land

The Land Given to Benjamin

The Towns Given to Benjamin

Footnotes:

Luke 19:1-27

Jesus and Zacchaeus

Parable of the Ten Servants

Footnotes:

Psalm 87

Psalm 87

A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korah.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 13:11

Joshua 15

The Land Given to the Tribe of Judah

The Land Given to Caleb

The Towns Allotted to Judah

Footnotes:

Luke 18:18-43

The Rich Man

Jesus Again Predicts His Death

Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar

Footnotes:

Psalm 86

Psalm 86

A prayer of David.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 13:9-10

Joshua 13-14

The Land Still to Be Taken

The Division of the Territory East of the Jordan

The Territory Assigned to Reuben

The Territory Assigned to Gad

The Territory Assigned to East Manasseh

The Division of the Territory West of the Jordan

Hebron Is Given to Caleb

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 18:1-17

The Parable of the Widow and the Judge

A psalm^[a] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. A song to be sung to the tune “The Suffering of Affliction.” A psalm^[a] of Heman the Ezrahite.

Jesus Blesses Little Children^(D)

A Prayer for the Nation's Welfare^[a]