Today is the first day of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is

wonderful to be here with you today as we greet a brand new shiny sparkly

month and we're just kind of getting going in this brand new week. Today is the

121st day of the year. That's hard to believe. It really does not seem like we've

come so far into the year yet but we have and we got here. How we get everywhere.

Day by day step by step. And so this is our 121st step of the year out of 365

steps. So we are well underway. We began the book of John, the gospel of John

yesterday. So that's where we're situated. At least when we get to the new

testament. But in the Old Testament we are continuing our journey through the

book of Judges which kind of gives us an overview of those who led Israel

between Joshua's death and the emergence of the monarchy of kings in Israel. And

today we will begin the story of one of the more famous judges. His name is

Samson. We're reading from the English standard version this week. And today

Judges, chapters 13 and 14.

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. So the

Lord gave them into the hand the Philistines for 40 years. There was a certain

man of Zora of the tribe of the Danites whose name was Manoa and his wife was

Baron and had no children. And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman inside

her. Behold, you are Baron and have not born children. But you shall conceive and

bear a son. Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink and eat

nothing unclean for behold. You shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall

come upon his head. For the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And

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