Today is the third day of May. Welcome to the daily audio Bible. I'm Brian. It's great to be here with you today as we gather again around the global campfire

Ah, and just, I'm still moving into this new month.

It kind of gets going, doesn't it?

Things, things at times get crazy. It's wonderful to be around the global

campfire together with you and just exhale.

Release it all.

Here we go into the scriptures for another step forward and our next step will lead us back into the

book of judges we're working our way through this this time period and

ancient Israel's existence between when they had these

supreme leaders like Moses and then Joshua who led them into the

promised land and then there was a time period of many centuries

when everybody just did what was right in their own eyes and there was no

supreme leader and judges emerged to help and rule the people and that is

the time period between like Joshua and the time of Israel's first king.

So that's where we are now. We read about the Judge Sampson or the last couple of days.

Worry about Micah today. Judges. of There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

And he said to his mother, the 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you about which you uttered

a curse and also spoke it in my ears. Behold the silver is with me. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son by the Lord. And he restored

the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son to make

a carved image and a metal image now therefore I will restore it to you.

So when he restored the money to his mother,

his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith,

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