Day 116: David and Abigail (2022)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike reflects on the relationship between David and Abigail, and how the Lord calls David to be a better man through Abigail. Where has God put these types of relationships in our lives? Today's readings are 1 Samuel 25 and Psalm 63.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we encounter |
| 0:08.2 | God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:13.5 | Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
| 0:18.0 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 116, |
| 0:23.6 | and today we are reading one chapter from Samuel again, first Samuel chapter 25, |
| 0:28.0 | and the death of Samuel and the rise. Well, the next step in David's life, we're also praying |
| 0:34.4 | from the book of Psalms and we're praying Psalm 53. My goodness, if you want to download your own |
| 0:41.0 | Bible in your reading plan, you can get that at ascensionpress.com such Bible in a year and you |
| 0:45.2 | wouldn't even need me to say this. Yeah, I would know right away. You would know right away that |
| 0:49.2 | we're praying is Psalm 63 to 63 today. Goodness gracious. We're also reading from the revised |
| 0:54.6 | Sandra version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. |
| 0:58.8 | If you want to also subscribe to this podcast, you can. You have my permission to do that. If you'd |
| 1:02.9 | like, once again, as I said, it is day 116, we're reading first Samuel chapter 25, we're praying Psalm 63. |
| 1:12.4 | First Samuel chapter 25, death of Samuel. Now, Samuel died in all Israel assembled and mourned for him, |
| 1:21.1 | and they buried him in his house at Rama. David and Abigail. Then David rose and went down to the |
| 1:28.3 | wilderness of Paran. And there was a man in Maun whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich |
| 1:33.9 | and he had 3000 sheep and a thousand goats. He was sharing his sheep in Carmel. Now, the name of the man |
| 1:39.9 | was Nebal and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful, |
| 1:45.6 | but the man was churlish and he'll behave. He was a calibite. David heard in the wilderness that |
| 1:50.9 | Nebal was sharing his sheep, so David sent 10 young men and David said to the young man, |
| 1:55.6 | go up to Carmel and go to Nebal and greet him in my name. And thus you shall salute him. |
| 2:00.8 | Peace be to you and peace be to your house and peace be to all that you have. |
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