Day 127: Kindness for the House of Saul (2025)

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

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Fr. Mike draws our attention to David's kindness towards the house of Saul, including Jonathan's lame son Mephibosheth. We learn that even though Saul persecuted David, David continued to honor his descendants. Today's readings are 2 Samuel 9, 1 Chronicles 12, and Psalm 28.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,
0:07.5	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:11.0	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.8	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.9	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. Today is day 127. We are reading from 2 Samuel, Chapter 9, and First Chronicles
0:26.5	Chapter 2. We're also praying Psalm 28. I know yesterday was kind of a long episode. So,
0:31.5	shorten it down, I mean, not that we did it on purpose, but it is only three chapters, basically
0:35.8	today. We're reading, as always, from the
0:37.7	translation called Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure
0:42.2	Bible from Ascension. Also, if you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can
0:45.9	visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And if you've not yet subscribed to this podcast,
0:50.3	you can subscribe to this podcast whenever you'd like to subscribe to this podcast. It's
0:55.6	day 127. We're reading 2 Samuel chapter 9, 1st Chronicles chapter 12, and Psalm 28.
1:04.1	The second book of Samuel, chapter 9, David's kindness to Maphibisheth. And David said,
1:10.8	Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
1:16.7	Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David, and the king said to him, are you Ziba?
1:23.3	And he said, your servant is he?
1:25.5	And the king said, is there not still someone of the house of Saul that I may show the kindness of God to him?
1:32.6	Ziva said to the king, there is still a son of Jonathan. He is crippled in his feet.
1:38.2	The king said to him, where is he? And Ziba said to the king, he is in the house of Makir, the son of Amiel at Lodibar.
1:45.3	Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Makir, the son of Amiel at Lodibar.
1:50.2	And Mephisheth, the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and did obeisance.
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