Day 271: Israel's Foreign Wives (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike discusses God’s instruction to the people of Israel not to marry women from foreign lands. He explains why God would provide this instruction and how Ezra reacted when he discovered that many prominent Israelites had not obeyed it. He also identifies the prophecies of Palm Sunday and the thirty pieces of silver found in Zechariah. Today’s readings are Ezra 9-10, Zechariah 9-11, and Proverbs 20:16-19.

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0:00.0	We can't lose our faith the way we lose our car keys. We either give it away or we let it decay
0:06.3	because we don't use it. Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz. And in my new book, Unshakeable,
0:11.8	building a life of virtue in a world of chaos, I tell faith-filled stories that inspire you
0:17.1	to live a life of virtue that flows from the unshakable power of God.
0:21.6	Although we're surrounded by a culture that mocks virtue, we can feed ourselves stories
0:25.6	that really do uphold what is good and promote a virtuous life.
0:29.6	When we live this way, we experience freedom and joy like never before.
0:35.6	It's my prayer that the stories in my book, Unshakeable, will inspire you
0:39.8	to fight the battle for a virtuous life and win through trust in an unshakable God.
0:46.1	Order your copy at ascensionpress.com.
1:01.4	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
1:11.3	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is the 271. We're reading from Ezra, the end of Ezra, the last two chapters, although as we know, that Ezra and Yamaia are the same book. It's all one. But in our Bibles, there are two different books. We're reading Ezra chapter 9 and 10, also Zechariah, chapter 9, 10 and 11. We're getting kind of close to the end of the book of the prophet Zechariah, as well as Proverbs chapter 20 versus 16 through 19. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version of the second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plans, you can follow along and keep track of every day like today.
1:45.1	You can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible any year, and you would know, wow, it's day 271.
1:49.6	This is the last day of the book of Ezra, and we're only reading chapters 9 and 10, that kind of a thing.
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