Hi, my name's 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. 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 day 92. When we were reading from Judges chapter 9, 10, and

11, there are three kind of long chapters with some really, well, as all of judges is just an

intense, intense book. It is PG-13. It gets worse, knowing that we've had the first eight chapters of the book of judges, it gets worse. Every chapter is worse than the one before. Just keep that in mind if you have people that you want to, maybe, I don't know, if you want to edit a little bit of what you expose people to when it comes to the Word of God, it is still the Word of God, but it is also a hard word. And it gets harder and harder through the book of judges. We're also reading a happy, happy story. And that is Ruth chapter four. We're concluding the story of Ruth today. We're also praying Psalm 137. As always, the Bible translation that I am using is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition.

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in your podcast app. That is all the announcements today. Once again, Judges 9, 10, and 11, Ruth,

chapter 4 and pray in Psalm 137. The book of Judges, Chapter 9, Abimelech tries to establish a monarchy.

Now Abimelech, the son of Drubabel, went to Shechem to his mother's kinsman, and said to them,

and to the whole clan of his mother's family, say in the ears of all the citizens of Shechem,

which is better for you, that all 70 of the sons of Drubabel rule over you, or that one rule over you. Remember also

that I am your bone and your flesh. And his mother's kinsman spoke all these words on his behalf in

the years of all the men of Shekham, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said,

he is a brother. And they gave him 70 pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberite, with which Abimelech hired

worthless and reckless fellows who followed him. And he went to his father's house at Ophra,

and slew his brothers, the sons of Jerobel, 70 men, upon one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of

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