Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,

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Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into

that story today. Today is day 93. We're reading from Judges Chapter 12, 13, 14, and 15.

There's no secondary book except for the book of Psalms, which we're praying Psalm 146 today.

Kind of jumping ahead to Psalm 146, as always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe in your podcast app. If you did not yet done that, that would be a nice thing to do. Anyways, day 93, today,

Judges 12, 13, 14, and 15, praying Psalm 14 and 46. The book of judges, chapter 12, intertribal

fighting. The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaffon and said to

Jephtha,

Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire. And Jephthah said to them, I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand. And when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me? Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim because they said, you are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh. And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, let me go over, the men of Gilead said to them, are you an Ephraimite? When they said no, they said to him, then say Shibboleth, and he said, Sibboleth, for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him

and slew him at the fords of the Jordan, and there fell at that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites.

Jephtha judged Israel six years. Then Jephttha, the Gileadite, died, and was buried in

his city in Gilead. Ibson, Elon, and Abdon. After him, Ibson of Bethlehem judged Israel. He had

30 sons and 30 daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan.

And 30 daughters he brought in from outside for his sons.

And he judged Israel seven years.

Then Ibsun died and was buried at Bethlehem.

After him, Elon, the Zebulunite, judged Israel.

And he judged Israel 10 years.

Then Elon, the Zebulinite, died and was buried at Aijan,

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