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.

The Bible in the 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 94.

If you are following along with the Bible in a year reading plan sheet and you printed it out,

this is the last day on the second sheet, which is, I think, worth celebrating.

So it's day 94.

We are reading from Judges, Chapter 16, 17, and 18, as well as praying Psalm 147. As always, I am reading from the revised standard version, second Catholic edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a reading plan, so you can check off every day and get to the end of this second sheet of paper. You can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.

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episodes that we have. Once again, as we're going through the book of judges, one of the things

to keep in mind is how PG-13-R content things get, the more and more we're following to the end of the Book of Judges.

Today we're concluding the story of Samson and Delilah.

We're also going on to Micah and the Levite and some of the other kind of issues with regard to that.

So keep that in mind as we strap in and take the next steps.

Once again, Judges 16, 17 and 18, and Psalm 147.

The book of Judges, Chapter 16, Samson and Delilah.

Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a harlot, and he went into her.

The Gazites were told Samson has come here, and they surrounded the place and lay in wait

for him all night at the gate of the city.

They kept quiet all night, saying, let us wait till the light of the morning. Then we will kill him. But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.

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