Day 107: Samuel's Speech (2026)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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 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.
What passages are we reading on Day 107 and which Bible translation is used?
It is day 107, and we're reading today from 1 Samuel chapter 11 and chapter 12. We'll also back to the Psalms we are praying today, Psalm 55, as always. The Bible translation that I am using 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, and you can get that delivered directly to your inbox. Also, if you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, Please consider yourself invited. You're not commanded. You don't need to do anything I say. You just are invited to click subscribe. And also, if you want to comment, that'd be cool.
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How does the story of Nahash and Jabesh-Gilead set the scene for Saul’s leadership?
And if you don't like it, I guess you can. I'm really glad. Thanks for sticking it out. That's amazing. But you can also rate this podcast and hopefully it will help other people find it and hear the Bible. as i said today is day 107 and we're reading from first samuel chapter 11 and 12 and we're praying psalm 55. first samuel chapter 11 saul defeats the ammonites then nahash the ammonite went up and besieged jabesh gilead and all the men of jabesh said to nahash make a treaty with us and we will serve you but nahash the ammonite said to them On this condition, I will make a treaty with you that I gouge out all your right eyes and thus put disgrace upon all Israel. The elders of Jabesh said to him, give us seven days respite that we may send messengers throughout the territory of Israel.
Then if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you. When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the hearing of the people and all the people wept aloud. Now Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen and Saul said, What ails the people that they are weeping? So they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh. And the Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard these words and his anger was greatly kindled. He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers saying, Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.
When he mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. And they said to the messengers who had come, Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance. And when the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad. Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you. And the next day Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and cut down the Ammonites until the heat of the day, and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
Then the people said to Samuel, Who is it that said, Shall Saul reign over us? Bring the men, that we may put them to death. But Saul said, Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has wrought deliverance in Israel.
How did Saul respond to Nahash’s threat and how did he unite Israel for battle?
Then Samuel said to the people, Come, let us go to Gilgal, and there renew the kingdom. So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:22
2
What passages are we reading on Day 107 and which Bible translation is used?
0:22–1:03
3
How does the story of Nahash and Jabesh-Gilead set the scene for Saul’s leadership?
1:03–3:33
4
How did Saul respond to Nahash’s threat and how did he unite Israel for battle?
3:33–7:06
5
Why did the people want to kill Saul’s opponents and how did Saul show restraint?
7:06–8:43
6
What is Samuel’s main message in his farewell (1 Samuel 12) about Israel’s history?
8:43–9:28
7
How does Psalm 55 inform the episode’s theme of betrayal, trust, and prayer?
9:28–11:25
8
How does Samuel explain God granting a king despite it not being His original plan?
11:25–20:39