Day 108: Saul's Vanity (2026)
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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. It is day 108, and we are reading from 1 Samuel chapters 13 and 14.
What passages are we reading on Day 108 (which chapters of 1 Samuel and which Psalm)?
We're also praying Psalm 58. 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. Also, if you'd like, you can subscribe to this podcast, and that way you'll get updates every single time we have a new episode. That would be phenomenal for you and for me as well. As I said, today, day 108, we're reading 1 Samuel chapter 13 and 14 and praying Psalm 58. 1 Samuel chapter 13, Saul's unlawful sacrifice. Saul was years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in two years over Israel.
Saul chose 3,000 men of Israel. 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent. Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines, which was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. And all Israel heard it, and said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal. And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude.
They came up and encamped in Michmash to the east of Beth-Avon. When the men of Israel saw that they were in straits, for the people were hard-pressed, the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, or crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad in Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal and all the people followed him trembling. He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal and the people were scattering from him. So Saul said, bring the burnt offering here to me and the peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came and Saul went out to meet him and salute him.
Samuel said, what have you done? And Saul said, When I saw that the people were scattering from me and that you did not come within the days appointed and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash, I said, Now the Philistines will come down upon me at Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of the Lord. So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever, but now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.
And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him about six hundred men. And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin. But the Philistines encamped in Michmash. And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah to the land of Sheol. Another company turned toward Beth-haron. And another company turned toward the border that looks down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. preparations for battle now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of israel for the philistines said lest the hebrews make themselves swords or spears but every one of the israelites went down to the philistines to sharpen his plowshare his mattock his axe or his sickle and the charge was a pym for the plowshares and for the mattocks and a third of a shekel for the sharpening of axes and for setting the goads
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:25
2
What passages are we reading on Day 108 (which chapters of 1 Samuel and which Psalm)?
0:25–5:01
3
What happens in 1 Samuel 13 when Saul offers an unlawful sacrifice and why did he do it?
5:01–12:39
4
How does Samuel confront Saul and what are the consequences for Saul’s kingship?
12:39–16:48
5
How were Israel’s military preparations described and why were weapons scarce?
16:48–19:43
6
How did Jonathan’s surprise attack in 1 Samuel 14 unfold and what sign did he use?
19:43–21:24