Day 82: The Valley of Achor (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 82, and we are on the second day of the time period of conquest and judges. We are reading today from Joshua chapter 5 through chapter 7. sticking, as I mentioned yesterday, with the book of Joshua pretty much for the next eight or so days until day 88, where we'll conclude Joshua, and then day 89, move over to Judges.
We're also praying today from Psalm 125. I am reading, as always, from 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 to this podcast that you're currently listening to on day 82 for crying out loud if you've not yet subscribed. We just all wonder. We just wonder, like, what is it we need to do? What is it we need to do after 82 days to get you to subscribe? Chances are you've already subscribed and we are really, really grateful for that. As I said today, we are reading from Joshua chapter 5 through chapter 7 and praying Psalm 125.
The book of Joshua, chapter five. The sons of Israel are circumcised. When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the sons of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the sons of Israel. At that time, the Lord said to Joshua, make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time. So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath Haraloth. And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them. All the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war had died on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.
Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. For the sons of Israel walked 40 years in the wilderness till all the nation, the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of the lord to them the lord swore that he would not let them see the land which the lord had sworn to their fathers to give us a land flowing with milk and honey so it was their children whom he had raised up in their stead that joshua circumcised for they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way. When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed.
And the Lord said to Joshua, This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. the Passover at Gilgal. While the sons of Israel were encamped in Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at the evening in the plains of Jericho. And on the next day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. And the manna ceased on the next day, when they ate the produce of the land, and the sons of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand.
And Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us or for our adversaries? And he said, No, but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped and said to him, What does my Lord bid his servant?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–7:50
2
Why does Joshua order a new circumcision for Israel after crossing the Jordan?
7:50–13:03
3
How does circumcision symbolize Israel’s renewed covenant and vulnerability?
13:03–16:51
4
What does the Passover at Gilgal signify and why does the manna stop?
16:51–18:58
5
Who is the commander of the Lord’s army and why does Joshua remove his shoes?
18:58–20:56
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What was the strategy for taking Jericho and how did the walls fall?
20:56–23:00