Fr. Mike draws our attention to Samuel's sons who turned away from God as they ruled over Israel and how the people of Israel rejected God from being their king. Today's readings are 1 Samuel 6-8 and Psalm 86. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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We'll be right back. Discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. Today is day 98 and this is the last day before tomorrow, which is our first messianic checkpoint, which begins the gospel of John tomorrow. But today, day 98, we're reading from 1 Samuel chapters 6, 7, and 8. We're also praying Psalm 86.
As always, I'm reading from the translation called the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you have that, you can follow along. If you don't, you can follow along as well in whatever Bible you do have. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year.
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First Book of Samuel Chapter 6 The Ark Returned to Israel The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us, with what we shall send it to its place.
They said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering, Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you. And they said, What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?
They answered, Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was upon all of you and upon your lords. So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land and give glory to the God of Israel.
perhaps he will lighten his hand from off of you and your gods and your land why should you harden your hearts as the egyptians and pharaoh hardened their hearts ever he had made sport of them did not they let the people go and they departed now then take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows upon which there has never come a yoke
and yoke the cows to the cart but take their calves home away from them and take the ark of the lord and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold which you are returning to him as a guilt offering then send it off and let it go its way and watch If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Bet Shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm.
But if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It happened to us by chance. The men did so and took two milch cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home. And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
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