Day 98: Israel Asks for a King (2026)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Let's pray. 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.
What is the reading plan and passages for Day 98 (1 Samuel 6–8 and Psalm 86)?
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. And 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. And if you have not yet subscribed, and your podcast app. You can do that whenever you want. Just click on that button that says subscribe, and then what will happen? Well, you will be subscribed. But as I said, gosh, what a gift.
Day 98. You guys, well done. I just want to say it again. Well done. 1 Samuel 6, 7, and 8 in Psalm 86. 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 betshemesh 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 And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth Shemesh, along one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh. Now the people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.
The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there. A great stone was there, and they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord. And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone. and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the Lord. And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron. These are the golden tumors, which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the Lord, one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron, also the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–0:30
2
What is the reading plan and passages for Day 98 (1 Samuel 6–8 and Psalm 86)?
0:30–7:31
3
How is the Ark of the Covenant returned to Israel and why did the Philistines use golden tumors and mice?
7:31–15:13
4
Why did the Philistines test whether the Ark belonged to Israel by using unharnessed cows?
15:13–20:24
5
What happened at Beth Shemesh when the Ark arrived and why did some die?
20:24–21:19