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The Word
by R. A. Snider
These are recitals from the Holy Bible, presented in the Authorized Version. Faith comes by hearing, so we read the Word aloud, book by book, that faith may come alive in you.If you’d like to donate to this podcast, just go to the link in the description at ko-fi.com/thewordtheway, and click the big red “DONATE” button, or sign up for a subscription here on Spotify.
Episodes
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Matthew 8-9
Jesus, now followed by multitudes, heals the sick, raises the dead, delivers the possessed, confounds and angers the Establishment, and enjoins His disciples to pray for laborers to help with the tremendous harvest of souls. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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Matthew 5-7
The celebrated Sermon on the Mount. Our Lord teaches spiritual and behavioral truths never heard before as He touches the very depths of human motivation, and directs us to put our heart into everything, from prayer to giving, to loving others. And He introduces the Jews to a revolutionary idea:...
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Matthew 3-4
John the Baptist preaches the gospel of the Kingdom, and baptizes multitudes in the river Jordan when Jesus appears to be baptized also. God speaks, the Spirit appears, and Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil himself. He victorious return marks the beginning of Jesus’s...
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Matthew 1-2
Season 3 kicks off with a complete reset: New Testament, Matthew’s Gospel, Chapters 1 and 2, which presents us with the 42-generation lineage of Jesus Christ from Abraham. Jesus is born of the virgin, Mary, and Joseph, His adoptive father, is warned to flee from the murderous intent of King…
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2 Samuel 6:1-11, 1 Chronicles 13, Psalm 68
In today’s reading, King David calls for the Ark of the Covenant to be brought to him at the City of David, but fails to have it moved in the manner commanded by the LORD. A man is slain and the celebration turned into mourning. Psalm 68 is a call to praise the God of the heavens. Into/Outro…
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1 Chronicles 12, 2 Samuel 5:11-25, 1 Chronicles 14
Today’s reading recounts the names of many who came to King David’s aid in subduing all Israel under his ordained rule. The segment of 2 Samuel 5 and 1 Chronicles 14 record the same account, with only slight variations of language and spelling. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant...
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2 Samuel 5:1-10, 1 Chronicles 11
In today’s reading, David is again anointed king over Israel, having first reigned over Judah. Under David’s rule, he and his armies go up to Jerusalem (Jebu’s Salem) and take the city, establishing it as the seat of the kingdom. 1 Chronicles 11 is a “clone chapter”, recounting in greater detail...
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2 Samuel 3-4
In today’s reading, power plays continue as the remnant of the House of Saul maneuvers for advantage. Abner, a cousin of Saul and captain of his army, seems to position himself for the throne, but is blocked by Saul’s last living son, the lame Ishbosheth. Abner opens a dialog with David and all...
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2 Samuel 1-2
In today’s reading, David and his men mourn the death of King Saul and Jonathan, and his moving lamentation is recorded in chapter 1. Chapter 2 reveals the shifts of power as David is crowned, but rival to the throne emerges. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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1 Chronicles 7-9
…and continues, including Saul, first king of Israel, and his sons. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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1 Chronicles 5-6
In today’s reading, the genealogy continues… Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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1 Chronicles 3-4
In today’s reading, the genealogy continues, briefly interrupted by the celebrated prayer of Jabez. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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1 Chronicles 1-2
In today’s reading, the genealogies from Adam through Noah, Abraham, and the beginnings of many nations of the middle-eastern region. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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1 Samuel 31, 1 Chronicles 10
In today’s reading - two accounts of the same event which are virtually identical - the Philistines make war against Israel and the armies of Saul, and prevail. All three of Saul’s sons, including Jonathan, are killed in battle, and Saul is mortally wounded. In both accounts when Saul sees that…
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1 Samuel 29-30
In today’s reading, the Philistines amass their armies for an invasion at Jezreel, and David’s men are understandably excluded from the campaign. David takes his men back to Ziklag and discovers the aftermath of an Amalekite invasion: the city burned, their wives and children taken captive, and...
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1 Samuel 27-28, Psalm 141
In today’s reading, David finds sanctuary among the Philistines with Achish, King of Gath. Saul, no longer hearing from the LORD, seeks counsel from a necromancer - the witch at Endor - and learns in no uncertain terms his death is imminent. Psalm 141 presents a cry of David to God for help and...
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1 Samuel 25-26
After a modest hiatus, we resume our daily recitals where we left off: 1 Samuel, and King Saul’s drama concerning David. In today’s reading, Samuel - priest, prophet and judge of Israel - dies, and is mourned by all the people. David and his men are aided by Abigail, whom he later marries. Saul...
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1 Samuel 24, Psalms 57, 58, 63
In today’s reading, King Saul is delivered into David’s hands, and David shows him mercy. Saul, not too far gone to realize just how far he’s fallen, palavers with David, honors him, and bids him vow not to end his family line once David ascends the throne. Psalms 57, 58 and 63 of David speak...
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1 Samuel 23, Psalms 17, 31, 54
In today’s reading, the Philistines attack the city of Keilah, and David and his company go by the word of God to defend it, saving the city and its people. Upon learning from the LORD that the inhabitants of the city will prove unfaithful to him when Saul comes, David and his company flee to the...
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Psalms 64, 109, 140
In today’s reading, three psalms of David calling upon God to protect him from his enemies, and bring them to ruin and desolation, in spite of their diligence in their own evil work. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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1 Samuel 22, Psalms 142, 35, 52
In today’s reading, David finds no quarter with the king of Gath, and so departs for the king of Moab, finding shelter for himself and those who met him en route at the cave of Adullam. At the word of the prophet Gad, David and his supporters depart for the land of Judah. Saul hears of David’s...
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1 Samuel 20-21, Psalms 34 & 56
In today’s reading, David and Jonathan meet at Naioth to discuss Saul’s intentions toward him, and the two make a covenant for David’s protection. When Saul declares his murderous intentions to Jonathan, David flees for his life, resorting to the priests for food (which Christ Himself references…
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1 Samuel 18-19, Psalms 11 & 59
In today’s reading, David the slayer of Goliath, and Jonathan the son of King Saul become fast friends, even as Saul’s madness and jealousy of David grow worse. The king at once values David’s service while also wishing him dead. As time passes and various attempts on David’s life fail, Jonathan...
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1 Samuel 17, Psalm 9
In today’s reading, the Israelites come to a standoff in battle against the Philistines, and the giant Goliath of Gath provokes the Israelite army to send a champion to break the stalemate. The shepherd son of Jesse, David, becomes the unlikely hero… Psalm 9, a psalm of David, is suggestive of…
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1 Samuel 15-16
In today’s reading, The LORD commands Saul to destroy the Amalekites for their crimes against the Israelites as they came out of Egypt generations ago, and Saul mobilizes his forces to make war, but in the victory that followed, he again disobeys the LORD, and spares the Amalekite king and much…
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1 Samuel 13-14
In today’s reading, Saul has reigned two years in Israel when he starts a war with Philistines. When things begin to go badly, Saul, likely moved by fear and impatience, crosses a line and offers an animal sacrifice himself, which thing is forbidden to any but the Levites. Samuel arrives and...
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1 Samuel 11-12
In today’s reading, Nahash the Ammonite comes to threaten Jabesh-gilead, who cries out to Israel for help. Saul hears and gathers men from all of Israel and Judah to fight against the Ammonites. They prevail against the Ammonites and scatter the survivors. Samuel and Saul go to Gilgal to renew…
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1 Samuel 9-10
In today’s reading, Samuel find and anoints Saul to be the first king of Israel at the LORD’s direction, and Saul shows a promising beginning, prophesying among the prophets by the Spirit of God, and well accepted by the people of Israel. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used…
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1 Samuel 7-8
In today’s reading, following the return of the ark to Israel Samuel calls the people of Israel to repentance, to turn away from false gods, which in their mourning of recent events they readily do, and the LORD grants them a lasting victory over the Philistines at Mizpeh. In the years that…
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1 Samuel 5-6
In today’s reading, the ark of the covenant is taken by the Philistines in battle, and the LORD quickly plagues them in all their cities where the ark is kept, until they finally relent and send the ark back to Israel with offerings for their trespass. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995…
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1 Samuel 3-4
In today’s reading, Samuel begins to know the LORD for himself, and the LORD blesses him, increasing his reputation throughout all Israel. Eli hears the prophecy against he and his house confirmed by the mouth of Samuel, and sees it comes to pass in the defeat of Israel against the Philistines....
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1 Samuel 1-2
The first book of Samuel opens with a barren wife and a heartfelt prayer for a son. Upon vowing to the LORD to loan her son to him all the days of his life, He remembers her at the time appointed, and she conceives and bares the child, Samuel. She keeps her vow and after weening the child, she...
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Ruth 3-4 (concluded)
In today’s reading, Naomi advises Ruth to position herself to be redeemed with Naomi’s land by the hand of Boaz. One obstacle remains: a kinsman nearer than Boaz, who in accordance with Moses’s Law desires to redeem the land, but not the Moabite woman who would come with it to raise up children…
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Ruth 1-2
The book of Ruth, a short work at only four chapters, opens with the backstory of a family’s tragic sojourn in Moab, during the time of the judges. The father and sons die, leaving three widows behind, of whom only Naomi and Ruth, a mother and her daughter-in-law, return to Israel to start a new...
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Judges 20-21 (concluded)
The book of Judges concludes with all Israel rallying to destroy the men of Gibeah for the murder of the Levite’s concubine, but the Benjamites defend their own rather than giving them up. In the ensuing war, the casualties are high on each side, but the Benjamites are nearly destroyed, and in…
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Judges 18-19
In today’s reading, we’re introduced to Micah, an idolator, and later to a Levite he hires to be his priest, in an apparent blend of Judaism and idol worship. But when a troop of Danites pass through, they hire the Levite away from Micah, and take his idols under threat of violence. After…
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Judges 16-17
In today’s reading, the personal war between Samson and the Philistines continues to escalate, trading blow for blow until Samson takes an interest in a gentile woman in the valley of Sorek, and the Philistines bribe her into betraying him into their hands. After his capture and torment at the...
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Judges 14-15
In today’s reading, Samson is grown and takes a wife among the Philistines, provoking considerable antagonism between they and himself, and who vex each other over a riddle and possessions, until the conflict escalates and blood is shed. Physically strengthened by the LORD, Samson takes vengeance...
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Judges 12-13
In today’s reading, Jephthah is confronted by the Ephraimites for excluding them from the battle against the Ammonites, and a genuine feud ensues between the Israelite tribe of Ephraim and the Israelite tribes in Gilead, namely Reuben, Gad and East Manasseh. The quarrel comes to open conflict…
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Judges 10-11
In today’s reading, Israel again turns to worshiping the false gods of the nations around them, and the LORD allows the Philistines and the Ammonites to oppress and rule over them. When Israel cries for deliverance, the LORD rebukes them for their faithlessnes. As they persist in their plea for...
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Judges 8-9
In today’s reading, the Ephraimites reprove Gideon for not calling on them to aid in the battle with the Midianites, and Gideon talks them down, abating their anger. When he is refused supplies from the men of Succoth while in the pursuit of two of the Midianite kings, Gideon promises to extract…
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Judges 6-7
In today’s reading, the Midianites vex Israel, and after the LORD sends a prophet to rebuke the Israelites for their own part in their woes, the LORD raises up Gideon to deliver them. Under Gideon’s leadership, the LORD works a miraculous victory over the Midianite army with only three hundred…
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Judges 1-5
The book of Judges starts our strong with further conquests by the tribes of Judah and Simeon, but quickly deteriorates into compromise on the part of nearly all the tribes of Israel, failing to drive out the inhabitants of the land, and opting instead to make their enemies tributaries. Following...
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Joshua 21-24 (concluded)
The book of Joshua concludes with the Levites receiving the cities appointed to them with the surrounding lands for their cattle, which completed and fulfilled the divine promise of the LORD to give to Israel the land He had promised to their fathers, punctuated with the Word’s claim: “There…
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Joshua 16-20
In today’s reading, we find the detailed descriptions of the land inheritances of each of the tribes of Israel, by their borders, and the six cities of refuge. Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission
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Joshua 11-15
In today’s reading, the conquest continues, with other gentile kings forming an alliance against the Israelites, but the promise of God endured, and moving from city to city, land to land, Joshua and the Israelites defeat every enemy and every king. City after to city fall to the Israelites, and...
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Joshua 6-10
In today’s reading, the conquest of the promised land begins with the siege of Jericho and the Israelite’s miraculous victory over the same. Yet immediately following they suffer a humiliating defeat at the city of Ai, and they learn a painful lesson: God is with them only when they are with God:...
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Joshua 1-5
The book of Joshua begins with the LORD’s instructions to Joshua, describing again the borders of the land that the LORD promises them. As the people make preparation to cross over Jordan, two spies are dispatched to spy out Jericho, where they take shelter in the home of Rahab the harlot, and…
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Deuteronomy 30-34 (concluded)
Deuteronomy concludes with the LORD reassuring the children of Israel that He will hear them when they cry out in repentance, and will restore them. The LORD appoints Joshua to lead the Israelites, and the Moses commands the priests to instruct all Israel in the Law every year of release, in the...
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Deuteronomy 25-29
In today’s reading, the LORD gives commandments regarding corporal punishment for Lawbreakers, duty to a brother’s childless widow, just weights and measures, offerings of firstfruits, and paying of tithes. He commands the writing of the Law upon great plastered stones at mount Ebal, and the...
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These are recitals from the Holy Bible, presented in the Authorized Version. Faith comes by hearing, so we read the Word aloud, book by book, that faith may come alive in you.If you’d like to donate to this podcast, just go to the link in the description at ko-fi.com/thewordtheway, and click the big red “DONATE” button, or sign up for a subscription here on Spotify.
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