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Take a breath, find your place, and read deeply. Discover the joy of reading God’s word with the Immerse New Living Translation (NLT) Bible.
This daily Bible podcast will take you through the Bible in a year following the Immerse Bible Reading Experience. So grab your family and small group and go through the Bible in a year together with Immerse. Each of the 6 volumes is available online or at your favorite Christian bookstore.
Ethan: Welcome to Immerse: the
daily bible reading experience.
Day 100 and 99
david was thirty years old
when he began to reign, and
he reigned forty years in all.
He had reigned over Judah from Hebron
for seven years and six months, and
from Jerusalem he reigned over all
Israel and Judah for thirty three years.
David then led his men to Jerusalem
to fight against the Jebusites,
the original inhabitants of
the land who were living there.
The Jebusites taunted David,
saying, You'll never get in here.
Even the blind and lame could
keep you out, for the Jebusites
thought they were safe.
But David captured the fortress of Zion,
which is now called the City of David.
On the day of the attack, David
said to his troops, I hate
those lame and blind Jebusites.
Whoever attacks them should
strike by going into the city
through the water tunnel.
That is the origin of the saying.
The blind and the lame
may not enter the house.
So David made the fortress his home,
and he called it the City of David.
He extended the city, starting at the
supporting terraces and working inward.
And David became more and more
powerful, because the Lord God
of heaven's armies was with him.
Then King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers
to David, along with cedar timber
and carpenters and stonemasons.
And they built David a palace.
And David realized that the Lord
had confirmed him as king over
Israel, and had blessed his kingdom
for the sake of his people Israel.
After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem,
David married more concubines and wives,
and they had more sons and daughters.
These are the names of David's
sons who were born in Jerusalem.
Shamua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Jephiah,
Elishema, Eliadah, and Eliphelet.
When the Philistines heard that David
had been anointed king of Israel, they
mobilized all their forces to capture him.
But David was told they were coming,
so he went into the stronghold.
The Philistines arrived and spread
out across the valley of Rephaim.
So David asked the Lord, Should I
go out to fight the Philistines?
Will you hand them over to me?
The Lord replied to David, Yes, go ahead,
I will certainly hand them over to you.
So David went to Baal perazim and
defeated the Philistines there.
The Lord did it, David exclaimed.
He burst through my enemies
like a raging flood.
So he named that place Baal perazim,
which means The Lord Who Bursts Through.
The Philistines had abandoned
their idols there, so David
and his men confiscated them.
But after a while, the Philistines
returned and again spread out
across the valley of Rephaim.
And again David asked the Lord what to do.
Do not attack them straight on.
The Lord replied, Instead,
circle around behind and attack
them near the poplar trees.
When you hear a sound like
marching feet in the tops of the
poplar trees, be on the alert.
That will be the signal that the
Lord is moving ahead of you to
strike down the Philistine army.
So David did what the Lord commanded,
and he struck down the Philistines
all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
Then David again gathered all the elite
troops in Israel, thirty thousand in all.
He led them to Baal of Judah
to bring back the ark of God.
which bears the name of the
Lord of Heaven's armies, who is
enthroned between the cherubim.
They placed the Ark of God on a new
cart and brought it from Abinadab's
house, which was on a hill.
Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab's
sons, were guiding the cart
that carried the Ark of God.
Ahio walked in front of the Ark.
David and all the people of Israel
were celebrating before the Lord,
singing songs and playing all
kinds of musical instruments.
Liars, harps, tambourines,
castanets and symbols.
But when they arrived at the
threshing floor of naan, the oxen
stumbled and Za reached out his
hand and steadied the Ark of God.
Then the Lord's anger was
aroused against Za, and God
struck him dead because of this.
So Aza died right there
beside the arc of God.
David was angry because the Lord's
anger had burst out against Uzzah.
He named that place Perez Uzzah,
which means to burst out against
Uzzah, as it is still called today.
David was now afraid of the Lord, and
he asked, How can I ever bring the
Ark of the Lord back into my care?
So David decided not to move the Ark
of the Lord into the city of David.
Instead, he took it to the
house of Obed Edom of Gath.
The Ark of the Lord remained there
in Obed Edom's house for three
months, and the Lord blessed Obed
Edom and his entire household.
Then King David was told, The
Lord has blessed Obed Edom's
household and everything he
has because of the Ark of God.
So David went there and brought the Ark
of God from the house of Obed Edom to the
city of David with a great celebration.
After the men who were carrying the Ark
of the Lord had gone six steps, David
sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf,
and David danced before the Lord with all
his might, wearing a priestly garment.
So David and all the people of Israel
brought up the ark of the Lord with shouts
of joy and the blowing of ram's horns.
But as the ark of the Lord entered the
city of David, Michael, the daughter
of Saul, looked down from her window.
When she saw King David leaping and
dancing before the Lord, She was filled
with contempt for him They brought the ark
of the Lord and set it in its place inside
the special tent David had prepared for it
and David sacrificed burnt offerings and
peace offerings to the Lord when he had
finished his sacrifices David blessed the
people in the name of the Lord of heavens
armies Then he gave to every Israelite man
and woman in the crowd a loaf of bread,
a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins.
Then all the people
returned to their homes.
When David returned home to bless
his own family, Michael, the daughter
of Saul, came out to meet him.
She said in disgust, how distinguished the
king of Israel looked to day, shamelessly
exposing himself to the servant girls
like any vulgar person might do.
David retorted to Michael.
I was dancing before the Lord, who chose
me above your father and all his family.
He appointed me as the leader of
Israel, the people of the Lord.
So I celebrate before the Lord.
Yes, and I am willing to look
even more foolish than this, even
to be humiliated in my own eyes.
But those servant girls you mentioned
will indeed think I am distinguished.
So Michael, the daughter of Saul, remained
childless throughout her entire life.
This concludes today's
Immerse Reading Experience.
Thank you for joining us.