Day 94 - Saturday in Holy Week

Read |  Saturday | April 4 | Judges 11:29 – 15:20

Date | From the Conquest to the Kings, the period of the Judges extends some 200 to 300 years.

Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 | Click here 

Reading | Abimelech asks for victory from God and makes a rash promise - his daughter is the one to be killed, she wanders for two months with friends and then was executed. Everyone laments her for four days per year. War with Ephrim. 

Another series of judges rise up as Israel forgets God doing evil and the Philistines conquered them. Zorah bears a son - a nazirite - as promised by an angel, interaction with the angel - Samson was born; He grows and finally marries the Timnite woman and not from his tribe - riddle, killing of men, attacks Philistines with foxes; they kill wife and father in law; he seek revenge and sets to slaughter them by a jawbone of a donkey; God gives him water.

Source | The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th Edition | (c) 2010, Oxford University Press | ISBN 978-0-19528955-8 | click here for one place to purchase | pp. 372 - 376

Next | Sunday | April 5 | Judges 16:1 – 18:31

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Collect of the Day: Holy Saturday

O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

For Mission

Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honor of your Name. Amen.

Source | Daily Office in English | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer | Today - click here