Chad Bird

  1. June 26 - Shofar

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    06/26/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׁופר - And [Gideon] divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars. JUDGES 7:16
    June 26 - Shofar

  2. June 25 - God the Refiner

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    06/25/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    צרף - And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.” JUDGES 7:4
    June 25 - God the Refiner

  3. June 24 - Gideon’s Nickname

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    06/24/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ירבעל - But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.” Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar. JUDGES 6:31–32
    June 24 - Gideon’s Nickname

  4. June 23 - The Canaanite Consorts

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    06/23/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    בעל אשׁרה - That night the Lord said to [Gideon], “Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.” JUDGES 6:25–26
    June 23 - The Canaanite Consorts

  5. June 22 - The Locust

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    06/22/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ארבה - [The Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East] would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in. JUDGES 6:4–5
    June 22 - The Locust

  6. June 21 - Hammer Time

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    06/21/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מקבת - But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to [Sisera] and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. JUDGES 4:21
    June 21 - Hammer Time

  7. 2 Samuel 12:1-15 (Episode 271)

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    06/21/21
    1 min
    By Chad Bird | Daniel Emery Price
    You are the man.
    2 Samuel 12:1-15 (Episode 271)

  8. June 20 - Prophetic Mother Bee

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    06/20/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    דבורה - Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. JUDGES 4:4–5
    June 20 - Prophetic Mother Bee

  9. June 19 - The Dangerous Hebrew Southpaw

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    06/19/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    אטר - Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes. JUDGES 3:15–16
    June 19 - The Dangerous Hebrew Southpaw

  10. June 18 - The Fat Calf King

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    06/18/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    עגל - And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord... Now Eglon was a very fat man. JUDGES 3:12, 17
    June 18 - The Fat Calf King

  11. June 17 - God as Merchant

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    06/17/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מכר - Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. JUDGES 3:8
    June 17 - God as Merchant

  12. June 16 - Forget You!

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    06/16/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׁכח - And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth. JUDGES 3:7
    June 16 - Forget You!