The First Kings of Israel | The Weird Bible Podcast: Episode 10

And when the world needed them most, they vanished 😢 here’s to hoping a new one comes out soon, I love this series 🍻

Isaiah is now Wendigroom.

I really wish Weird Bible was on Spotify. I'd love to be able to download these and listen to them offline.

If you make a "hidden among the stuff" shirt, you gotta hide a little king/stick figure in the word stuff

"And Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal" was one of my dad's favorite verses. I'm sure he's up there and has told Samuel what a fan he is of his work.

My dad always said to find a Church that teaches the Bible. One that is grounded in The Word and not the world is so important. I’m blessed to have found one that is not so much about religious practice but about Jesus, Truth and biblical foundation.

On the little note of the use of "corn" when Jesse was sending David with grain, "corn" has an older somewhat defunct meaning of being a synonym for "grain". Remnants of it remain in such terms as "peppercorns" and "corned beef". Peppercorns can also be called "pepper grains" and corned beef is salts with salt grains . This is a point I learned after reading the backstory for lembas in Tolkien, where it used "corn" to refer where the flour for lembas originated. It is just modern usage of the word has shifted so we now use it specifically for maize.

This podcast is incredibly under rated.

You guys have to put "this has got to be blasphemy...right?" On a shirt. I would so buy that right along side "saul hath hidden himself amongst the stuff"

I just wanted to write this but I've been in a super dark place recently & I consider myself a Nihilist but listening to you guys talk & laugh about all this stuff going on in the Bible has soothed my mind. My parents never went to Church when I was growing up, so I was never exposed to any sort of religious teachings or what have you but having you guys talk about it so much, I feel like I'm finally beginning to understand all the good having faith can bring. I don't think I'll ever be able to convert but just learning about all this biblical stuff over the past couple of weeks has really done a lot for my mental health. I love listening to you guys talk & it makes these 4 walls less empty. So even as a person of no faith, thank you for making this podcast <3

I really appreciated Isaiah's aside on predestination vs free will (and I'm biased, I also fall into the "yes, to both" camp) and I want to come full circle on a thought I think he was implying but didn't outright state. God decided in His own plan to bring a Messiah into the world, and then, even though human kings weren't His original plan for the nation of Israel, He decided to incorporate that into the Messianic plan and the Messiah ended up coming out of Israel's line of kings. So, furthermore, I think we can assume the Messiah would've come from Saul's line if he hadn't failed to seek God and repent in his kingship. Saul went his own way, so God just raised up a different king from which the Messiah would be desceended. This story is a great example of the answer to the free will debate, because in two separate instances, something God intended to do in His overall plan was accomplished, but humans had a level of individual choice regarding the finer details. It almost makes this whole concept something I can wrap my mind around.

Ya boi Wendigoon is finally legally spoken-for. Can someone please keep an eye on shoe0nHead to make sure she doesn't do anything drastic.

Omg...the "3-5 children" joke was a good one. Took me a second 😂😂 Loooooorreeee!

A little context on Benjamin, by the way, though you may get to it. At the end of Judges there was basically a civil war between the tribes when there was absolute depravity going on in Benjamin, very similar to the story of Lot on Sodom and Gomorrah (Judges as a book is a history of Israel's spiral into sin and depravity), and so the tribe was almost completely wiped out. They were truly the smallest tribe because the others nearly destroyed them all.

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I love this podcast, I listen to it constantly! It’s really helped me to explore my faith and had only strengthened it!

Some thoughts: The tribe of Judah was chosen to be the "Royal" tribe, from which all kings would come out of. By choosing a "Benjamite," was God setting up Saul to be a failure? Also, every great leader of Israel was a shepherd first, Saul was a cattleman. A Cattleman 'drives' the Cattle, a Shepherd 'calls' and leads the sheep.

I always knew Wendigoon would marry the AK Guy

The "stuff" is actually militaristic inventory. That's what I was taught in seminary at least. I'd rather just call it "stuff" though. LoL

A shirt with "STUFF" on it - Biblical camouflage!