Day 115: King Saul is Spared (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day one hundred and fifteen, and we are reading from First Samuel, chapter twenty-four. We're also praying Psalm fifty-seven, as always. The translation of the Bible that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And you also are invited to subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily episodes that you don't have to hunt for every single day because they will find you. They will hunt you down and make sure that you listen to the Bible today like you're doing on day one fifteen as we're reading from First Samuel, chapter twenty-four, and Psalm fifty-seven. First Samuel, chapter twenty-four. David spares Saul's life. When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of Ein Gedi." Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks. And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave. And the men of David said to him, "Here is the day of which the