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Commuter Bible OT is a work-week audio Bible reading plan to match your weekly schedule. In five days a week, Monday-Friday, you can listen to the entire Old Testament over the course of a year. We even break on holidays! Presented chronologically, this podcast presents the Old Testament's contents in the order in which they occurred. Subscribe today and get more of God's Word in your daily life. Part of the Commuter Bible family of podcasts, using the Christian Standard Bible translation (CSB). Learn more at www.commuterbible.org
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- Ezekiel 37-39 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 218You may have noticed this turn already, but ever since the mention of Jerusalem’s fall in chapter 33, God’s message to His people has become one of promise and hope for a…
- Ezekiel 35-36 · 14 min · Season 6 Episode 217Up next in the list of nations being rebuked by the Lord is the nation of Edom. Edom was on the short list of nations receiving prophetic rebuke along with Ammon, Moab, and…
- Ezekiel 33-34, Proverbs 25:1-13 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 216In today’s passage, Ezekiel recalls the day when, 12 years into exile, he first hears word that Jerusalem has been overtaken. Those who remain behind want to claim the land as…
- Ezekiel 31-32, Proverbs 24 · 19 min · Season 6 Episode 215We are in the section of Ezekiel’s prophecies where the proclamations against particular nations have collected together. In our last episode we concluded the prophecy against…
- Ezekiel 28-30, Proverbs 23 · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 214As you’ll recall from our last episode, Ezekiel is prophesying against the port city of Tyre. That section of prophecy concludes today and we’ll begin a new prophecy against the…
- Ezekiel 25-27, Proverbs 22:17-29 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 213Israel and Judah have incited the Lord’s wrath by their wanton disregard for His statutes, and the Lord intends to pour His wrath out on His people. Even so, He will continue to…
- Ezekiel 23-24, Proverbs 22:1-16 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 212The Word of God sometimes shocks us with the imagery it gives to describe the sins of mankind, and today’s passage is no exception. As you might imagine, today’s podcast includes…
- Ezekiel 20:32-22:31, Proverbs 21:17-31 · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 211In our last reading, some of the elders of Israel had gathered around Ezekiel to inquire of the Lord, but God denied them counsel and began to recount the history of Israel’s…
- Ezekiel 18:1-20:31, Proverbs 21:1-16 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 210Our reading opens with a consideration of personal responsibility for sin. The Lord says that each man is responsible for his own sins; no man will be charged as guilty for the…
- Ezekiel 16-17 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 209Today’s episode contains sexual themes, so parental discretion is advised. Today we get a glimpse of God’s lovingkindness toward Israel as God describes Himself as a Father who…
- Ezekiel 13-15 · 16 min · Season 6 Episode 208We begin today’s passage with prophecies against false teachers who make up things to say from the Lord even though he didn’t actually say them. These prophets are figuratively…
- Ezekiel 9-12, Proverbs 20:16-30 · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 207In our last episode, while meeting with Judah’s elders, Ezekiel was carried off in a vision by the Lord. In one scene after another, the Lord showed Ezekiel the abhorrent…
- Ezekiel 5-8 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 206When we last left Ezekiel, the Lord had given him prophetic acts to perform before the people of Jerusalem. In one he drew the city of Jerusalem on a brick and then laid siege to…
- Ezekiel 1-4, Proverbs 20:1-15 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 205Ezekiel is on his way to Babylon with a group of exiles when suddenly, the heavens are opened and he sees a vision from God. The symbolism here is pretty deep. Coming from the…
- Lamentations 3-5, Proverbs 19 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 204Today, we complete the book of Lamentations, a work of suffering, shame, horror, and defeat, but centered in the middle of the work, we read of Jeremiah’s confident hope in the…
- Lamentations 1-2, Proverbs 18 · 19 min · Season 6 Episode 203The book of Lamentations has some pretty harrowing imagery, especially as it relates to children, so parental discretion is advised . We have concluded the book Jeremiah but we…
- Jeremiah 51:24-52:34, Proverbs 17 · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 202The prophecy against Babylon continues from our last episode today as we read the rest of chapter 51. In it, the Lord calls upon several nations to wage war against Babylon…
- Jeremiah 50:1-51:23, Proverbs 16:17-33 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 201The final prophecy against a particular nation is a doozy, proclaiming total annihilation and ruin and spanning two long chapters, (50, 51) one of which is the sixth longest…
- Jeremiah 48:21-49:39, Proverbs 16:1-16 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 200We’re now in the section of Jeremiah that includes prophecies against individual nations. These prophecies were gathered over the course of Jeremiah’s life and have been…
- Jeremiah 44:15-48:20, Proverbs 15:18-33 · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 199Following the destruction of Jerusalem, Jeremiah had elected to stay in the land with permission from the Chaldeans. After an insurrection and no small tumult within the remnant…
- Jeremiah 41:1-44:14, Proverbs 15:1-17 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 198The prophecies of Jeremiah foretelling the devastation of Jerusalem have come to pass. Through it all the Lord has kept His promises and has protected Jeremiah from harm. With…
- Habakkuk 1-3, 2 Chronicles 36, Proverbs 14:16-35 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 197As we cover the siege of Jerusalem and it’s fall there will be a lot of overlap as we try to cover all the material that pertains to this period in biblical history. Today, we’ll…
- Jeremiah 40, 2 Kings 24-25, Proverbs 14:1-15 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 196In our last episode, the prophecies of Jeremiah came to pass. The Chaldean army laid siege to Jerusalem and right before his eyes were gouged out, Zedekiah’s sons were executed…
- Jeremiah 37-39, Proverbs 13 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 195From a chronological standpoint, today’s reading can be a little confusing. Have you ever been watching a TV show that begins with a jump in the story’s timeline for dramatic…
- Jeremiah 34-36 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 194From a chronological standpoint, today’s reading can be a little confusing. Have you ever been watching a TV show that begins with a jump in the story’s timeline for dramatic…
- Jeremiah 32-33, Proverbs 12:15-28 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 193This part of the text may be a little confusing, so let me give a little historical context. The Babylonian siege began after King Zedekiah had been in office for nine years…
- Jeremiah 30-31, Proverbs 12:1-14 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 192Today, the Lord offers consolation and hope for those in exile. After 70 years of living outside of the land the Lord has given them, the Lord will bring judgment upon those…
- Jeremiah 27-29, Proverbs 11:17-31 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 191In an age before billboards, movies, and cat videos, there were few ways to stand out from the crowd and command the attention of people who might otherwise ignore you. At the…
- Jeremiah 25-26, Proverbs 11:1-16 · 18 min · Season 6 Episode 190At this point in the life of Jeremiah, he has served as a prophet among the people of Judah for 23 years. During that time, the people have ignored his prophecies and his calls…
- Jeremiah 23-24, Proverbs 10 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 189In our last reading, Jeremiah condemned Zedekiah and the three godless kings that preceded him. These leaders of Judah, whom the Lord addresses as shepherds in today’s reading…
- Jeremiah 20-22, Proverbs 9 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 188Jeremiah has proclaimed that those who trust in men are cursed and those who trust in the Lord will be blessed. Today, the prophet must put this very teaching into practice, for…
- Jeremiah 17-19, Proverbs 8:22-36 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 187Jeremiah continues his pronouncement against the persistent sin of Judah as our text begins today, saying that those who trust in men are cursed and those who trust in the Lord…
- Jeremiah 14-16, Proverbs 8:1-21 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 186In today’s episode, Jeremiah delivers a lament for the drought that has come over Judah, calling on God to deliver his people. Throughout Scripture, the Lord often relents after…
- Jeremiah 11-13, Proverbs 7 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 185The false gods that Israel has served are worthless and lifeless, and God warns that those gods will not save them from His wrath. The nation that the Lord loved and cherished…
- Jeremiah 8-10 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 184The people of Judah and Jerusalem have developed a false sense of security, for they suppose that fulfilling the rituals of worship will please God. Assuming they have God’s…
- Jeremiah 6-7, Proverbs 6 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 183The Lord has announced through Jeremiah that he will send Assyria from the north to conquer Jerusalem and Judah, making it a desolate wasteland. He sends Jeremiah to ensure that…
- Jeremiah 4-5, Proverbs 5 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 182The Lord’s love remains on Judah but he cannot allow her rampant evil and adulterous idol worship to continue. Time and again He has called them to repent, but they continue to…
- Jeremiah 1-3 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 181Jeremiah was a young man from Anathoth serving as a priest when the Lord called him and set him aside to be God’s chosen instrument in prophesying against the nation of Judah…
- 2 Chronicles 35, Zephaniah 1-3 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 180While we finished reading about Josiah from 2 Kings, the book of 2 Chronicles has more to say about this king, including a lengthy description concerning the details of the…
- 2 Chronicles 34, 2 Kings 23, Proverbs 4:20-27 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 179In our last episode we were introduced to King Josiah who began his reign over Judah at the mere age of nine. As we pick up 2 Chronicles, we’ll hear a parallel account to our…
- Nahum, 2 Kings 22, Proverbs 4:1-19 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 178Like Jonah before him, the prophet Nahum preaches devastation and ruin for Ninevah, only this time Ninevah doesn’t repent. Ninevah was the capital of Assyria, a nation of…
- 2 Chronicles 33, 2 Kings 21, Proverbs 3 · 17 min · Season 6 Episode 177We completed the book of Isaiah in our last episode and now we’re back in the narrative histories of 2 Chronicles and 2 Kings. Hezekiah’s son Manasseh takes the throne and turns…
- Isaiah 64-66, Proverbs 2 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 176We have reached the final chapters of the book of Isaiah, in which Isaiah continues to prophesy about things yet to come. You’ll recall that in our chronological reading of the…
- Isaiah 59-63 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 175The Lord calls his people to fast, but to fast while doing as one pleases, oppressing others, or causing strife and violence, is not true fasting. True fasting involves humility…
- Isaiah 55-58, Proverbs 1 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 174The Lord invites Israel into his presence, and in our opening verses, this is depicted symbolically with a lavish feast, provided free of charge by God Almighty himself. This…
- Isaiah 50-54 · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 173Throughout the book of Isaiah, we’ll hear references to one called the Servant. Though there is immediate application to be found by naming Israel as this Servant, the New…
- Isaiah 46-49 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 172As Isaiah continues to prophesy about future events, remember that Babylon has not yet come to power and has not yet brought Israel into captivity. You’ll hear statements like…
- Isaiah 43-45, Psalm 150 · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 171God’s people are precious in his sight, so much so that has given up other nations in order to ransom them from destruction. Though a time of judgment is coming upon them, the…
- Isaiah 40-42, Psalm 149 · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 170You’ll recall in our last episode that Hezekiah flaunted his wealth to Babylonian messengers, and although the exile will not take place for another 80-100 years, it is at this…
- Isaiah 38-39, 2 Kings 20, 2 Chronicles 32:20-33, Psalm 148 · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 169In our last episode, the Lord God turned away the messengers of King Sennacherib of Assyria and his armies, sending his angel to strike down 185,000 in their camp. Sometime…
