{"podcast":{"title":"Commuter Bible OT","slug":"commuter-bible-ot-2653726","podcast_index_feed_id":2653726,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/3cfqu7SJ","website_url":"http://www.commuterbible.org","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6e5e603b-4032-42ff-ba6a-b4efd0ca4dcf/cd3cd55a-d9a6-416b-ba61-e28973f7dbac/3000x3000/cbp20248.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"John Ross","episode_count":600,"summary":"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","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T10:17:35.286102+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/commuter-bible-ot-2653726"},"episode":{"title":"1 Samuel 4-7","slug":"1-samuel-4-7","published_at":"2026-05-13T04:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/commuter-bible-ot-2653726/1-samuel-4-7","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/commuter-bible-ot-2653726","url":"http://www.commuterbible.org","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/c95cb48f-95db-400b-ad13-0de3247674d2/32c2ceb1-1473-4674-bc63-45a6a19251a0/episodes/audio/group/a1e2d081-3539-4e14-a6e2-6c0de6b1e7ec/group-item/50ce0fd1-6ccb-4713-a00d-a1663f51d064/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=3cfqu7SJ","summary":"Today, Israel goes to battle against the Philistines. They assume that if they bring out the ark of the covenant to the battlefield, that it’s presence would either oblige God to win the battle for them or that the object itself has some kind of mystical power. They are sorely mistaken, and the Philistines promptly defeat them and capture the ark. Assuming that their victory is a victory over Israel’s God, the Philistines place the ark in Dagon’s temple. Time and again, however, the Lord silently causes destruction, catastrophe and misery for the Philistines wherever the ark is taken, until finally, they become so desperate they put it on a cart and send it back where it came from.","meta_description":"Today, Israel goes to battle against the Philistines. They assume that if they bring out the ark of the covenant to the battlefield, that it’s presence wo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1181,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/commuter-bible-ot-2653726/episodes/1-samuel-4-7/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/commuter-bible-ot-2653726/1-samuel-4-7.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}