The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Oct 11, 2026 · 27 min · 13 segments
Fr. Mike points out how advice from books like Proverbs and Sirach may not apply perfectly to every situation, but are meant to help guide us towards wisdom. He also highlights a piece from Sirach…
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All his brothers and all who had joined his father helped him; they gladly fought for Israel.
He extended the glory of his people; like a giant he put on his breastplate, he belted on his armor of war and waged battles, protecting the host by his sword.
He searched out and pursued the lawless; he burned those who troubled his people.
Lawless men shrank back for fear of him; all the evildoers were confounded, and deliverance prospered by his hand.
He went through the cities of Judah; he destroyed the ungodly out of the land; thus he turned away wrath from Israel.
He was renowned to the ends of the earth; he gathered in those who were perishing.
But Apollonius gathered together Gentiles and a large force from Samaria to fight against Israel.
When Judas learned of it, he went out to meet him, and he defeated and killed him.
Then they seized their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius and used it in battle the rest of his life.
Now when Seron, the commander of the Syrian army, heard that Judas had gathered a large company, including a body of faithful men who stayed with him and went out to battle, he said, “I will make a name for myself and win honor in the kingdom.
I will make war on Judas and his companions who scorned the king’s command.” And again a strong army of ungodly men went up with him to help him, to take vengeance on the sons of Israel.
When he approached the ascent of Beth-horon, Judas went out to meet him with a small company.
But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, “How can we, few as we are, fight against so great and strong a multitude? And we are faint, for we have eaten nothing today.” Judas said, “It is easy for many to be hemmed in by the few, for in the sight of Heaven there is no difference between saving by many or by few.
It is not on the size of the army that victory in battle depends, but strength comes from Heaven.
They come against us in great pride and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children, and to despoil us.
He himself will crush them before us; as for you, do not be afraid of them.” When he had finished speaking, he rushed suddenly against Seron and his army, and they were crushed before him.
They pursued them down the descent of Beth-horon to the plain; eight hundred of them fell, and the rest fled into the land of the Philistines.
All his brothers and all who had joined his father helped him; they gladly fought for Israel.
He extended the glory of his people; like a giant he put on his breastplate, he belted on his armor of war and waged battles, protecting the host by his sword.
He searched out and pursued the lawless; he burned those who troubled his people.
Lawless men shrank back for fear of him; all the evildoers were confounded, and deliverance prospered by his hand.
He went through the cities of Judah; he destroyed the ungodly out of the land; thus he turned away wrath from Israel.
He was renowned to the ends of the earth; he gathered in those who were perishing.
But Apollonius gathered together Gentiles and a large force from Samaria to fight against Israel.
When Judas learned of it, he went out to meet him, and he defeated and killed him.
Then they seized their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius and used it in battle the rest of his life.
Now when Seron, the commander of the Syrian army, heard that Judas had gathered a large company, including a body of faithful men who stayed with him and went out to battle, he said, “I will make a name for myself and win honor in the kingdom.
I will make war on Judas and his companions who scorned the king’s command.” And again a strong army of ungodly men went up with him to help him, to take vengeance on the sons of Israel.
When he approached the ascent of Beth-horon, Judas went out to meet him with a small company.
But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, “How can we, few as we are, fight against so great and strong a multitude? And we are faint, for we have eaten nothing today.” Judas said, “It is easy for many to be hemmed in by the few, for in the sight of Heaven there is no difference between saving by many or by few.
It is not on the size of the army that victory in battle depends, but strength comes from Heaven.
They come against us in great pride and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children, and to despoil us.
He himself will crush them before us; as for you, do not be afraid of them.” When he had finished speaking, he rushed suddenly against Seron and his army, and they were crushed before him.
They pursued them down the descent of Beth-horon to the plain; eight hundred of them fell, and the rest fled into the land of the Philistines.
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