ESV Audio Bible, Read by David Cochran Heath

by David Cochran Heath (reader)

Audio CD

Published March 28, 2024

About the author

David Cochran Heath has worked in radio and theater for thirty-five years. He has voiced characters for computer games and public television, hosted an instructional video series for automotive repair, and was the narrator for a long-running radio program for kids. Additionally, he was the on-camera host for a documentary on the most violent courtroom shootout in US history. David lived in a village in the Philippines for four years as a teenager, and has lived with his wife in Michigan, Washington, and California. He was with Lamb's Players Theatre in Coronado, California, for thirty-one years, working full-time as a senior member of the acting ensemble and serving as the company's director of facilities. He left Lamb's Players in 2011 to concentrate on audiobooks, and has been the narrator of over 140 books, including three versions of the Bible as sole reader: ESV, KJV, and NIrV. David gets his love of stories from his father, who was a preacher for twenty-five years, a missionary for another eighteen years, and a lifelong lover of the most important story of all: God's plan of redemption in all sixty-six books of the Bible.

Reviews

[ladydusk · Rating 5 out of 5]

I determined to listen to the Bible as I do other Audiobooks - when walking, driving, cooking, (cleaning) or generally convenient. I did find a schedule to read in 30 days that I generally followed, but I got ahead each week so I had Sundays off; and today I finished the epistles and Revelation because ... I couldn't not and had a lot of listening time available. I also listened at 1.7x speed.

Familiar books were easier than less familiar; the NT was easier than the OT. I'd split Psalms into 5 per day instead of one big block if I were to do it again. Which, I think this is a great January project, so seems likely.

God's story from Genesis to Revelation at this speed helped me catch things closer together (one example I've told a lot of people is that Solomon shows everything to the Queen of Sheba and is commended; Hezekiah shows to Babylon's emissaries and is condemned. Why?) I particularly appreciated the Minor Prophets read as one piece and the Epistles read as one letter; the logic of the letter flows and makes sense in context.

I would not choose to read the Bible this way all of the time. I did this reading apart from my regular devotional reading. I was greatly encouraged to hear God's Word in this way from an excellent reader and really be immersed in it.