Day 119: David's Wisdom (2026)

Father Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[on-hold music] Hi, my name's 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 nineteen. We are at the last few chapters, in fact, the last three chapters of First Samuel. First Samuel twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-one. We're also gonna be praying today Psalm eighteen. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic edition. Um, I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can go to ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you've not yet subscribed to this podcast, I invite you to consider that. And then after considering, to actually do it. That'd be really good. It really takes no time at all. You just click Subscribe, and then you're subscribed. As I said, [laughs] it is day one nineteen. We're reading First Samuel, chapter twenty-nine, chapter thirty, chapter thirty-one, and we're praying Psalm eighteen. First Samuel, chapter twenty-nine. The Philistines reject David. Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, and the Israelites were encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel. As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish, the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is not this David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with