Day 124: King David Rules (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[outro jingle] 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 twenty-four. We're reading from Second Samuel chapter five, as well as First Chronicles chapters seven and eight. We're also praying from Psalm twenty-seven. As always, I am reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear, and you can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on Subscribe. Simple as that. As I said, it is day one hundred and twenty-four. We're reading Second Samuel chapter five and First Chronicles seven and eight and Psalm twenty-seven. Second Samuel chapter five. David anointed king of all Israel. Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh. In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'" So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.