Day 125: Covenant with David (2026)
5/5/202632 min
Fr. Mike highlights the moment God makes a covenant with David, promising him an everlasting dynasty, but reserving the building of the Temple to David's son Solomon. He also teaches us how 2 Samuel 7 foreshadows the fact that the Blessed Mother is the new Ark of the Covenant. Today's readings are 2 Samuel 6-7, 1 Chronicles 9, and Psalm 89.
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[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, [laughs] 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-five. We're reading two chapters from 2 Samuel, 2 Samuel chapter six and seven, and only one chapter from 1 Chronicles. That is 1 Chronicles chapter nine. We're also praying Psalm eighty-nine. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic edition, um, read-- actually reading 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. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on Subscribe. As we all know by now, [laughs] you probably have it memorized by now, unless you click thirty-second fast-forward three times, and then [clicks] it's like clicking your heels, and you're back in Kansas. As I said, it's day one hundred and twenty-five. We're reading 2 Samuel chapter six and seven, 1 Chronicles chapter nine, and Psalm eighty-nine. 2 Samuel chapter six, David brings the ark to Jerusalem. David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Ba'al Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim. And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on