Day 126: David's Victories (2026)

Father Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle 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. Today is day one hundred and twenty-six. We are reading from 2 Samuel chapter eight, as well as 1 Chronicles chapters ten and eleven. We're also praying Psalm sixty. As always, I am reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic edition, and 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 Subscribe, and then it's done. As I said, it's day one hundred and twenty-six. We're reading 2 Samuel chapter eight, 1 Chronicles chapters ten and eleven, and we are praying Psalm sixty. The book of 2 Samuel, chapter eight. David's wars. After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them. And David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines. And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute. David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates. And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred