Day 136: Absalom Is Defeated (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, it's day one hundred and thirty-six, and we're reading from 2 Samuel chapter eighteen, 1 Chronicles chapter twenty-three, and Psalm thirty-seven is our prayer. Um, as always, the translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you wanna download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you wanna subscribe to this podcast, all you have to do is just click on Subscribe, and you will be subscribed. As I said, it is day one hundred and thirty-six. We are reading from 2 Samuel chapter eighteen, 1 Chronicles twenty-three, and we are praying Psalm thirty-seven. The Second Book of Samuel, chapter eighteen. The defeat and death of Absalom. Then David mustered the men who were with him, and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. And David sent forth the army, one-third under the command of Joab, one-third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one-third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you." But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore, it