Day 139: Reparation to the Gibeonites (2026)
5/19/202622 min
In today's readings, Fr. Mike highlights David's humility in two instances: when David asked the Gibeonites how he could repair their relationship after they had been mistreated by Saul, and when David takes a step back from battle. He also explains the role of the gatekeepers as people who would be responsible for guarding the doors to the Temple. The readings are 2 Samuel 21, 1 Chronicles 26, and Psalm 40.
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[on-hold music] Hi, my name is 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 thirty-nine. We are reading from Second Samuel chapter twenty-one, First Chronicles chapter twenty-six, and we're praying Psalm forty. As always, the translation of the Bible that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic edition, and I am 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 have not yet subscribed to this podcast, just click over to Subscribe and subscribe. That would be phenomenal and amazing, and you would be phenomenal and amazing. If you don't, you're probably still phenomenal and amazing. [laughs] As I said, today is day one thirty-nine. We're reading Second Samuel chapter twenty-one, First Chronicles twenty-six, and we are praying Psalm forty. The Second Book of Samuel, chapter twenty-one. David avenges the Gibeonites. Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” So the king called the Gibeonites. Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but the remnants of the Amorites. Although the sons of Israel had sworn to spare