Day 144: David's Last Words (2026)

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 is day 144. We are reading from I Kings 2 and II Chronicles chapters two and three. So three chapters in the Old Testament, including the fourth hidden special chapter of Psalm 62 that we're gonna pray today. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the 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've not yet subscribed to this podcast, you can do that, and you'd be subscribed, and it would be phenomenal. It is day 144 where we are reading from the First Book of Kings chapter two, Second Book of Chronicles chapters two and three, and we are praying Psalm 62. The First Book of Kings chapter two. David's instructions to Solomon. "When David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, 'I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper