Day 148: Solomon's Wealth (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[on-hold 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 one hundred and forty-eight. We're reading from First Kings chapter six, Second Chronicles chapter nine, and we are praying Psalm four, going all the way back to the beginning of the Book of Psalms. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic edition. I am 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. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on Subscribe in wherever-- whatever app or whatever application you are listening to this Bible today. One thing to keep in mind is the fact that today we are going... In First Kings, we're going to look at King Solomon building the temple, and there's a lot of dimensions, a lot of cubits involved in this. And so if you want to have kind of a, a little more accurate sense of, like, how to picture this, if you are anywhere near a computer, it might be helpful for you to pull up something like King Solomon's Temple or dimensions of King Solomon's Temple. They mi-- And it would probably give you some images people have recreated that would say, "It probably looked something like this." That could just be helpful because chapter six is very detailed. It's great. It's awesome. But it sometimes is hard to picture because we're gonna-- I'm gonna be giving you a word picture from the Bible, from First Kings chapter six, and if you want to have an actual picture,