Day 184: Hezekiah Reigns (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle 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 eighty-four. This is our first day in the next time period, the Baby Blues. As you probably heard, Jeff introduced [laughs] this time period in the podcast before this. Hopefully, you got to listen to that interview setting the stage for the period of the exile. So the Baby Blues or the blues are being sung because exile. Yeah, horrible. But we are reading Second Kings, chapter eighteen today, second Chronicles twenty-nine, and we're praying Psalm one hundred and forty-one. If you've been a little bit [laughs] overwhelmed by the length of the last couple days, you know, we had lots and lots of chapters. Today is only three chapters, which is, is great. And also, we're back in sync with Second Kings and Second Chronicles. We're back in the same time period. Remember that Second Kings is kind of written as the thing happened or, you know, at least right after the events happened. Second Chronicles is likely the last final book written in the Old Testament chronologically at least. And so this is looking back and retelling the story or telling the story again, retelling the story. So that's what we got going on today. As always, the Bible translation I'm using 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. It is day one hundred and eighty-four.