Day 185: Hezekiah's Prayer (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[outro jingle] 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-five. You're amazing. You're, you're a rock star for getting, [chuckles] getting this far. And because of that, we're gonna read today Second Kings chapter nineteen. We're gonna read Second Chronicles chapter thirty, and we are going to pray together Psalm one hundred and forty-three. If you want to know what Bible translation I'm using, you probably can fill in the gaps. It is the Revised Standard Version, 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. And you want to subscribe to this podcast? Well, you can. All you have to do is click subscribe. Or don't. Either way, it's good. You're good. We're here. We're a team. We're fam. They call it fam these days. [chuckles] Yes, fam. Here we are, community of people, Bible in a Year. We are reading on day one eighty-five Second Kings nineteen, Second Chronicles thirty, and Psalm one hundred and forty-three. The Second Book of Kings, chapter nineteen. Hezekiah consults Isaiah. When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered