Day 191: The Babylonian Exile (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[outro 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 ninety-one. As I said yesterday, maybe even the day before, it is the last chapters in Second Kings and Second Chronicles. We're reading Second Kings chapter twenty-five and Second Chronicles chapter thirty-six. We're also reading Proverbs chapter nine, verses one through six. Just a short reading from Proverbs today. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, and I'm 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. If you want to, you can subscribe to this podcast and receive daily episodes, as I said. Notice how I don't keep... No-- Do you ever notice this? I have not kept, like, hammering away the point about the subscription of these things. That's all. Just noting that. It is day one hundred and ninety-one. We are reading Second Kings twenty-five, Second Chronicles chapter thirty-six, and Proverbs chapter nine, verses one through six. The Second Book of Kings, chapter twenty-five. And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it; and they built siege works against it round about. So the city was besieged till the eleventh year