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

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Today, it is day 123. It is day one, two, three. We are reading from Second Samuel, chapter four. We're also reading two chapters out of First Chronicles, chapters five and six. We're also praying Psalm 26. As always, I am reading from the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. 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 slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe. Then you would be subscribed. And when everyone does that, I will no longer say that what you can't this thing at the beginning of every single day. but 123 days, my goodness, you guys, I'm so proud

to you. Keep going also, also, chapter four is relatively short in Second Samuel. And there are

some names, not as many names as in chapters five and six of First Chronicles, but the name is Ishibis right or ishpishath i've kind of fully committed to ishibishath and so i apologize if you're you're annoyed you look reading your bible and it's that you say it says ishbasheth and i would say you're probably right but i'm committed to ishibchath And so it's also fun to say. Just try it.

Try it at home.

Try it in your car as you're driving. It is a gift to be able to be here. Again, 2 Samuel, Chapter 4, 1 Chronicles, Chapter 5 and 6, and Psalm 26. 2. Samuel, Chapter 4, Ashbusheth is assassinated. When Ishibisetheth saul's son heard that abner had died in hebron

his courage failed and all israel was dismayed now saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands

the name of the one was ba anna and the name of the other rakhab sons of ramon a man of benjamin from beiroth

for beiroth also is reckoned man of Benjamin from Beiroth. For Beiroth

also is reckoned to Benjamin. The Beirothites fled to get tame and have been sojourners

there to this day. Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was

five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jesreal, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Maphibisheth. Now, the sons of Ramon, the Beirothite, Rehab and B'anah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ashibesheth as he was taking his noonday rest. And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept, so Rakab and Ba'ana his brother slipped in. When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him and slew him and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Araba all night, and brought the head of Ishibesheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, here is the head of Ishibesheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The Lord has avenged, my lord, the king this day on Saul and on his offspring. But David answered Rakab and theana, his brother, the sons of Ramon the Beirathite, as the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, when one told me, behold, Saul is dead, and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and slew him at Zikleg, which was the reward I gave him for his news. How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed,

shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?

And David commanded his young men, and they killed them,

and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron.

But they took the head of Ishibesheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron, but they took the head of Ashibesheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

1 Chronicles chapter 5. Descendants of Rubin

The sons of Rubin, the firstborn of Israel, for he was the firstborn. But because he polluted his father's couch,

his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in

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