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.

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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's day 136.

We're reading from 2nd Samuel chapter 18, First Chronicles, chapter 23, and Psalm 37 is our

prayer.

As always, the translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second

Catholic edition.

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it is day 136. We are reading from 2nd Samuel chapter 18, 1st Chronicles 23, and we are praying

Psalm 37. The second book of Samuel, chapter 18.

The defeat and death of Absalom.

Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands

and commanders of hundreds.

And David sent forth the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command

of Abashai, the son of Zirwaya, Joab's brother, and one-third under the command of Ittai, the Gittite. And the king said to the men, I myself will also go out with you, but the men said, you shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth

ten thousand of us. Therefore, it is better that you send us help from the city. The king said to

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