Day 143: Solomon Asks for Wisdom (2025)

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike starts to unpack the character of Solomon and explains how we can see the beginning of his downfall in today's readings. Although Solomon has been blessed with wisdom, he lacks obedience, which is much more important in maintaining a relationship with God. Today's readings are 1 Kings 1, 2 Chronicles 1, and Psalm 43.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.9	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is
0:12.5	brought to you by Ascension using the Great Adventure Bible timeline. We'll read all the way from
0:16.4	Genesis to Revelation. Discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today,
0:21.6	we are on day 143. And we are reading from 1st Kings chapter 1, second chronicles chapter 1,
0:28.5	and we're praying Psalm 43 as always. The Bible translation that I am reading from is the revised
0:33.1	standard version, the second Catholic edition. And I am using the great adventure Bible from
0:36.7	Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit
0:39.7	ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And if you did, you would realize that we are on a new
0:44.3	sheet of paper, which apparently I get very excited about, but I am getting very excited about it,
0:48.8	because it means that we are trekking through the scriptures, and that is a gift. If you want to subscribe to this podcast,
0:55.0	you can click on subscribe, and you will be subscribed, and that's subscriptions abound. As I said,
1:00.1	today is day 143. We're reading from the first chapter of Kings, First Kings, and the first
1:06.1	chapter of Second Chronicles, we were praying Psalm 43.
1:13.6	The first book of the Kings, Chapter 1.
1:17.6	The struggle for succession to the throne.
1:20.6	Now King David was old and advanced in years, and although they covered him with clothes,
1:25.6	he could not get warm. Therefore, his
1:27.8	servants said to him, let a young maiden be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait upon the king
1:32.5	and be his nurse, and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may be warm. So they sought for a
1:38.1	beautiful maiden throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abysheg, the Shunamite, and brought her to the king. The maiden was very beautiful,
1:45.1	and she became the king's nurse and ministered to him, but the king knew her not. Now Adonijah, the son
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