Day 144: David's Last Words (2025)

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🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Fr. Mike looks into David's last words to his son Solomon and explains why it could have been hard for him to take David's advice. He also points out the important role of the mother of the king, and how this will foreshadow the role of Mary in the New Testament. Today's readings are 1 Kings 2, 2 Chronicles 2-3, and Psalm 62.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's 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 brought to you by
0:12.8	Ascension using the great adventure Bible timeline. We'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:18.0	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story
0:21.1	today. It is day 144. We're reading from First Kings chapter 2 and 2 and 2. So three chapters
0:30.3	in the Old Testament, including the fourth hidden special chapter of Psalm 62 that we're going to pray
0:36.0	today. As always, the Bible translation that I
0:38.3	am reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the great
0:41.9	adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan,
0:45.6	you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And if you've not yet subscribed to this
0:49.2	podcast, you can do that and you'd be subscribed and it would be phenomenal. It is day 144 where we're reading
0:56.2	from the first book of Kings chapter 2, second book of Chronicles chapters 2 and 3, and we are praying
1:01.3	Psalm 62. The first book of kings chapter 2, David's instructions to Solomon.
1:09.4	When David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon,
1:13.0	his son saying, I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,
1:19.2	and keep the charge of the Lord your God walking in his ways and keeping his statutes,
1:23.8	his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses,
1:29.1	that you may prosper and all that you do, and wherever you turn, that the Lord may establish his
1:34.2	word which he spoke concerning me, saying, if your sons shall heed to their way, to walk before me
1:40.0	in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on
1:45.2	the throne of Israel. Moreover, you know also what Joab, the son of Zeruayah, did to me, how he dealt
1:51.7	with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Nur, and Amasa, the son of Jethar,
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