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 144. We're reading from First Kings chapter 2 and 2 and 2. So three chapters

in the Old Testament, including the fourth hidden special chapter of Psalm 62 that we're going to pray

today. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version, the 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. And if you've not yet subscribed to this podcast, you can do that and you'd be subscribed and it would be phenomenal. It is day 144 where we're reading

from the first book of Kings chapter 2, second book of Chronicles chapters 2 and 3, and we are praying

Psalm 62. The first book of kings chapter 2, David's instructions to Solomon.

When David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon,

his son saying, I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,

and keep the charge of the Lord your God walking in his ways and keeping his statutes,

his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses,

that you may prosper and all that you do, and wherever you turn, that the Lord may establish his

word which he spoke concerning me, saying, if your sons shall heed to their way, to walk before me

in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on

the throne of Israel. Moreover, you know also what Joab, the son of Zeruayah, did to me, how he dealt

with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Nur, and Amasa, the son of Jethar,

whom he murdered, avenging in time of peace, blood which had been shed in war, and putting innocent

blood upon the belt about my loins, and upon the sandals on my feet. Act, therefore, according to your

wisdom. But do not let his gray head go down to Shaol in peace, but deal loyally with the sons of

Barzili, the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother. And there is also with you Shemiay, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying,

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