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 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 148. We're reading from 1st Kings chapter 6, 2nd Chronicles chapter 9, and we are praying

Psalm 4, going all the way back to the beginning of the book of Psalms. As always, the Bible

translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition.

I am 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, but click on, subscribe in whatever app, whatever application

you are listening to this Bible today. One thing to keep in mind is the fact that today we are going

in First Kings, we're going to look at king

Solomon building the temple and there's a lot of dimensions a lot of cubits involved in this

and so if you want to have kind of a little more accurate sense of like how to picture this

if you are anywhere near a computer it might be helpful for you to pull up something like

king solomon's temple or dimensions of King Solomon's Temple.

They might, and it would probably give you some images.

People have recreated that would say it probably looked something like this.

That could just be helpful because Chapter 6 is very detailed.

It's great.

It's awesome.

But it sometimes is hard to picture because I'm going to be giving you a word picture

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