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 one hundred and eighty-four.

This is our first day in the next time period.

The baby blues, as you probably heard, Jeff introduce this time period in the podcast.

Before this, hopefully you got to listen to that interview, setting the stage for the period of the exile.

So the baby blues are being sung because exile. Yeah, horrible. But we are reading

Second Kings chapter 18 today. Second Chronicles 29 and we're praying Psalm 141 if you've been a little

bit overwhelmed by the length of the last couple days. You know, we had lots and lots of chapters.

Today is only three chapters, which is great. And also we're back in sync with Second Kings and Second Chronicles. We're back in the same time period. Remember that Second Kings is kind of written as the thing happened, or, you know, at least right after the events happened. Second Chronicles is likely the last final book written in the Old Testament, chronologically at least. And so this is looking back and retelling

the story or telling the story again, retelling the story. So that's what we got going on today. As always, the Bible translation I'm using 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.

It is day 184.

We're reading 2nd Kings chapter 18, second chronicles

chapter 29, and we are praying Psalm 141. The second book of kings chapter 18. Hezekiah

reigns over Judah. In the third year of Hoseiah, son of Eilah, king of Israel,

Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. He was 25 years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abbe, the daughter of Zechariah,

and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David

his father had done. He removed the high places, and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah.

And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days, the sons

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