Day 185: Hezekiah's Prayer (2025)

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike continues to emphasize Hezekiah's faithfulness as he turns to God in prayer in the midst of battle, and reinstitutes the Passover feast. Today we read 2 Kings 19, 2 Chronicles 30, and Psalm 143.

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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
0:07.7	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is
0:11.9	brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from
0:15.6	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story
0:20.3	today. It is day 185.
0:22.7	You're amazing.
0:23.7	You're a rock star for getting this far.
0:27.3	And because of that, we're going to read today, 2nd Kings chapter 19.
0:30.4	We're going to read Second Chronicles chapter 30, and we are going to pray together, Psalm 143.
0:35.3	If you want to know what Bible translation I'm using, you probably can fill in the
0:39.1	gaps. It is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I am using the great adventure
0:43.1	Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit
0:46.5	ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And you want to subscribe to this podcast? Well, you can. All you have to do is click subscribe. Or don't. Either way, it's good.
0:55.9	You're good. We're here. We're team. We're fam. They call it fam these days.
1:01.5	Yes, fam. Here we are. Community of People Bible in the Year. We are reading on day 185,
1:07.6	2nd Kings 19, 2nd Chronicles 30, and Psalm 143.
1:13.6	The second book of kings, chapter 19, Hezekiah consults Isaiah.
1:18.9	When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth,
1:23.5	and went into the house of the Lord.
1:25.2	And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household and Shabna,
1:27.9	the secretary and the senior priests covered with sackcloth to the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amos.
1:33.3	They said to him, thus says Hezekiah, this day is a day of distress, of rebuke and of disgrace.
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