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.

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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.

In that story today, it is day 186. We are reading today from 2nd Kings, chapter 20, from 2nd Chronicles, chapter 31.

We're also praying Psalm 144. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version of the 2nd Catholic edition.

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As I say, it is today. It is today.

Today is the day it is. It's day 186. And we are reading 2nd Kings, 20 2nd Chronicles, 31. And we are praying Psalm 144.

2nd Kings, chapter 20, Hasakaya's illness.

In those days, Hasakaya became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, came to him and said to him,

Thus says the Lord, said your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.

Then Hasakaya turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying,

Remember now, O Lord, I beg you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.

And Hasakaya wept bitterly. And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him, turn back, and say to Hasakaya, the Prince of my people,

Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears, behold, I will heal you.

On the third day, you shall go up to the house of the Lord. And I will add 15 years to your life, I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria,

And I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake. And as Isaiah said, bring a cake of figs, and let them take and lay it on the boil that he may recover.

And Hasakaya said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

And Isaiah said, This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised.

Shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps? And Hasakaya answered, It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps.

Rather, let the shadow go back ten steps. And as Isaiah the prophet cried to the Lord, and he brought the shadow back ten steps by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz.

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