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 246. We're reading three chapters today, Jeremiah 32, as well as Judith

chapters one and two, which is a new book for us. Maybe a new book for you entirely because of the

fact that in Catholic Bibles and Orthodox Bibles, Judith is there, but in some Protestant

Bibles, it is not. So this will be a great introduction to all of us to Judith 1 and 2, as well as Proverbs chapter 16 versus 25 through 28. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, 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.

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As I said, today is day 246.

Well done, by the way.

Jeremiah 32, Judith 1 and 2 in Proverbs chapter 16 versus 25 through 28.

The book of the prophet Jeremiah, chapter 32. Jeremiah buys a field at Anathoth. The word that came to

Jeremiah from the Lord in the 10th year of Zedekiah, King of Judah, which was the 18th year of

Nebuchadnezzar. At that time, the army of the King of Babylon, was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah, the prophet, was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the palace of the King of Judah. For Zedekiah, King of Judah, had imprisoned him, saying, why do you prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. Zedekiah, king of Judah, shall not escape out of the hand of the Kaldians, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye, and he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain

until I visit him, says the Lord. Though you fight against the Kaleans, you shall not succeed.

Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me. Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shalom, your uncle,

will come to you and say, buy my field, which is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by

purchase is yours. Then Hanamel, my cousin, came to me in the court of the guard in accordance with

the word of the Lord, and said to me, buy my field, which is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

for the right of possession and redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

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