Hi, my name's 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 248.

We are reading from Jeremiah, chapter 35 and 36, as well as Judith, chapters 6 and 7,

and Proverbs chapter 17, verses 1 through 4.

As always, the Bible translation I am reading from is the revised standard version, second

Catholic edition.

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no big deal. It does, I don't take it personally. It's, it's fine. It's fine. You guys,

it's fine. As I said, it's day 248. We're reading Jeremiah 35 and 36, Judith, 6 and 7,

and Proverbs chapter 17, verses 1 4 the book of Jeremiah chapter 35 the

Reckabites commended the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiacim the son of

Josiah king of Judah go to the house of the Reckabites and speak with them and bring them to the

house of the Lord into one of the chambers, then offer them wine to drink. So I took Shaazanaia, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazania, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Reckabites. I brought them to the house of the Lord into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdalaia, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Maasaya, the son of Shalom, keeper of the threshold. Then I sat before the Reckabites, pitchers full of wine and cups, and I said to them, drink wine. But they answered, we will drink no wine. For Jonadab, the son of Reckhab, our father commanded us,

you shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever. You shall not build a house.

You shall not sow seed. You shall not plant or have a vineyard. But you shall live in tents all

your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn. We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Reckhab, our father, and all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed, but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that

Jonadab, our father commanded us. But when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against the land,

we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem, for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of

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