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 into that story today, it is day 297. Gosh, you guys, congratulations. We're reading First Book of Maccabees, Chapter 16, Syrac chapter 38 and 39, as well as Proverbs, chapter 23 versus 29 through 35. As always, the Bible translation 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. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates. It is day 297. This is the last chapter in the first book of Maccabees, chapter 16, Syrac chapter 38 and 39, Proverbs chapter 23

versus 29 through 35. The first book of Maccabees, chapter 16. John went up from Gazzarra and reported to

Simon his father what Sendebius had done. And Simon called in his two older sons, Judas and John,

and said to them,

I and my brothers, and the house of my father have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this

day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times. But now,

I have grown old, and you by his mercy are mature in years. Take my place and my brothers, and go out,

and fight for our nation, and may the help which comes from heaven be with you. So John chose out of

the country 20,000 warriors and horsemen, and they marched against Sendebius and camped for the

night in Modin. Early in the morning they arose and marched into the plain, and behold a large force of

infantry and horsemen was coming to meet them, and a stream lay between them.

Then he and his army lined up against them, and he saw that the soldiers were afraid to cross

the stream, so he crossed over first, and when his men saw him, they crossed over after him.

Then he divided the army and placed the horsemen in the midst of the infantry, for the cavalry of the enemy were very numerous.

And they sounded the trumpets, and Sendebius and his army were put to flight, and many of them were

wounded and fell. The rest fled into the stronghold. At that time, Judas, the brother of John, was wounded, but John pursued

them until Sendebius reached Kedron, which he had built. They also fled into the towers that were in

the fields of Azatus, and John burned it with fire, and about two thousand of them fell, and he returned

to Judea safely. Murder of Simon and his sons. Now Ptolemy, the son of Abubus, had been appointed

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