Day 299: Jeremiah Hides the Ark (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike discusses the story of Jeremiah and the Ark of the Covenant, offering insight on where it was hidden and how that affected the people of God. He also looks ahead to the rest of 2 Maccabees and poses a question for all of us: What will the people who love us remember about us? Today’s readings are 2 Maccabees 2, Sirach 42-44, and Proverbs 24:8-9.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.6	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.6	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.0	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.0	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.7	It is day 299.
0:22.7	You guys, I can do the math today.
0:24.9	There are 66 more.
0:26.6	This easy math for me.
0:27.9	Tomorrow will be even easier.
0:29.3	We'll be 65 days tomorrow.
0:30.6	66 days left today.
0:32.5	It is day 299.
0:33.5	We're reading the second book of the Maccabees, Chapter 2, also Syrac, chapter 4, 43, and 44, as well as Proverbs 24 verses 8 and 9. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version, the 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. If you haven't done it yet, why not? Get in on the last 66 days. Why not do it today? Also, did you know that you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe in whatever place you like to listen to podcasts? As I said, today is D-299. We're reading Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, Syrac 42, 43 three and forty four proverbs chapter twenty four verses eight and nine the second book of the maccabees chapter two
1:17.7	jeremiah hides the tent ark and altar one finds in the records that jeremiah the prophet ordered those who were being deported to take some of the fire as has been
1:27.8	told, and that the prophet after giving them the law instructed those who were being deported
1:32.3	not to forget the commandments of the Lord, nor to be led astray in their thoughts upon seeing the
1:37.0	gold and silver statues and their adornment. And with other similar words, he exhorted them that the law
1:42.4	should not depart from their hearts.
1:49.0	It was also in the writing that the prophet having received an oracle ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up
1:53.7	and had seen the inheritance of God. And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there
1:58.9	the tent and the ark and the altar of incense,
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