Day 120: David Mourns Saul (2026)
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How is the Bible in a Year program expanding and how can listeners support it?
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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 120. We finally made it to this day, 120. We are reading from 2 Samuel 1. Yesterday, we said goodbye to 1 Samuel, which, of course, was all one book at one point, but we can pay no attention to that and realize that we're making progress to 2 Samuel chapter 1. We're also diving for the first time into 1 Chronicles chapter 1. We're also praying Psalm 13. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, 2nd 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 subscribe. It's that easy to do. As I mentioned, we're dipping our toes into 1 Chronicles for the first time. Now, Chronicles, it's kind of a unique book. One of the reasons it's unique is because typically it would be the last book in the Hebrew canon, right? So it would be the last book in the Jewish canon of Scripture. If it was included in that, it would be because what's happening is 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, it is going to be focused on a couple of things. One is the temple and worship.
The other is the kingdom and the Messiah. And so what we're going to find is that the person who wrote Chronicles, who might have been the scribe Ezra, we're not sure. I'm not sure. Maybe somebody knows. The person who chronicled Chronicles is basically setting the stage for ultimately the temple to be reestablished and temple worship to be given its pride of place, but also setting the stage for the Messiah. And it uses King David as the... prototype for the Messiah. So while we are going to go through 2 Samuel and hear all of the stories of not just David the great and not just David the wise, but also David the sinner, 1 and 2 Chronicles are not going to really emphasize David's sin. Now, they're not trying to obfuscate that, right?
They're not ignoring that because they know you can just read 2 Samuel and you can read the rest of the Bible, right? So with the chronicler, we'll call him the chronicler, is doing when it comes to writing about David is emphasizing David's strengths in particular, not just to glorify David, but to highlight this is what the Messiah will be like. The Messiah will have all the virtues of David plus whatever more, right?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How is the Bible in a Year program expanding and how can listeners support it?
0:00–4:57
2
Who is Father Mike and what is the Bible in a Year format for Day 120?
4:57–10:12
3
Why are we starting 1 Chronicles now and what is the chronicler’s purpose?
10:12–12:59
4
What themes does 1 Chronicles emphasize about the temple, worship, and the Messiah?
12:59–19:18
5
What happens in 2 Samuel 1 when David learns of Saul and Jonathan’s deaths?
19:18–19:43