Fr. Mike looks into David's last words to his son Solomon and explains why it could have been hard for him to take David's advice. He also points out the important role of the mother of the king, and how this will foreshadow the role of Mary in the New Testament. Today's readings are 1 Kings 2, 2 Chronicles 2-3, and Psalm 62. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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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 144. We're reading from 1 Kings 2 and 2 Chronicles 2-3. So three chapters in the Old Testament, including the fourth hidden special chapter of Psalm 62 that we're going to pray today.
As always, the Bible translation that I am 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.
And if you've not yet subscribed to this podcast, you can do that and you'd be subscribed and it would be phenomenal. It is day 144. We're rereading from the first book of Kings chapter two, Second book of Chronicles chapters two and three, and we are praying Psalm 62. The first book of Kings chapter two, David's instructions to Solomon.
When David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon, his son saying, I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong and show yourself a man and keep the charge of the Lord, your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper and all that you do and wherever you turn.
that the Lord may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your sons shall heed to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me,
how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he murdered, avenging in time of peace blood which had been shed in war and putting innocent blood upon the belt about my loins and upon the sandals on my feet. Act therefore according to your wisdom."
But do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace, but deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai, the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom, your brother. And there is also with you Shimei, the son of Gerah, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim.
But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword. Now therefore, hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol. death and burial of David. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
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