Day 173: Confidence in God (2026)
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What passages are we reading on Day 173 of the Bible in a Year?
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 173. We have three chapters. We have 2 Kings chapter 4. We have 2 Chronicles chapter 28 and Psalm 127. As I mentioned before a thousand times, we are 172 times. The Bible translation that we are reading from is a 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'd like to subscribe to this podcast, you can click on subscribe to receive daily episodes. As I said yesterday, I don't know if you caught this, at the end of the commentary, I guess, this is our last day in 2 Chronicles for roughly the next, I don't know if I'm bad at math, maybe nine days. We're taking a little nine-day hiatus because we're jumping into some prophets. And we have Elijah the prophet and Elisha the prophet who have not written anything that we know of. But we're also going to the written prophets because those written prophets have a word. And that word is a word of correction.
It is a word that is of warning. And it is a word that is calling the people of Israel and the kingdom of Israel in the north. back to faithfulness, covenant faithfulness with God. And we'll see what happens. They may or may not listen. Spoiler, they don't. So we're going to hear those prophets in the next nine days. And that's going to be Hosea and Amos and Jonah and Micah. Although Jonah didn't go to the prophets, he didn't go to the north. He went to a place called Nineveh. It's a whole nother story. I can't wait to get there when we get there. But today we are here on day 173 with 2 Kings chapter 4, 2 Chronicles chapter 28. We are praying Psalm 127. 2 Kings 4 Elisha and the Widow's Jar of Oil Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.
And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what have you in the house? And she said, Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil. Then he said, Go outside, borrow vessels of all your neighbors, empty vessels, and not too few. Then go in, and shut the door upon yourself and your sons, and pour into all these vessels, and when one is full, set it aside. So she went from him, and shut the door upon herself and her sons, and as she poured, they brought the vessels to her. When the vessels were full, she said to her son, Bring me another vessel. And he said to her, There is not another. Then the oil stopped flowing. She came and told the man of God and he said, go sell the oil and pay your debts and you and your sons can live on the rest.
Elisha and the Shunammite couple. One day, Elisha went on to Shunamm where a wealthy woman lived who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. And she said to her husband, behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way. let us make a small roof chamber with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there. One day he came there and he turned into the chamber and rested there. And he said to Gehazi, his servant, call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him, and he said to him, Say now to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us.
What is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army? She answered, I dwell among my own people.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What passages are we reading on Day 173 of the Bible in a Year?
0:04–4:14
2
Why are we pausing Chronicles to read the prophets next?
4:14–7:45
3
How does Elisha respond to the widow about her debt and jar of oil?
7:45–16:08
4
What lessons about faith does the widow’s oil miracle teach?
16:08–18:30
5
How did Elisha bless the hospitable Shunammite couple and promise a son?
18:30–23:05
6
How did Elisha restore the Shunammite woman’s dead son and what does it mean?
23:05–24:31