Day 176: Choosing Eternal Life (2026)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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 176.
What readings are covered on Day 176 and which Bible translation is used?
We're reading from 2 Kings chapter 8, from Hosea chapters 8, 9, and 10, and we're also praying Psalm 108. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, 2nd Catholic Edition, and I am 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 if you'd like. But as I said yesterday, I'm not a pusher. In fact, I think I said yesterday, you don't even have to do, I don't even want you to do that anymore. So, oh brother, day 176, getting to me. Here we are reading 2 Kings 8, Hosea 8, 9, and 10, and praying Psalm 108. The second book of Kings chapter eight, the Shunammite woman's land restored.
Now Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, arise and depart with your household and sojourn wherever you can. For the Lord has called for a famine and will come upon the land for seven years. So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went forth to appeal to the king for her house and her land. Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God saying, tell me all the great things that Elisha has done. And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land.
And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life. And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now. the death of Ben-Hadad. Now Elisha came to Damascus. Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, was sick. And when it was told him, the man of God has come here, the king said to Hazael, take a present with you and go to meet the man of God and inquire of the Lord through him saying, shall I recover from this sickness? So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, 40 camel loads.
When he came and stood before him, he said, Your son Ben-Hadad, king of Syria, has sent me to you, saying, Shall I recover from this sickness? And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You shall certainly recover. But the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die. And he fixed his gaze and stared at him until he was ashamed. And the man of God wept. And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will slay their young men with the sword, and dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child. And Hazael said, What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?
Elisha answered, The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria. Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And he answered, He told me that you would certainly recover. But the next day he took the coverlet and dipped it in water and spread it over his face till he died. And Hazael became king in his stead. Jehoram reigns over Judah. In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign. He was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:22
2
What readings are covered on Day 176 and which Bible translation is used?
0:22–4:52
3
What happens when Elisha warns the Shunammite woman about the seven-year famine?
4:52–8:39
4
How does the story of Ben-Hadad and Hazael explain a royal transition in Syria?
8:39–13:43
5
What political and moral summary does 2 Kings give about Jehoram, Ahaziah, and their reigns?
13:43–20:57
6
How does Hosea 8 describe Israel's idolatry and the consequences of forgetting God?
20:57–21:02