Day 178: Called Back (2026)
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Hi, my name's 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 is day 178, you guys. Wow, just good job. Holy smokes. I am so grateful and so proud of you. We're reading today 2 Kings 10. We're also diving from Hosea into Amos, the new prophet Amos. Well, not new now, but new to us today. Amos chapters 1, 2, and 3. We're also praying Psalm 110. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Version.
I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, that way you would have known that Amos was sneaking up on us today on day 178. You can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. If you also want to, you can subscribe to this podcast in your app or not. As I said, it is day 178. We are reading 2 Kings chapter 10, Amos chapters 1, 2, and 3, and we are praying Psalm 110. The second book of Kings chapter 10, Massacre of Ahab's Descendants. Now Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the rulers of the city, to the elders and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab saying, now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also and weapons, select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's house.
But they were exceedingly afraid and said, behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand? So he who was over the palace and he who was over the city together with the elders and the guardians sent to Jehu saying, we are your servants and we will do all that you bid us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes. Then he wrote to them a second letter saying, if you are on my side and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.
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Now the king's sons, 70 persons were with the great men of the city who were bringing them up. And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slew them 70 persons and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. When the messenger came and told him they have brought the heads of the king's sons, he said, lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning. Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, you are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and slew him. But who struck down all these? Know then, that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah.
So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his familiar friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining. Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Bet-Eked of the shepherds, Jehu met the kinsmen of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and he said, Who are you? And they answered, We are the kinsmen of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother. He said, Take them alive. And they took them alive and slew them at the pit of Bet-Eked, 42 persons, and he spared none of them. And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, Is your heart true to my heart, as mine is to yours?
And Jehonadab answered, It is. Jehu said, If it is, give me your hand. So he gave him his hand, and Jehu took him up with him into the chariot. And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–2:12
2
What readings are covered on Day 178 of the Bible in a Year podcast?
2:12–5:53
3
Who is Jehu and what happens in 2 Kings chapter 10?
5:53–11:47
4
How did Jehu eliminate Ahab’s dynasty and deal with potential rivals?
11:47–21:07
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Why did Jehu massacre Baal worshippers and how was he deceptive?
21:07–22:47