Day 184: Hezekiah Reigns (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 184. This is our first day in the next time period, the baby blues. As you probably heard Jeff introduce this time period in the podcast before this, hopefully you got to listen to that interview today. setting the stage for the period of the exile. So the baby blues or the blues are being sung because exile.
Yeah, horrible. But we are reading 2 Kings chapter 18 today, 2 Chronicles 29, and we're praying Psalm 141. If you've been a little bit... overwhelmed by the length of the last couple days. We had lots and lots of chapters. Today, it's only three chapters, which is great. And also, we're back in sync with 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. We're back in the same time period. Remember that 2 Kings is kind of written as the thing happened, or at least right after the events happened. 2 Chronicles is likely the last final book written in the Old Testament, chronologically at least. And so this is looking back and retelling the story or telling the story again, retelling the story.
What overview does Father Mike give about Day 184 and today's readings?
So that's what we got going on today. As always, the Bible translation I'm using is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. 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. It is day 184. We're reading 2 Kings chapter 18, 2 Chronicles chapter 29, and we are praying Psalm 141. The second book of Kings, chapter 18. Hezekiah reigns over Judah. In the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. He was 25 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made. For until those days, the sons of Israel had burned incense to it. It was called Nehushtan. He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him. For he held fast to the Lord. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses. And the Lord was with him. Wherever he went forth, he prospered.
He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him. He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory from watchtower to fortified city. In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it. And at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken. The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded.
They neither listened nor obeyed. Sennacherib invades Judah. In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to the king of Assyria at Lachshish, saying, I have done wrong. Withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me, I will bear. And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah 300 talents of silver and 30 talents of gold.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–1:13
2
What overview does Father Mike give about Day 184 and today's readings?
1:13–8:09
3
How does 2 Kings 18 introduce King Hezekiah’s reign and actions?
8:09–11:24
4
Why did Hezekiah destroy the bronze serpent and other high places?
11:24–14:56
5
What happened when Sennacherib and the Assyrians besieged Israel and Judah?
14:56–20:51
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How did the Rabshakeh’s speech try to undermine Jerusalem’s confidence?
20:51–23:11