Day 185: Hezekiah's Prayer (2026)
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Who introduces Day 185 and which scriptures will we read?
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 185. You're amazing. You're a rock star for getting this far. And because of that, we're going to read today 2 Kings chapter 19. We're going to read 2 Chronicles chapter 30, and we are going to pray together. Psalm 143. If you want to know what Bible translation I'm using, you probably can fill in the gaps.
It is the Revised Standard Version, 2nd 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. And you want to subscribe to this podcast? Well, you can. All you have to do is click subscribe. Or don't. Either way, it's good. You're good. We're here. We're a team. We're fam. They call it fam these days. Yes, fam. Here we are, community of people, Bible in the Year. We are reading on day 185, 2 Kings 19, 2 Chronicles 30, and Psalm 143. The second book of Kings chapter 19, Hezekiah consults Isaiah. When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
And he sent Eliakim who was over the household and Shebna, the secretary and the senior priests covered with sackcloth to the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz. They said to him, thus says Hezekiah, this day is a day of distress, of rebuke and of disgrace. Children have come to the birth and there is no strength to bring them forth. It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, Isaiah said to them, "'Say to your master, thus says the Lord, "'Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, "'with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.'
behold i will put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land and i will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land sennacherib's mockery the rabshakeh returned and found the king of assyria fighting against libnah for he heard that the king had left and when the king heard concerning terhaka king of ethiopia behold he has set out to fight against you he sent messengers again to hezekiah saying thus shall you speak to hezekiah king of judah do not let your god on whom you rely deceive you by promising that jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of assyria Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly.
And shall you be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezef, and the people of Eden who are in Tel Asar? Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Evah? Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. And Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, therefore they were destroyed.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who introduces Day 185 and which scriptures will we read?
0:04–6:35
2
What is the historical context of Hezekiah confronting Sennacherib?
6:35–16:14
3
How does Hezekiah respond when he receives Sennacherib’s threatening letter?
16:14–19:51
4
What message does Isaiah deliver about God’s promise to Jerusalem?
19:51–19:55