Day 189: Follow the Lord (2026)
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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 189. It's the last day on this whatever number page this is, maybe page three. Gosh, for crying out loud. Day 189, we're reading 2 Kings 23, 2 Chronicles 34. We're also reading Proverbs chapter 8, verses 1 through 21. As always, the Bible translation that I'm using is the 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 plans, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. If you want to subscribe to this podcast, you can. And if you don't, you don't have to. But I'm going to keep reminding you because that's my job. That's one of the things... that I've been told to do, so I'd do it. Okay, here we are. We are at Josiah. We got introduced to him yesterday, and just phenomenal, really great king, and yet every good thing comes to an end. Every good king comes to an end. Every good kingdom comes to an end, and we are getting closer and closer to the end of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, which means we're getting closer and closer to the end of this time of Israel.
They're gone, the kingdom of Israel. They're nation of Israel, that is gone. Also, the kingdom of Judah is about to be put into, spoiler alert, into exile coming up soon. Today, 189, we have 2 Kings 23, 2 Chronicles 34, Proverbs 8, chapter 1, verses 1 through 21. The second book of Kings, chapter 23, Josiah's reforms.
Who is Josiah and which readings are we covering today?
Then the king sent and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him. And the king went up to the house of the Lord and with him, all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant, which had been found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his covenants and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant. And the king commanded Hilkiah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven.
He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. And he deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of Judah and round about Jerusalem. those also who burned incense to baal to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the hosts of the heavens and he brought out the asherah from the house of the lord outside jerusalem to the brook kidron and burned it at the brook kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city. However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–1:43
2
Who is Josiah and which readings are we covering today?
1:43–10:53
3
What reforms does 2 Kings 23 describe Josiah doing to remove idolatry?
10:53–15:08
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How did Josiah handle altars, Asherah poles, and cultic objects in Jerusalem and Bethel?
15:08–22:32