Day 239: Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (2026)

**Fr. Mike Schmitz** (0:04)
Hi, my name is Fr. 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 239, top of the page. Here we are as I keep mentioning that, maybe it's a little bit annoying, but it is day 239 We only have three sheets left. I mean, not even three complete sheets. You guys, you are so far. Well done. We're reading Jeremiah 22, Daniel chapter 3 and Proverbs chapter 15 verses 29 to 33 Yesterday was kind of a longer reading. So the next two days, we have a little bit shorter reading. So as I said, Jeremiah 22, Daniel 3, Proverbs 15 to 29 through 33 As always, the Bible translation I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Nation. I'm 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/bible in a Year and if you like to, you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates and everything every day because today is day 239 We're reading Jeremiah 22, Daniel 3, Proverbs 15, verses 29 through 33
The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapter 22, Exhortation to Repentance. Thus says the Lord, Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word and say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates. Thus says the Lord, Do justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed and do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. But if you will not heed these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation. For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah, You are as Gilead to me, as the summit of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city. I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire. And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city? And they will answer, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them. Weep not for him who is dead, nor bemoan him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.
Message to the sons of Josiah. For thus says the Lord concerning Shalom, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place. He shall return here no more. But in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbors serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, who says, I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms, and cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion. Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy. Then it was well.
Is not this to know me, says the Lord? But you have eyes and heart only for dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood and for practicing oppression and violence. Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah. They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah, my brother, or Ah, sister. They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah, Lord, or Ah, his majesty. With the burial of a donkey, he shall be buried, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.