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2 Chronicles 19 - The Mixed Prophecy for King Jehoshaphat · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Howdy end, Good morning, faithful listeners. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in to the Bible Explain podcast
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Speaker 1: and starting out your week right with the Bible. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about Second Chronicles nineteen today and this
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Speaker 1: prophecy that Jahashaphat gets after going out to war with
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Speaker 1: King a Hab, and it's a mixed prophecy, so we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that in just a second. And as always,
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Speaker 1: Grab your cup of coffee or your cup of team,
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Speaker 1: and also your version of the Bible that you prefer.
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Speaker 1: But as always, I'll be reading out of the web
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Speaker 1: this morning. This is the entire chapter of Second Chronicles nineteen,
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Speaker 1: but it's very short, only eleven verses. So let's go
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Speaker 1: ahead and read this and talk about this prophecy along
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Speaker 1: with all of the other reforms that Jehoshapat does in Judah. Again,
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Speaker 1: this is the Second Chronicle is nineteen. Let's give reverence
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Speaker 1: to God's word together. Jehoshaphat, the King of Judah, returned
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Speaker 1: to his house in peace to Jerusalem. Jaehu, the son
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Speaker 1: of Hanani. The seer went out to meet him, and
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Speaker 1: he said to King Jehoshaphat, should you help the wicked
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Speaker 1: and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this wrath
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Speaker 1: is on you from before Yahweh. Nevertheless, there are good
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Speaker 1: things found in you, and that you've put away the
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Speaker 1: asterith out of the land and have set your heart
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Speaker 1: to seek God. Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem, and he went
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Speaker 1: out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill
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Speaker 1: country of Ephriam, and brought them back to Yahweh, the
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Speaker 1: God of their fathers. He set judges in the land
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Speaker 1: throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
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Speaker 1: and said to the judges, consider what you do, for
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Speaker 1: you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh, and He
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Speaker 1: is with you in the judgment. Now, therefore, let the
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Speaker 1: fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it,
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Speaker 1: for there is no iniquity with Yahwehar God, nor respect
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Speaker 1: of persons, nor taking of bribes. Moreover, in Jerusalem, Jehoshaph
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Speaker 1: had appointed certain levites, priests and heads of the father's
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Speaker 1: households of Israel to give judgment for Yahweh and for
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Speaker 1: controversies they return to Jerusalem. He commanded them, saying, you
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Speaker 1: shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully and
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Speaker 1: with a perfect heart. Whenever any controversies come to you
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Speaker 1: from your brothers who dwell in their cities between blood
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Speaker 1: and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you
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Speaker 1: must warn them that they not be guilty toward Yahweh.
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Speaker 1: And so wrath come on you and your brothers. Do this,
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Speaker 1: and you will not be guilty. Behold, Amarya, the chief
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Speaker 1: Priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh, and Zabadiah,
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Speaker 1: the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the House of Judah,
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Speaker 1: in all the king's matters. Also, the levites shall be
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Speaker 1: officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with
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Speaker 1: the good. So forgive me. If you hear some wind
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Speaker 1: in the background, that's because my window is open right now,
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Speaker 1: because it is a beautiful day outside. It's like almost
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Speaker 1: sixty degrees, which is amazing for where I live, especially
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Speaker 1: at this time of the year, and it's just beautiful outside.
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Speaker 1: So I opened my window because a day like this
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Speaker 1: does not come very often in my area. So you
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Speaker 1: might hear some wind, and I apologize for that, but
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Speaker 1: let's get into the chapter for today. So it says
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Speaker 1: that Jehosha Fat, the King of Judah, returned to his
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Speaker 1: house in peace to Jerusalem. So you'll remember what we
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Speaker 1: talked about last week. Jehosh Fat actually helped King Ahab
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Speaker 1: up in Israel go to war with the Syrians. But
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Speaker 1: this was a really, really bad idea because both King
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Speaker 1: jehosh Fat and also King Ahab were warned by a
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Speaker 1: prophet of God to not go out to war. The
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Speaker 1: prophet said, Ahab, if you go to war, you're gonna die.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna die. That's gonna be it for you. But Ahab,
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Speaker 1: who was not a Yahweh follower, didn't listen. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what Jehoshaphat's excuse was, because johosh Fat was obviously
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Speaker 1: a Yahweh follower, we find out in today's chapter, and
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Speaker 1: we knew that from before as well. But both the
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Speaker 1: kings just went to war with Syrians and God had
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Speaker 1: the prophecy come true obviously, and King Ahab died at
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Speaker 1: the end of that war. And what's kind of interesting
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Speaker 1: is he died randomly as well. Ahab actually told jehosh Fat.
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Speaker 1: He's like, hey, you go ahead and put on your
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Speaker 1: kingly robes, and I'm going to dress as one of
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Speaker 1: one of the average soldiers so that nobody tries to
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Speaker 1: target me and kill me. And Ahab thinks that he's
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Speaker 1: going to get around this prophecy, that he is going
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Speaker 1: to just blend in with the crowd and not get
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Speaker 1: targeted in this battle. And jehosh Fat, for some reason,
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Speaker 1: just goes along with this absolutely terrible plan. And the
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Speaker 1: Syrians see jehoshah Fat in his kingly robes in his chariot,
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Speaker 1: and they start chasing him down to try to kill
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Speaker 1: him because they think he's King Ahab of Israel. Jehoshaphat
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Speaker 1: cries out to God, and God moves the Syrians away
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Speaker 1: from him, protects jehosh Fat, even though jehosh Fat made
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Speaker 1: such a bad decision to go into this battle in
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Speaker 1: the first place. And meanwhile, Ahab, who is dressed as
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Speaker 1: a normal soldier, gets struck randomly with an arrow and
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Speaker 1: the arrow goes in between the plates of armor to
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Speaker 1: actually kill him. So the prophecy ended up coming true.
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Speaker 1: But Jehosha Fat, throughout all of this, returns to his
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Speaker 1: house in peace and man. That is a miracle from
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Speaker 1: God that jehosh Fat did not die in that battle.
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Speaker 1: That shows that God was on jehosh fat side for sure.
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Speaker 1: But God is not happy with jehosh Fat for what
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Speaker 1: he did, so he sends a prophet in verse two
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Speaker 1: named Jehu, the son of Hanani. So we've seen Hanani
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Speaker 1: the Seer before, back in Second Kings sixteen. He was
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Speaker 1: the man that went to jehosh Fat's father Asa and
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Speaker 1: told Asa that he had done something wrong. So let's
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Speaker 1: go back to Second Chronicle sixteen and read verse seven.
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Speaker 1: It says at that time Hanani the Seer came to Asa,
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Speaker 1: King of Judah, and said to him, because you've relied
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Speaker 1: on the King of Syria and have not relied on
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Speaker 1: Yahweh or God. Therefore the army of the King of
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Speaker 1: Syria has escaped out of your hand. And then Hanani
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Speaker 1: the Seer goes on to you know, prophesy more to
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Speaker 1: King Asa. But King Asa did not respond well to Hanani.
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Speaker 1: He actually threw him in prison and started persecuting some
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Speaker 1: of the other people that were in Judah as well.
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Speaker 1: So Asa did not respond well to bad prophecy against him.
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Speaker 1: But this Hanani guy had a son named Jehu, who
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Speaker 1: was also a prophet himself, and Jehu was mentioned twice
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Speaker 1: that I know of in scripture. He was mentioned right
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Speaker 1: here in Second Chronicles nineteen when he gave this prophecy
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Speaker 1: to Johashapat, and he was also mentioned in First Kings
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Speaker 1: sixteen one through seven. Let me read First Kings sixteen
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Speaker 1: seven for you moreover. Yeahs word came by the prophet Jehu,
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Speaker 1: the son of Hanani, against Basha and against his house,
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Speaker 1: both because of all the evil that he did and
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Speaker 1: y always cite to provoke him to anger with the
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Speaker 1: work of his hands in being like the house of Jerebo,
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Speaker 1: and because he struck him. So Jehu was one of
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Speaker 1: the few prophets we see who is actually a prophet
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Speaker 1: to both the kings of Israel and also the kings
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Speaker 1: of Judah. Interestingly enough, a lot of times when we
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Speaker 1: see prophets around this time period, they stick with their
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Speaker 1: own kings. But Jayhu moved around to both Israel and
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Speaker 1: Judah to give these prophecies to these kings. So he
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Speaker 1: gives a prophecy in our passage for today to Johashafat.
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Speaker 1: Because God is not happy with Jehoshafat. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: I do not know how to pronounce Jehashafat's name. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Sometimes I say Jehashafat, sometimes I say jehoshah Fat.
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Speaker 1: I was looking at the Hebrew and it's like it's
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Speaker 1: something more like Yeha Sapat or something yahas say pet.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce his name, so please
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Speaker 1: forgive me. My pronunciation of his name is going to
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Speaker 1: constantly change. I just know that about myself. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: Jayhu goes to King josh Fat and he says, should
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Speaker 1: you help the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh?
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Speaker 1: Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
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Speaker 1: In other words, God is angry at you, joosh Fat,
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Speaker 1: for what you've done. He is angry that you sided
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Speaker 1: with that wicked king Ahab up north in Israel. He
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Speaker 1: is angry with you because why are you helping the wicked?
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Speaker 1: Why are you loving those who hate Yahweh? And that's
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Speaker 1: another thing. Jehosh Fat actually went very far in his
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Speaker 1: covenant with King Ahab. He actually married his son to
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Speaker 1: King Ahab's daughter Ahab and Jezebel's daughter. And we're gonna
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Speaker 1: find out that jehosh Fat's son ended up being a
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Speaker 1: really really bad guy, really bad guy because of his
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Speaker 1: ties to Israel and that wicked family. So I'm sure
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Speaker 1: God is not just talking about this whole kerfuffle that
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Speaker 1: happened with Ahab and jehosh Fat with the Syrians. He's
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Speaker 1: probably also talking about the marriage covenant between jehosh Fat's
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Speaker 1: son and Ahab and Jezebel's daughter. Just a really bad
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Speaker 1: situation all around. Now, I should mention here the word
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Speaker 1: love where it says should you help the wicked and
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Speaker 1: love those who hate yahweh. The word love, if you
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Speaker 1: look at it in the Hebrew, doesn't necessarily mean like
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Speaker 1: a familial type of love, or like a love between
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Speaker 1: a husband and wife. This particular word for love actually
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Speaker 1: means more of a covenant that you're making with somebody,
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Speaker 1: or a bond that you have with someone. It could
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Speaker 1: also relate to a vow that you make with someone.
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Speaker 1: And interestingly enough, this same Hebrew word for love that
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Speaker 1: we see right here in Second Chronicles nineteen is also
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Speaker 1: the same word used for the love between Jonathan and David,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people nowadays like to say that
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Speaker 1: Jonathan and David had a homosexual relationship because it says
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Speaker 1: in scripture that these two men loved each other. And
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Speaker 1: not to go off on that for too long, but
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Speaker 1: if you read Second Samuel chapter one, there's an interesting
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Speaker 1: verse that David says. It says the love he had
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Speaker 1: between Jonathan actually surpassed the love of women, and so
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Speaker 1: many people like to take that and be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, that definitely means that David had like a
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Speaker 1: deep crush on Jonathan. But again, this Hebrew word for
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Speaker 1: love is used in that context. So what David was
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Speaker 1: saying is not that he had sexual feelings for Jonathan
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Speaker 1: above the feelings he had for other women. He was
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Speaker 1: saying that he had a vow with Jonathan that surpassed
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Speaker 1: the vows that he had with any women. And that
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Speaker 1: really checks out actually, because David broke his marriage vows
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Speaker 1: all the time. He didn't care about his marriage vows,
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Speaker 1: so of course he was going to think that this
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Speaker 1: like brotherly bond, this covenant that he had with Jonathan
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Speaker 1: was a better vow than the ones he made with
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Speaker 1: his own wives, because he broke those ones all the time.
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Speaker 1: But he did not break the vow between Jonathan and himself.
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Speaker 1: They had a covenant together, they made a promise with
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Speaker 1: each other. And the Hebrew word for love used in
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Speaker 1: that situation is talking more about a covenant or a
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Speaker 1: vow rather than a sexual kind of love. And that's
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Speaker 1: the same thing here for Second Chronicles nineteen, where King
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Speaker 1: jehosh Fat made this vow with King Ahab. And that's
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Speaker 1: why God says here, should you help the wicked and
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Speaker 1: love those who hate Yahweh? So, in other words, should
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Speaker 1: you make a vow with someone who hates Yahweh? Why
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Speaker 1: would you do that? Why would you do that? Is
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Speaker 1: what God is asking because of this wrath is on
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Speaker 1: you from before Yahweh. So God is angry at Jehosha
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Speaker 1: Fat for what he did. However, God also gives some
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Speaker 1: encouragement to jehosh Fat at the exact same time. He
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Speaker 1: tells them, you know what, I'm angry at you, but
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Speaker 1: there are good things found in you. You've put away
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Speaker 1: the asterith out of the land, and you have set
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Speaker 1: your heart to seek God. Jayhu made some mistakes, He
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Speaker 1: made some pretty bad mistakes actually with helping King Ahab.
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Speaker 1: But because jehoshah Fat truly did have a heart after God,
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Speaker 1: God commended jehosh Fat at the same time as kind
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Speaker 1: of yelling at him, even punishing him. Now, we don't
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Speaker 1: know exactly what punishment jehosha Fat got for this. It
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Speaker 1: could be that God never punished jehosh Fat while he
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Speaker 1: was here on earth. Maybe that punishment was reserved for
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Speaker 1: meeting God face to face. I don't know, Or maybe
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Speaker 1: scripture just didn't say the punishment that jehosh Fat got.
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Speaker 1: So we don't know exactly how God punished jehosh Fat,
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Speaker 1: but it does say that he was angry with him.
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Speaker 1: But I do think that jehosh Fat, at least for
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Speaker 1: the time being, kind of got the message. He did
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Speaker 1: not respond like his father Asa did when Asa received
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Speaker 1: a negative prophecy from Hanani the Seer. You know, Asa
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Speaker 1: flew off the handle and put Hanani in prison and
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Speaker 1: persecuted a bunch of people. But jehosh Fat, it says,
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Speaker 1: after he got this, just lived at Jerusalem, and that
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Speaker 1: kind of implies that he didn't go up to Israel again,
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Speaker 1: like maybe he learned his lesson there that he was
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Speaker 1: not going to travel to see the next king of Israel,
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Speaker 1: because don't forget that, you know, Ahab had just died,
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Speaker 1: and they had had a agreement with each other, a
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Speaker 1: covenant with each other. So it would have made sense
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Speaker 1: politically for jehosh Fat to go back up to Israel
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Speaker 1: and greet the next king, which obviously would have been
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Speaker 1: I believe it was Azaria, which was Ahab's son. It
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Speaker 1: would have made sense politically, But it kind of sounds
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Speaker 1: like jehosh Fat did not do that. He just stayed
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Speaker 1: in Judah where he was supposed to be, instead of
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Speaker 1: traveling up to Israel again. Now all that being said,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if jehosh Fat fully learned his lesson,
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Speaker 1: as we're gonna find out soon, but at least for
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Speaker 1: the time being, it seems like he kind of did.
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Speaker 1: And so in verse four he went out again among
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Speaker 1: the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephriam
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Speaker 1: and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
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Speaker 1: So after all this takes place, jehash Fat figures out
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Speaker 1: what he's going to do in Judah to get the
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Speaker 1: people back on track with Yahweh. It says he went
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Speaker 1: out again among the people of Judah, from Beersheba to
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Speaker 1: the hill country of Ephraim, and it says he brought
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Speaker 1: them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this was more religious reform that
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Speaker 1: he did. We do know that he got rid of
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Speaker 1: the Ashtrara cult, and he also removed the sex cult
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Speaker 1: and the homosexual prostitutes that were in Judah as well.
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Speaker 1: He got rid of all of that stuff, and I
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Speaker 1: think that's why God did end up commending him at
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Speaker 1: the same time as punishing him, because Jehoshavad did do
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Speaker 1: some good things spiritually for Judah, and it sounds like
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Speaker 1: he's continuing to do that. It says in verse five
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Speaker 1: that he set judges in the land throughout all the
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Speaker 1: fortified cities of Judah, city by city, and said to
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Speaker 1: the judges, consider what you do, for you don't judge
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Speaker 1: for man, but for Yahweh, and He is with you
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Speaker 1: in the judgment. Now, therefore, let the fear of Yahweh
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Speaker 1: be on you. Take heed and do it, for there
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Speaker 1: is no iniquity with Yahweh are God, nor respect of persons,
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Speaker 1: nor taking of bribes. So this is definitely some sort
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Speaker 1: of judicial reform that Jehoshaphat does for Judah. He tries
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Speaker 1: to get judges that are good, that aren't going to
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Speaker 1: take bribes. He says, that aren't going to take sides
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Speaker 1: or show favoritism in the court. Instead, they are going
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Speaker 1: to follow Yahweh and they are going to not respect persons,
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Speaker 1: in other words, show favoritism or take bribes and corrupt justice.
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Speaker 1: And this could be part of the reason why jehosh
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Speaker 1: Fat went in person to all of these different cities
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Speaker 1: to check out what the judicial system looked like and
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Speaker 1: to appoint new judges and fire old judges who are
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Speaker 1: corrupting justice. And the new judges that Jehoshaphat puts in place,
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Speaker 1: he tells them to follow God. He says, consider what
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Speaker 1: you do for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh,
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Speaker 1: and He is with you in the judgment. So he
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Speaker 1: reminds them, He's like, look, your job is not to
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Speaker 1: judge for other people for other people's approval. Your job
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Speaker 1: is to judge for God's approval. That's it. So this
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Speaker 1: is all great stuff. And then in verse eight it
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Speaker 1: says moreover, in Jerusalem, Jehoshapad appointed certain levites, priests and
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Speaker 1: heads of the father's households of Israel to give judgment
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Speaker 1: for Yahweh and or controversies. So I would guess this
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Speaker 1: is kind of like an appeals court. So some political stuff,
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Speaker 1: some religious stuff, some just you know, innocuous stuff where
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Speaker 1: people would have complaints with each other and try to
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Speaker 1: sue each other. I guess they could go to Jerusalem
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Speaker 1: and have their problem figured out. I suppose with one
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Speaker 1: of these levites that was appointed by the king. And
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Speaker 1: in verse Ninence says he commanded them, saying, you shall
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Speaker 1: do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully and with
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Speaker 1: a perfect heart. So again, the phrase perfect heart does
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Speaker 1: not mean sinless perfection. It means completely following Yahweh, not
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Speaker 1: worshiping any other gods, not being influenced by any other
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Speaker 1: cultures or gods, but only being influenced by Yahweh himself.
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Speaker 1: And what the scriptures have to say. And jehasha Fat
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Speaker 1: continues in verse ten, whenever any controversy comes to you
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Speaker 1: from your brothers who dwell in their cities between blooded blood,
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Speaker 1: between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn
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Speaker 1: them that they not be guilty toward Yahweh. And so
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Speaker 1: wrath come on you and your brothers do this and
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Speaker 1: you will not be guilty. So again, like the judges,
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Speaker 1: he commands these guys to be fully in line with Yahweh,
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Speaker 1: that they are not judging for the sake of man,
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Speaker 1: but they are judging for the sake of God. Then
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Speaker 1: he says, behold, Amara, the chief priest is over you
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Speaker 1: in all matters of Yahweh, and Zabadiah, the son of Ishmael,
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Speaker 1: the ruler of the House of Judah, in all the
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Speaker 1: king's matters. So yes, there is two types of court,
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Speaker 1: it sounds like in Jerusalem, one specifically for matters relating
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Speaker 1: to Yahweh and another one relating directly to matters of
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Speaker 1: the king. Also, the levites shall be officers before you
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Speaker 1: deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good. So overall,
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Speaker 1: you know, josh Fat was a human being, the same
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Speaker 1: as all of us. He sinned, he did something wrong,
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Speaker 1: but he did try to get Judah to follow God
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Speaker 1: once again in every single capacity, not just politically, but
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Speaker 1: also religiously as well. And he was trying to appoint
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Speaker 1: people that actually truly loved Yahweh, that wasn't worshiping any
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Speaker 1: other idol or being influenced by any other idols, but
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Speaker 1: worshiping God alone and ruling the people, judging the people
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Speaker 1: in a way that was God honoring. So josh Fat
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Speaker 1: did his best, for sure, and because of that, his
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Speaker 1: reign was overall blessed by God. And you can see
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Speaker 1: now why even though God is angry at jehosh Fat,
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Speaker 1: he also commends him for the good things that he did.
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Speaker 1: There's one last thing I'd like to say about verse
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Speaker 1: three before I end the episode. But before I do,
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Speaker 1: here is a quick word from a sponsor. All right,
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Speaker 1: the last thing I'd like to say in verse two,
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Speaker 1: where Jahu the prophet goes to Jehoshaphat and he says,
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Speaker 1: should you help the waket in love those who hate Yahweh?
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Speaker 1: That makes it pretty clear that even though a vow
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Speaker 1: was made between Jehoshaphat and Ahab, that vow firstly should
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Speaker 1: never have been made, and also secondly, it should have
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Speaker 1: been broken. There are times in scripture where it is
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Speaker 1: actually better to break a vow than follow through with it.
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Speaker 1: We've seen this on a handful of occasions so far,
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Speaker 1: the first and most famous one being when that one
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Speaker 1: judge of Israel i forget his name, vowed to sacrifice
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Speaker 1: whatever came out of his house if God helped him,
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Speaker 1: and then the first thing that came out of his
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Speaker 1: house ended up being his daughter, and so he sacrificed
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Speaker 1: his daughter to Yahweh. Obviously a very stupid vow that
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Speaker 1: should have been broken, because if you are sinning in
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Speaker 1: order to keep a vow with God, that's not good.
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Speaker 1: That's not good, and that's the same thing here in
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Speaker 1: Second Chronicles nineteen, Jehosha Fat was sinning by keeping this
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Speaker 1: vow with King Ahab because God directly warned both jehosh
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Speaker 1: Fat and also Ahab to not go to battle. It
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Speaker 1: was a sin for jehosh Fat to go to battle,
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Speaker 1: even if he promised Ahab, yes, I will do this
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Speaker 1: with you before he heard that prophecy, he should have
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Speaker 1: broken that vow because God does not want us to sin.
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Speaker 1: We don't keep vows that cause us or other people
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Speaker 1: to sin. Now, granted, it's better to not make the
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Speaker 1: vow in the first place if you can't keep it,
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Speaker 1: but in Jehoshpat's case, he definitely should have broken that
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Speaker 1: vow that he had with King Ahab because God essentially
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Speaker 1: says that why would you help the wicked and love
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Speaker 1: those who hate yahweh. So, faithful listeners, I hope you
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