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2 Chronicles 11 - The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and good morning. Thank you so much for tuning
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  Speaker 1: into the Bible Explained podcast. We are going to be
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  Speaker 1: in second Chronicles eleven today talking about the rain of
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  Speaker 1: ray A Boem and how ray Boham just repeats all
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  Speaker 1: of the bad things that Sulomon did. We'll get into
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  Speaker 1: it in just a second. So can you believe that
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  Speaker 1: Advent started yesterday? I am just shocked that we're already
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  Speaker 1: in the Christmas season. My church was all decorated for
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  Speaker 1: Christmas yesterday, and I was like, how I felt like
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  Speaker 1: it was just summer or like two weeks ago. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like summer just flew. And I'm kind of bummed,
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  Speaker 1: honestly that Christmas is already here. I'm not in the
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  Speaker 1: Christmas spirit yet this year, but anyway, it is Advent,
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  Speaker 1: and for those of you who are in the Christmas spirit,
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  Speaker 1: you should definitely check out my Advent devotional four teenage Girls,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you know a teenage girl. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: guess you can read it yourself if you're not a
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  Speaker 1: teenage girl, but I would suggest giving it to any
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  Speaker 1: teenage girl that you know, because you know, people don't
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  Speaker 1: really understand what Advent is. It is not taught in school,
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  Speaker 1: nobody gets it, and so I talk about what Advent
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  Speaker 1: is and how it relates to Christmas, not to mention
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  Speaker 1: Advent really just is talking about Jesus's second coming. So
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  Speaker 1: all of that is discussed in the Advent devotional four
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  Speaker 1: teenage Girls. You will find that linked in the description
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  Speaker 1: of this episode, but let's go ahead and read it.
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  Speaker 1: Second Chronicles eleven the entire thing and discuss the reign
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  Speaker 1: of Raya Boam. And we're also going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: all of these wives that he ends up marrying and
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  Speaker 1: some laws that he breaks, and how Israel and Judah
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  Speaker 1: just kind of fracture. So a lot to talk about today.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be reading as usual from the web. Grab your
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee or your cup of tea, and let's
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  Speaker 1: jump right in. When Raya Boham had come to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: he assembled the House of Judah and Benjamin one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty thousand chosen men who are warriors to fight
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  Speaker 1: against Israel to bring the kingdom again to Raya Boam.
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  Speaker 1: But Yea always wear came to Shemeah, the Man of God, saying,
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  Speaker 1: speak to Raeboam, the son of Solomon, King of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying Yahweis
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  Speaker 1: says you shall not go up nor fight against your brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Every man returned to his house, for this thing is
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  Speaker 1: of me. So they listened to Yawi's words and returned
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  Speaker 1: from going against Jereboam. Rayeboam lived in Jerusalem and built
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  Speaker 1: cities for defense. In Judah he built Bethlehem, Edom Toakoa, Bethezur, Soko, Adulam, Gath, Merisha,
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  Speaker 1: zif Adorim, lakeish Azeka, Zorah, Ajalon, and Hebron, which were
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  Speaker 1: fortified cities. In Judah and in Benjamin, he fortified the
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  Speaker 1: strongholds and put captains in them, with stores of food, oil,
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  Speaker 1: and wine. He put shields and spears in every city
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  Speaker 1: and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
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  Speaker 1: The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel
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  Speaker 1: stood with him out of all of their territory. For
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  Speaker 1: the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions and
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  Speaker 1: came to Judah and j Jerusalem. For Jeroboam and his
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  Speaker 1: sons cast them off that they should not execute the
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  Speaker 1: priest's office. To Yahweh, He himself appointed priests for the
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  Speaker 1: high places for the male goat and calf idols, which
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  Speaker 1: he had made after them. Out of all the tribes
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Hyahweh,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice Iahweh,
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  Speaker 1: the God of their fathers. So they strengthened the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Judah and made Rayeboam, the son of Solomon strong
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  Speaker 1: for three years, for they walked three years in the
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  Speaker 1: way of David and Solomon. Rayaboam took a wife for himself, Mahalith,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of Jeremith, the son of David, and of
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  Speaker 1: abih Hail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse.
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  Speaker 1: She bore him sons Jayush, Shimaria, and Zehem. After her,
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  Speaker 1: he took Maka, the granddaughter of Absalom, and she bore
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  Speaker 1: him Abaijah, a tai Ziza, and Schelmuth. Rayeboam loved Maka,
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  Speaker 1: the granddaughter of Absalom, above all his wives and his concubines,
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  Speaker 1: for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became
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  Speaker 1: the father of twenty eight sons and sixty daughters. Rayoboam
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  Speaker 1: appointed Abaijah, the son of Maka to be chief the
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  Speaker 1: prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.
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  Speaker 1: He dealt wisely and dispersed some of his sons throughout
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  Speaker 1: all the lands of Judah and Benjamin to every fortified city.
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  Speaker 1: He gave them food in abundance, and he sought many
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  Speaker 1: wives for them. So the moral of this chapter is
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  Speaker 1: that old habits die hard, and that the fruit does
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  Speaker 1: not fall far from the tree, and that history always
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  Speaker 1: repeats itself. So in the previous chapter we talked about
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  Speaker 1: how Raye Boham became the king right after Solomon, his
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  Speaker 1: father died, and Raoboam, three days after becoming the king,
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  Speaker 1: starts a civil war which completely fractures Israel. And so
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  Speaker 1: the northern tribes of Israel go with this other guy
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  Speaker 1: named Jeroboam, and then Rayeboam, Solomon's son, gains control of
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  Speaker 1: two tribes down south, which would have been Judah and
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  Speaker 1: and Benjamin. So now Rea Boam goes back home after
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  Speaker 1: that entire mess that he started, and he decides that
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  Speaker 1: he's going to fight against the northern kingdom and against
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  Speaker 1: Jeobom and take all of that land back. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: it says in verse one when Raaboam had come to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: He assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty thousand chosen men who are warriors to fight
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  Speaker 1: against Israel to bring the kingdom again to Raya Boam,
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  Speaker 1: so he's ready to go to war with the northern tribes.
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  Speaker 1: But the word of Yahweh came to a man named
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  Speaker 1: Shameya saying, speak to Raa Boam, the son of Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin saying, Yahweh says you shall not go up nor
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  Speaker 1: fight against your brothers. Every man returned to his house,
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  Speaker 1: for this thing is of me. So essentially God's word
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  Speaker 1: came to this prophet named Shameya. And I believe this
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  Speaker 1: is the only time Shameyah is mentioned is right here
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  Speaker 1: and also in First King's chapter twelve, which is just
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  Speaker 1: a pair of story. But Shameha, who is this unknown prophet,
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  Speaker 1: goes to the king and he says, you cannot go
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  Speaker 1: to battle with your brothers because God actually said this
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  Speaker 1: thing is of him and he does not want you
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  Speaker 1: to go out. And actually, for the first time ever,
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  Speaker 1: Israel listened to Yahwei's voice and did not go out
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  Speaker 1: to fight against northern Israel. But notice that God still
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  Speaker 1: considered fractured Israel brothers with each other. God always considered
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  Speaker 1: Israel and Judah, though they had become two separate nations,
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  Speaker 1: one nation of people, his people. But anyway, Raye Boam
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  Speaker 1: and all of the people actually do listen to Yawa's voice,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't go out to battle with northern Israel. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: Rae Boham, it says, goes back home. In verse five.
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  Speaker 1: He lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense
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  Speaker 1: in Judah. So instead of attacking northern Israel, he decides
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  Speaker 1: he's going to make what he has strong so that
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  Speaker 1: Jereboam up north, who is now the king of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: can't come down and try to take more land for himself.
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  Speaker 1: So Jeroboam goes and fortifies all these cities. He fortified Bethlehem, Edam, Tocoa, Bethzor,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. And I'm not going to go
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  Speaker 1: back through those names because I don't think I'm pronouncing
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  Speaker 1: them correctly as usual. So he fortified all of these
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  Speaker 1: cities in Judah and Benjamin and maintained a decent control
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  Speaker 1: of those two tribes for his entire life. Instead, it
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  Speaker 1: says that he made them very strong. In verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: he put shields and spears in every city and made
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  Speaker 1: them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. So
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  Speaker 1: God is making it very clear at this point that
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  Speaker 1: the line of David is only going to have two
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  Speaker 1: tribes left to them instead of the full twelve tribes
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, because the line of David sinned almost directly
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  Speaker 1: after Day died. You know, Solomon, though he was a
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  Speaker 1: really good king in his own ways, never quite had
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  Speaker 1: a heart for Yahweh and started putting up all of
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  Speaker 1: these altars in the city for these foreign deities. That
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  Speaker 1: was always what Israel was doing wrong, was worshiping other
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  Speaker 1: gods and not having faith fully in Yahweh. They would
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  Speaker 1: go and worship Yahweh, but then they'd go the next
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  Speaker 1: day and worship all of these other foreign idols that
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  Speaker 1: God told them not to worship. Because they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: cover all of their bases. They're saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think God is powerful enough to help me
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  Speaker 1: through this problem. So I'm going to go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pray to this God over here who might be able
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  Speaker 1: to bless me with this thing that I really want,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm going to worship Yahweh and this thing
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  Speaker 1: so that I can cover all of my bases. But
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  Speaker 1: God was so clear from the beginning when his people
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  Speaker 1: were in the wilderness, you shall have no other god
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  Speaker 1: except for Me. That is what he told his people.
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  Speaker 1: Have faith in me fully. That is what it means
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  Speaker 1: to be a Yahweh follower, is to put your faith
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  Speaker 1: fully in Him, not in him and all these other things,
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  Speaker 1: but just in Him. So Israel, of course, was always
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  Speaker 1: falling away, and Solomon did that exact thing. He had
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  Speaker 1: many other gods other than Yahweh. But yet it says
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  Speaker 1: Solomon was very religious. Every single morning he'd go and
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  Speaker 1: he would perform a sacrifice, and in the evening he'd
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  Speaker 1: perform the sacrifice, and he'd perform a special one on
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  Speaker 1: different celebrations and feasts and the Sabbath day. So even
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  Speaker 1: though Solomon was very religious, he still went and worshiped
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  Speaker 1: all of these other gods to appease the hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: wives that he had, and also because his heart was
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  Speaker 1: not fully faithful in Yahweh. And Solomon unfortunately learned way
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  Speaker 1: too late in life and didn't teach Raya Boam to
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  Speaker 1: be a true Yahweh follower, because it doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: in this chapter, from the little bit that we know
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  Speaker 1: of Rea Bouam, that he did what should be done,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it came to worship of Yahweh. Instead, it
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  Speaker 1: almost seems like Raya Boam followed all of the bad
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  Speaker 1: things that Solomon did and not any of the good
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  Speaker 1: things that Solomon did. So let's read about this. It
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  Speaker 1: says he put shields in every city and made them
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  Speaker 1: exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him Verse thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: The priests and the Levites who were in all of
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  Speaker 1: Israel stood with him out of all their territory. For
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  Speaker 1: the Leevites left their pasture lands and their possessions and
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  Speaker 1: came to Judah and Jerusalem. For Jeroboam and his sons
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  Speaker 1: cast them off that they should not execute the priest's
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  Speaker 1: office to Yahweh. So that's actually talked about a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more in First Kings chapter twelve, where Jeroboam, when
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  Speaker 1: he gained control of the northern parts of Israel, actually
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  Speaker 1: set up a state real lace religion because he was
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  Speaker 1: scared of the Israelites traveling down south to Judah to
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  Speaker 1: the temple to worship Yahweh. Let's read about this in
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  Speaker 1: One Kings twelve twenty five through thirty three. It says,
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  Speaker 1: then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephriem
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  Speaker 1: and lived in it. And he went out of there
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  Speaker 1: and built Penuel. Jeroboam said in his heart, now the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom will return to David's house. If this people goes
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  Speaker 1: up to offer sacrifices in Yahwei's house at Jerusalem, then
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  Speaker 1: the heart of his people will turn again to their lord,
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  Speaker 1: even Rayeboam, the king of Judah, and they will kill
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  Speaker 1: me and return to Raeboam, king of Judah. So the
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  Speaker 1: king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and
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  Speaker 1: he said to them, it is too much for you
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  Speaker 1: to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your God's Israel,
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  Speaker 1: which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: He set one in Bethel, and the other he put
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  Speaker 1: in Dan. This thing became a sin, for the people
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  Speaker 1: went even as far as Dan to worship before the one. There.
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  Speaker 1: He made houses of high places and made priests from
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  Speaker 1: among all the people who were not the sons of Levi.
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  Speaker 1: Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is
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  Speaker 1: in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He
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  Speaker 1: did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he
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  Speaker 1: had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of
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  Speaker 1: the high places that he had made. He went up
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  Speaker 1: to the altar which he had made in Bethel on
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  Speaker 1: the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even the month
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  Speaker 1: which he had devised of his own heart, and he
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  Speaker 1: ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went
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  Speaker 1: up to the altar to burn incense. So, yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the state religion that Jeroboam up north put
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  Speaker 1: in place because he was terrified. He did not want
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  Speaker 1: the people to go to Jerusalem down in Judah to
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice Jiahweh there, because he feared and believed that that
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  Speaker 1: was going to give the power back to Judah and
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  Speaker 1: Raya Boam if all the people were constantly traveling to
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh. So he comes up with
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  Speaker 1: this clever plan. He's like, you know what I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to just put little places of worship that
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  Speaker 1: the people can go to very easily. And so he
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  Speaker 1: made these golden calves, and he said, Israel, these golden
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  Speaker 1: calves are now places of worship. You can go to
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  Speaker 1: these places now to worship Yahweh if you want. This
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  Speaker 1: is God who brought you out of Egypt, to worship
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  Speaker 1: him right here in Bethel and in Dan. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to go down to Jerusalem any longer to sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: to Yahweh. And so it ended up happening is he
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  Speaker 1: places these two calves in Dan and Bethel, and the
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  Speaker 1: people started worshiping these calves. Shockingly enough, it was not
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh worship. It was calf Idol worship. Because it says
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  Speaker 1: that the people who are very devout in this religion,
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  Speaker 1: they were actually going to both calves, like the one
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  Speaker 1: way over in Dan, which was I think at the
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  Speaker 1: northernmost tippy top of Israel, if I'm remembering correctly, they
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  Speaker 1: travel all the way up there to sacrifice to that
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  Speaker 1: idol and to the one down in Bethel. So they
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  Speaker 1: became two separate entities that the Israelites were worshiping. And
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  Speaker 1: Jeroboam did that out of fear. And second Chronicles eleven
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  Speaker 1: going back to our chapter four today talks about the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. The Levites left their pasture lands and their
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  Speaker 1: possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem for Jeroboam and
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  Speaker 1: his sons cast them off that they should not execute
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  Speaker 1: the priest's office to Yahweh. He himself appointed priest for
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  Speaker 1: the high places for the male goat and calf idols
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  Speaker 1: which he had made, so that right there. Bever says
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't just calf idols that Jeroboam had made.
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  Speaker 1: He also made a male goat idol and high places
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  Speaker 1: as well, So probably these high places were for foreign
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  Speaker 1: gods like Bail and Moloch and Chemish and Astrara. He
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  Speaker 1: actually put a lot of idol where she in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: not just these two state sanctioned religions, but all these
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  Speaker 1: other ones also. That is what Jeroboam did. And depending
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  Speaker 1: on the version that you read, I believe the n
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  Speaker 1: KJV says that Jeroboam put these idols up for demons.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of sad that the web does not mention
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  Speaker 1: the word demons here, but that is essentially what idle
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  Speaker 1: worship is is sacrificing to demons. And because of this,
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  Speaker 1: the devout people of Israel that wanted to worship Yahweh
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  Speaker 1: the right way, they left and went down south to Judah.
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  Speaker 1: So actually, Jeroboam caused a huge problem in northern Israel.
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  Speaker 1: He was trying to avoid a problem, but he ended
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  Speaker 1: up causing one because all the devout people left as
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  Speaker 1: well as the Levites, and they went down south and
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  Speaker 1: strengthened verse seventeen the kingdom of Judah and made Rayeboam
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  Speaker 1: the son of Solomon strong for three years, for they
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  Speaker 1: walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.
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  Speaker 1: So after all of this happens, Judah becomes very strong
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  Speaker 1: only for three years. But that is a big hit
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  Speaker 1: on northern Israel because now very few devout people are left.
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  Speaker 1: That causes a lot of problems. We're going to see
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  Speaker 1: that actually as we move forward in Israel's history. But
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  Speaker 1: it says in verse seventeen that the Levites and the
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  Speaker 1: devout people strengthened the Kingdom of Judah and made ray
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  Speaker 1: Bohm the son of Solomon strong for three years and
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  Speaker 1: only three years, for they walked three years in the
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  Speaker 1: way of David and Solomon. So yeah, it only took
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  Speaker 1: Judah three years to fall away from Yahweh because that
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  Speaker 1: is just human nature, right. We are always always falling
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  Speaker 1: away from Yahweh. And here's kind of the start of it,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, Raa Boham, he's the king, and the
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  Speaker 1: king determines a lot of what Judah is going to do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the king is kind of the example that
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  Speaker 1: everybody is looking to. So this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons Judah fell away from Yahweh so quickly is because
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  Speaker 1: of Raa Boham. Here's what Raya Boham does in verse eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: He took a wife for himself, Mahaleth, the daughter of Jeremith,
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  Speaker 1: the son of David, and of abi Hail, the daughter
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  Speaker 1: of Eliab, the son of Jesse, So she was related
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  Speaker 1: to David. She was actually one of David's granddaughters, as
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  Speaker 1: Raya Boham was actually I so Rea Boham and this
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  Speaker 1: woman Mahaleth would have been cousins, but very distant cousins
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  Speaker 1: because she was from the line of one of David's
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  Speaker 1: other wives, so they weren't Reya Boham and her were
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  Speaker 1: not like closely related, but they were I guess cousins.
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  Speaker 1: And it says that she bore him sons jay USh, Shamaria,
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  Speaker 1: and Zahem. Now it kind of sounds to me this
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  Speaker 1: girl Mahalith was Ree Boham's first wife, and that these
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  Speaker 1: three sons that she had would have been the firstborn son,
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  Speaker 1: specifically Jayush. But after her in verse twenty, he took
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  Speaker 1: this woman named Maka, the granddaughter of Absalom, and she
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  Speaker 1: bore him a Baija, a tie Ziza, and Sheelamuth. So
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  Speaker 1: this girl Maka was also a distant cousin of Rae Boham.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they would have been cousins. She was the
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  Speaker 1: granddaughter of Apsalom. If you remember Absalom, he was the
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  Speaker 1: nasty guy that tried to take the thrown away from
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  Speaker 1: King David. He was one of David's sons and tried
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  Speaker 1: to kill King David. Actually, so Maka was related to Absalom,
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  Speaker 1: and it says that Rae Boham loved Maka better than
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  Speaker 1: all of his other wives and concubines, for he took
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  Speaker 1: eighteen wives and sixty concubines and became the father of
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight sons and sixty daughters. Every time we see
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  Speaker 1: a man in the Old Testament having multiple wives or concubines.
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  Speaker 1: Something really bad ends up happening every single time, pretty
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  Speaker 1: much without fail. There's like drama in that man's life.
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  Speaker 1: The women are neglected, there's abuse taking place, or the
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  Speaker 1: person has their heart completely turned away from God, or
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  Speaker 1: one of their sons from a different wife tries to
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  Speaker 1: kill the father. We see problems happening all the time
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  Speaker 1: in these kinds of polygamous relationships, every single time. And
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  Speaker 1: right here Raya Boam again is causing problems because it
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  Speaker 1: says right here that Raya Boam, who loved Maka more
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  Speaker 1: than any of his other wives so had clear favoritism,
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  Speaker 1: appointed A Baijah, the son of Maka, to be chief
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  Speaker 1: the prince among his brothers, for he intended to make
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  Speaker 1: him king. Abijah was not the firstborn son. It says
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  Speaker 1: that Jayush, the son of Mahalith, was the firstborn son,
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  Speaker 1: so Abaijah should not have been appointed by Raya Boham
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  Speaker 1: to be the next in line for the throne. That
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  Speaker 1: was unfair to his actual firstborn son, and there is
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  Speaker 1: a law about this in Deuteronomy twenty one. It says
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  Speaker 1: in Deuteronomy twenty one, fifteen through seventeen, if a man
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  Speaker 1: has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated,
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  Speaker 1: and they have borne him children, both the beloved and
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  Speaker 1: the hated. And if the firstborn son is hers who
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  Speaker 1: was hated, then it shall be in the day that
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  Speaker 1: he causes his sons to inherit that which he has,
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  Speaker 1: that he may not give the son of the beloved
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  Speaker 1: the rights of the first born before the son of
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  Speaker 1: the hated, who is the firstborn. But he shall acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him
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  Speaker 1: a double portion of all that he has, for he
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  Speaker 1: is the beginning of his strength. The right of the
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  Speaker 1: firstborn is his so Jereboem is breaking several Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: laws with what he is doing. First and foremost, he
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  Speaker 1: has multiple wives. Multiple is more than one. There is
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  Speaker 1: a law in Deuteronomy seventeen four Kings that specifically says
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  Speaker 1: a king shall not have multiple wives. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: he shall not have more than one wife. That's the
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  Speaker 1: first thing Raya Boham is doing wrong. The second thing
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  Speaker 1: he's doing wrong is he is showing favoritism to his wives,
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  Speaker 1: specifically in the case of giving the firstborn rights to
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  Speaker 1: a son that is not the firstborn, just because he
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  Speaker 1: likes that wife who had that child more than the
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  Speaker 1: wife of the firstborn child. It is unfair and it
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  Speaker 1: is unjust. It's like Raya Boham is repeating everything that
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  Speaker 1: Solomon did, but only the bad things that Solomon did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Solomon, in his own way was a good
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  Speaker 1: king for Israel, but he struggled, he had his heart
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  Speaker 1: go astray because of the amount of women that he married.
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  Speaker 1: And Rea Boham is doing the exact same thing, and
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  Speaker 1: he might be like, well, it says here that Reya
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  Speaker 1: Bohm only married eighteen wives, not seven hundred. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Solomon did marry seven hundred women. It's very possible.
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  Speaker 1: The reason Rea Boham didn't marry seven hundred people is
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  Speaker 1: because he physically couldn't, like he could not support them.
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  Speaker 1: Because now that Israel's been fractured, you know, Judah is
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  Speaker 1: not nearly as rich, so Rea Bohm wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 1: as rich, wouldn't have been able to afford to keep
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  Speaker 1: that many women and children in his household, because it
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  Speaker 1: does say he ended up having let's see, twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: sons and sixty daughters between all of these women, So
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of people in your household to feed
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  Speaker 1: and support. So Rea Boham probably couldn't support more than that.
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  Speaker 1: That's not to say he didn't want to. Because the
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  Speaker 1: more wives you had in this society, the more prestigious
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  Speaker 1: you were, Like wives were a status symbol. It was
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  Speaker 1: like something you owned, like a I don't know, Gucci bag,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. But either way, Raya Bohm is not doing
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  Speaker 1: what he should be doing. And this is the start
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  Speaker 1: of it right here, because if you're breaking one of
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  Speaker 1: God's laws, you're breaking them all. That is what Paul said.
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  Speaker 1: And if you move to the very next chapter, here's
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  Speaker 1: what the first line says. When the kingdom of ree
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  Speaker 1: Bohm was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh's
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  Speaker 1: law and all Israel with him. You guys know how
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  Speaker 1: much I had despise, like actually despise polygamy. It isn't
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  Speaker 1: one of my topics that just boils my blood when
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  Speaker 1: we start to talk about it. Apparently something like twenty
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  Speaker 1: percent of millennials and Zoomers think that polygamist relationships are
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  Speaker 1: just totally fine, like morally okay. To have to me,
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  Speaker 1: that is abusive towards women, and it is so against scripture,
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  Speaker 1: and you might be like, well, Jenna doesn't specifically say
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  Speaker 1: anywhere in the Bible that a polygamous relationship is wrong. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's true, but there is plenty of verses you can
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  Speaker 1: find that discourage polygamy greatly. You could say the same
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  Speaker 1: exact thing about slavery. Scripture does not specifically say slavery
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  Speaker 1: is wrong and you should not do it. But we know,
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  Speaker 1: we know that slavery is wrong, and Christians knew that
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  Speaker 1: slavery was wrong, which is why Christians were actually the
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  Speaker 1: people who abolished slavery. So just because something is not
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  Speaker 1: directly laid out in scripture this is wrong does not
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  Speaker 1: mean that we can't deduce that something is in fact wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, this was Second Chronicles eleven, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: you guys enjoy talking about this with me. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in Second Chronicles twelve and talking about the fall
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  Speaker 1: of Ray Boam on Wednesday, so I hope to see
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  Speaker 1: you guys then. Now, once again, don't forget that I
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  Speaker 1: will be taking a short break from Thursday to next Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: so please keep that in mind, but there will be
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  Speaker 1: an episode tomorrow. I will see all of you guys
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  Speaker 1: six am, or whenever you choose to wake up for
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  Speaker 1: an episode from one Timothy. Until then, happy listening and
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  Speaker 1: God bless