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2 Chronicles 12 - Judah's Fall and Egypt's Invasion · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Hello, faithful listeners. Thank you so much for tuning in
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  Speaker 1: to the Bible Explained podcast. And Hi, my name is Jen.
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  Speaker 1: I am the host of this podcast, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be reading Second Chronicles chapter twelve today, the entire
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  Speaker 1: thing talking about the life and death of King ray
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  Speaker 1: A Boham and how he certainly did not do what
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  Speaker 1: God wanted him to do. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 1: just a moment. So the past couple weeks for me
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  Speaker 1: would say nine to ten inches of snow right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it just keeps coming down. But it looks beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: really easy to get off your car. So it's nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like super icy, so I'm thankful for that.
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  Speaker 1: Ice is the worst. We had a really icy year
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  Speaker 1: last year and actually my husband fell and like messed
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  Speaker 1: icy this year. Yet, very thankful for that. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: all right, favor listeners, don't forget. I am going to
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  Speaker 1: be taking a short break from tomorrow all the way
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  Speaker 1: to next Wednesday, and then next Thursday there will be
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  Speaker 1: an episode on the podcast once again, and I'm very
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  Speaker 1: much looking forward to this week long break that I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking because this is one of the first times in
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  Speaker 1: about eight years that my husband is also taking time
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  Speaker 1: off at the same time. So that is why I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be taking this break is just to see
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  Speaker 1: my husband again. You know, It's been eight years since
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  Speaker 1: we spent like an extended period of time together. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely looking forward to it, and once again, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the time off that you all are giving
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  Speaker 1: to me. Let's go ahead and read Second Chronicles twelve
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  Speaker 1: one through sixteen, which is the entire chapter, and we
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  Speaker 1: will finish discussing the life of Raeboam and also the
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  Speaker 1: death of Raeboam and some of the problems that Israel
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  Speaker 1: is now beginning to experience under the reign of Raeboam.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be reading this as usual from the w EB
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  Speaker 1: when the kingdom of Reeboam was established, and he was strong.
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  Speaker 1: He abandoned Yahwa's law and all Israel with him. In
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  Speaker 1: the fifth year of King Rayeboam, Shei Shak, king of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: came up against Jerusalem because they had trespassed against Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The people
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  Speaker 1: were without number who came with him out of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: the Lubim, the Sukim, and the Ethiopians. He took the
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  Speaker 1: fortified cities which belonged to Judah and came to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Now Shamehah the prophet came to Reeboam and to the
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  Speaker 1: princes of Judah who were gathered together to Jerusalem because
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  Speaker 1: of she Shak, and he said to them, Yahweh says,
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  Speaker 1: you have forsaken me. Therefore I have also left you
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  Speaker 1: in the hand of she Shak. Then the princes of
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  Speaker 1: Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, Yahweh
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  Speaker 1: is righteous. When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, they
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  Speaker 1: Alwai's word came to Shemea, saying, they have humbled themselves.
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  Speaker 1: I will not destroy them, but I will grant them
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  Speaker 1: some deliverance, and my wrath won't be poured out on
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem by the hand of she Shak. Nevertheless, they will
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  Speaker 1: be his servants, that they may know my service and
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  Speaker 1: the service of the kingdoms of the countries. So she Shak,
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  Speaker 1: king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away
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  Speaker 1: the treasures of Yahway's house and the treasures of the
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  Speaker 1: king's house. He took it all away. He also took
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  Speaker 1: away the shields of gold which Solomon had made. King
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  Speaker 1: Rayaboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed
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  Speaker 1: them to the hands of the captains of the guard,
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  Speaker 1: who kept the door of the king's house. As often
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  Speaker 1: as the king entered into Yawai's house, the guard came
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  Speaker 1: and bore them, then brought them back into the guard room.
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  Speaker 1: When he humbled himself, y Alwais wrath turned from him,
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  Speaker 1: so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were
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  Speaker 1: good things found in Judah, so King Raaboam strengthened himself
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem and reigned for Reaboam was forty one years
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  Speaker 1: old when he began to reign, and he reigned a
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  Speaker 1: seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen
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  Speaker 1: out of all of the tribes of Israel to put
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  Speaker 1: his name there. His mother's name was Nama the Ammonitis.
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  Speaker 1: He did that which was evil because he didn't set
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  Speaker 1: his heart to seek Yahweh. Now the acts of rae
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  Speaker 1: Boam first and last, aren't they written in the histories
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  Speaker 1: of Shemeah the Prophet and of Ido the Seer in
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  Speaker 1: the genealogies. There were wars between Reeboam and Jereboam. Continually,
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  Speaker 1: Reaboam slept with his fathers and was buried in David's city,
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  Speaker 1: and Abaijah, his son, reigned in his place. So, as
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  Speaker 1: we found out in the last chapter, King Reeboam's reign
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  Speaker 1: was pretty rocky. He started out quite bad. Actually, within
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  Speaker 1: the first three days of becoming the king, he started
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  Speaker 1: a civil war, which was not a good look on him.
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  Speaker 1: He basically fractured Israel days after becoming the king. So
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  Speaker 1: now Israel is split into two separate nations. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: northern nation of Israel was just called Israel, and then
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  Speaker 1: the southern nation of Israel was called Judah, and that
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  Speaker 1: was where Rayeboam gained a lot of power. So he
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  Speaker 1: was down in Judah and then up north, this guy
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  Speaker 1: named Jeroboam was in charge up there, and after all
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  Speaker 1: that happened, Raeboam decided he was going to try to
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  Speaker 1: go to war with the Jeroboam, but that didn't work
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  Speaker 1: out because God specifically told rae Boam, you will not
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  Speaker 1: go to war with your brothers, So Raaboam didn't end
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  Speaker 1: up going to war and instead decided to fortify all
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  Speaker 1: of the cities in Israel. And meanwhile, Jereboam up north
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  Speaker 1: is causing trouble of his own. He's instituting a state
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  Speaker 1: run religion where the people wouldn't have to travel down
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  Speaker 1: to Judah to Jerusalem to worship Yahweh there, they could
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  Speaker 1: just stay in northern Israel and worship Yahweh at these
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  Speaker 1: calf idols that Jeroboam had made. So Jeroboam introduced a
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  Speaker 1: lot of idolatry in northern Israel that caused the devout
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  Speaker 1: people of Israel to actually leave, especially the Levites, because
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  Speaker 1: the Levites were supposed to be the priests of Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: and since Jeroboam made his own religion, he had no
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  Speaker 1: need for the levitical priests, so the Levites actually left
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  Speaker 1: to go down to Judah and become priests there, so
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  Speaker 1: very few devout people were actually left in northern Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And since the Levites went down to Judah, they actually
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  Speaker 1: strengthened Raeboam's kingdom so much so that Raaboam was strong.
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  Speaker 1: It says for three years straight, nobody wanted to mess
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  Speaker 1: with raye Boam. But after that happened, rae Boam's heart
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  Speaker 1: started to turn away from Yahweh. And we saw evidence
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  Speaker 1: of this in the last chapter when Reeboam was beginning
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  Speaker 1: to marry all of these women similarly to how Solomon
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  Speaker 1: had done. And we know that one of the main
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  Speaker 1: reasons Solomon's heart was so far away from God was
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  Speaker 1: because of the amount of women that he had married,
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  Speaker 1: and Raaboam is now doing the exact same thing. So
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  Speaker 1: it's no shocker when we read our passage for today,
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  Speaker 1: and the first verse is when the kingdom of Reeboam
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  Speaker 1: was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh's law
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  Speaker 1: and all Israel with him. That is obviously what was
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  Speaker 1: going to happen when rae Boam is following all of
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  Speaker 1: the bad things that his father did. So Raeboam's strength
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  Speaker 1: did not continue because he abandoned God's law, and we
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  Speaker 1: actually find out what Israel did in First Kings fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Second Chronicles doesn't go specifically into it, but First Kings
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  Speaker 1: fourteen does. So let's read First Kings fourteen twenty one
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  Speaker 1: through twenty four. Rayeboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah.
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  Speaker 1: Raeboam was forty one years old when he began to reign,
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  Speaker 1: and he reigned his seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city
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  Speaker 1: which Yahweh had chosen out of all of the tribes
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  Speaker 1: of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name
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  Speaker 1: was Nama. The Ammonitis. Judah did that which was evil
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  Speaker 1: in Yaway's sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with
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  Speaker 1: their sins, which they had committed above all that their
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  Speaker 1: fathers had done. For They also built for themselves high places,
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  Speaker 1: sacred pillars and ashra poles on every high hill and
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  Speaker 1: under every green tree. There were also sodomites in the land.
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  Speaker 1: They did according to all the abominations of the nations,
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  Speaker 1: which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel. So
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty clear there that Israel fell very hard, very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: At first, they were worshiping Yahweh. But then once everything
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  Speaker 1: got comfy and people started getting complacent, they allowed these
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  Speaker 1: other idols to come in, specifically the ashero pull, the
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  Speaker 1: sacred pillars and high places. They built all of these
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  Speaker 1: things just in a short time frame after Raeboam became king,
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  Speaker 1: because this would have happened within five years of the
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  Speaker 1: start of Raeboham's reign. And notice here there were also
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  Speaker 1: sodomites in the land, is what first Kings fourteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: four says, and the entire nation of Israel did according
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  Speaker 1: to all the abominations of the nations, which Yahweh drove
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  Speaker 1: out before the children of Israel. So in other words,
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  Speaker 1: the people were once again in these sex cults that
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  Speaker 1: were very popular in these days. That's what the sodomites
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  Speaker 1: would have been. Most likely were male prostitutes who would
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  Speaker 1: sell themselves for sex with other men for like a
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  Speaker 1: religious kind of ritual. So homosexuality became rampant in Israel
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  Speaker 1: during this time also, and this was all under the
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  Speaker 1: watch of Raya Boam. So what ends up happening. Turning
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  Speaker 1: back to second Chronicles twelve, in the fifth year of
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  Speaker 1: King Raabom, she Shack the king of Egypt came up
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  Speaker 1: against Jerusalem because they had trespassed against Yahweh with twelve
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  Speaker 1: hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. Now historically we know
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  Speaker 1: that this event actually happened. She Shak was a really
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  Speaker 1: pivotal figure actually for Egypt at this time. He made
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  Speaker 1: Egypt great again. Before she Shack, Egypt was not nearly
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  Speaker 1: as strong as it once had been. And she Shack,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, was a Libyan man who went to Egypt
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  Speaker 1: and started kind of promoting himself by becoming friends with
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  Speaker 1: all of the priests in Egypt. Not to mention, she
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  Speaker 1: Shak married very well and gained standing with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the leaders of Egypt, so much so that he
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  Speaker 1: ended up becoming the next pharaoh of Egypt. And once
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  Speaker 1: he became the pharaoh and started making Egypt really strong again,
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  Speaker 1: he started looking outward, like what land can we take?
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  Speaker 1: So when he sees Israel in the middle of a
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  Speaker 1: civil war, he's like, boom, that's where we're going to go.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to go to Israel and just completely
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  Speaker 1: destroy them. And that's actually what Shi Shak did. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't just take stuff from Judah. He actually went into
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  Speaker 1: northern Israel as well, because Northern Israel, of course was sinning.
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  Speaker 1: Also in general, Israel had abandoned Yahweh fully, so she
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  Speaker 1: Shak went into Israel and did a lot of damage there. However,
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  Speaker 1: God did not allow Shei Shak to destroy Israel completely,
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  Speaker 1: and that's laid out right here in verse four. It
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  Speaker 1: says he took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah,
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  Speaker 1: and he came to Jerusalem. Now, Shameah the Prophet came
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  Speaker 1: to Rea Boam and to the princes of Judah who
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  Speaker 1: were gathered together to Jerusalem because of she Shak, and
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  Speaker 1: said to them, Yahweh says, you have forsaken me. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: I have left you in the hand of she Shak. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, because Israel had forsaken God's law and
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  Speaker 1: started doing everything that the nations before them had done,
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  Speaker 1: the things that God found absolutely sickening. God says, well,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to worship me, then I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to be with you anymore because you're worshiping other gods.
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  Speaker 1: Let your other gods save you from these problems that
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  Speaker 1: you are having. And that word came to Shamea the prophet,
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  Speaker 1: and once again this guy, Shamiyah. This is like the
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  Speaker 1: only time he's ever really mentioned at all in scripture
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  Speaker 1: is right here and in the previous chapter, and not
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  Speaker 1: to mention also in First Kings he's mentioned briefly. So
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  Speaker 1: he was a prophet that we don't really know a
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  Speaker 1: lot about, not mentioned very often in scripture, but yet
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  Speaker 1: he apparently played a pretty pivotal role with Raye Boam,
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  Speaker 1: telling Raye Boam what God was saying. And so Shameah
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  Speaker 1: went to Raye Boam and told him, you guys are sinning,
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  Speaker 1: and this is why this is happening. And so in
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  Speaker 1: verse six it says the princes of Israel and the
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  Speaker 1: King humbled themselves, and they said, yahweh is righteous. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: you see somebody humbling themselves, that usually means that they
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  Speaker 1: admit that they have done something wrong and that they
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  Speaker 1: deserve their punishment. So the King and the princes of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the leaders of Israel, now realize that they have done
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  Speaker 1: something seriously wrong, and so they do in fact humble themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And so when God saw verse seven that they humbled themselves,
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  Speaker 1: Yahwi's word came to Shamea, saying, they have humbled themselves.
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  Speaker 1: I will not destroy them, but I will grant them
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  Speaker 1: some deliverance, and my wrath won't be poured out on
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem by the hand of she Shack. Nevertheless, they will
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  Speaker 1: be His servants that they may know My service and
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  Speaker 1: the service of the kingdoms of the countries. So what
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  Speaker 1: God is saying there is that He's going to give
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  Speaker 1: Judah some deliverance. They're not going to be completely destroyed. However,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have to serve she Shack, the king
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt, specifically for the reason that Israel learns what
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  Speaker 1: it's like to serve a human master. That's what God
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  Speaker 1: says right here. Nevertheless, they will be his servants so
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  Speaker 1: that they may know My service and the service of
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  Speaker 1: the kingdoms of the countries. This reminds me of something
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus said in the New Testament. He said, take
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  Speaker 1: my yoke upon you, because my yoke is easy and
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  Speaker 1: my burden is light. So, yes, we do have a
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  Speaker 1: role in serving God, like when we worship God, when
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  Speaker 1: we become Christians, we are serving him. But serving God
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  Speaker 1: is so much easier, like his burden is so light
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  Speaker 1: compared to any of the other burdens, any of the
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  Speaker 1: other masters that we might serve. And that's what God
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  Speaker 1: is saying right here to Smeah. He's like, I Am
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  Speaker 1: going to allow Sheeshak to come in and take parts
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  Speaker 1: of Judah so that Judah learns is it better to
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  Speaker 1: serve a human master or is it better to serve me.
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  Speaker 1: So she Shak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: and took away the treasures of Yahwai's house. In the
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  Speaker 1: treasures of the king's house, he took it all away.
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  Speaker 1: So all of the wealth that Solomon had built for
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  Speaker 1: himself and for Israel is now gone. It is gone.
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  Speaker 1: It is now in Egypt. She Shack also took away
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  Speaker 1: the shields of gold which Solomon had made. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about those a few chapters ago. Solomon had made these
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  Speaker 1: just beautiful golden shields that were worth hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of dollars apiece, and he made hundreds of them. So
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  Speaker 1: now millions of dollars worth of gold are with she Shak,
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  Speaker 1: and ray A Boam has nothing anymore that his father
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  Speaker 1: left him, absolutely nothing. She Shack took it all away,
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  Speaker 1: is what it said. So King Raye Bouam in order
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  Speaker 1: to keep up appearances, and this is really embarrassing. Quite honestly,
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  Speaker 1: King Raya Boam made shields of bronze in their place
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  Speaker 1: and committed them to the hands of the captains of
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  Speaker 1: the guard who kept the door of the king's house.
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  Speaker 1: As often as the king entered into the yaway's house,
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  Speaker 1: the guard came and bore them, then brought them back
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  Speaker 1: into the guardroom. So now all of these beautiful shields
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  Speaker 1: made of gold are gone, and Raye Baoam, in order
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  Speaker 1: to make it look like he is as wise and
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  Speaker 1: as prosperous as his father, he replaces the gold shield
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  Speaker 1: with bronze. Now it's embarrassing about that is that when
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  Speaker 1: Solomon was the king, You'll remember a verse that said
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  Speaker 1: that Solomon made silver as common as the stones in
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  Speaker 1: the street. So, in other words, silver totally lost its
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  Speaker 1: value under the days of Solomon because of how rich
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  Speaker 1: Solomon had made Israel. And now Raa Boham can't even
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  Speaker 1: replace these shields with other golden shields. He has to
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  Speaker 1: replace them with a very cheap metal, specifically bronze, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, polished bronze it can look similar to gold,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not nearly as beautiful or as expensive as
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  Speaker 1: gold was. Reabaham did this to keep up appearances. It
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  Speaker 1: was just a fake imitation that honestly probably didn't even
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  Speaker 1: need to be done. But Reabaouam would display these shields
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  Speaker 1: every single time he went to Yahweh's house. He was
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep up appearances. That was all this really was.
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  Speaker 1: And noticed that it says that he did this whenever
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  Speaker 1: he entered into Yahweh's house, So he was really putting
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  Speaker 1: on a show. Every single time he went to the
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  Speaker 1: temple to worship. He would put on this big show
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  Speaker 1: to make it look like he was a true Yahweh follower.
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  Speaker 1: But yet his heart was not really with Yahweh. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twelve says when he humbled himself, Yahweh's wrath was turned
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  Speaker 1: from him so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: there were good things found in Judah, so that means
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  Speaker 1: whenever Raya Boham truly had a heart change toward Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: God would show mercy on him. And even though she
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  Speaker 1: Shaq went in and basically looted Judah, there were still
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  Speaker 1: good things found in the city. There were still places
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  Speaker 1: that were prosperous, there were still people who were wealthy,
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  Speaker 1: but overall the glory of Israel is now essentially gone.
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  Speaker 1: So King Raya Bohm, it says, strengthen himself in Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: and rain. For Raaboam was forty one years old when
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  Speaker 1: he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the
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  Speaker 1: tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's
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  Speaker 1: name was Nama the Ammonitis. He did that, which was
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  Speaker 1: evil because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: So even though Raya Boam did have moments of heart
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  Speaker 1: change towards Yahweh, overall he did nothing but evil. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't truly set his heart on Yahweh. The way David had,
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  Speaker 1: Raaboam's heart was constantly drifting with the tides. It was
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  Speaker 1: constantly just going wherever he felt like he wanted to go.
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  Speaker 1: If he wanted to worship Yahweh one day, he would
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  Speaker 1: do that. If he wanted to worship the Asherah the
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  Speaker 1: next day, he would do that. He just didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a solid foundation in God, so he did evil in
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  Speaker 1: the sight of God, is what it said. Now the
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  Speaker 1: acts of Raya Boam first and last, aren't they written
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  Speaker 1: in the histories of Smeah the Prophet and of Edo
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  Speaker 1: the Seer in the genieologies. Now we don't have either
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  Speaker 1: of those books. Those have been lost to history, but
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the Bible is not complete just
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  Speaker 1: because it references a book that we no longer have.
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  Speaker 1: It probably would be very fun to learn more about
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  Speaker 1: Reaboam and some of these other kings, but God has
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  Speaker 1: preserved his word and we have exactly what we need
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  Speaker 1: to know in it. There were wars between Reaboam and
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  Speaker 1: Jeroboam continually, so that's pretty interesting because in the last
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  Speaker 1: chapter it actually said that Reaboam did not go out
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  Speaker 1: to war when God specifically told him not to. But
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  Speaker 1: here we find out that Reeboam and Jeroboam were actually
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  Speaker 1: at war. So it could have been a cold war
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  Speaker 1: where there wasn't a lot of violence, or there could
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  Speaker 1: have been some battles breaking out here and there. Or
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  Speaker 1: this could have also been Reaboam later in life going
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  Speaker 1: and attacking Jeroboam, or Jeroboam himself initiating a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these fights. So even though Reaboam didn't initially go out
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  Speaker 1: to war with Israel, that doesn't mean that later on
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  Speaker 1: he didn't change his mind and just do whatever he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do, because as we can see, that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of how ray Bohm is. He just does whatever he
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  Speaker 1: wants to do. Ree Baham verse sixteen slept with his
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  Speaker 1: fathers and was buried in David City, and a Bijah,
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  Speaker 1: his son, reigned in his place. So we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: the life of a bai Jah when I get back
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  Speaker 1: from my sabbatical that I am taking starting tomorrow, So
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  Speaker 1: faithful listeners, I will see all of you on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: There won't be an episode for you members this Friday either,
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  Speaker 1: but next Thursday I will be back to do an
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  Speaker 1: episode from First Timothy for you guys, and then the
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  Speaker 1: week after that we'll get into the life of a Bijah,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Raya Boham. So faithful listeners, I hope
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  Speaker 1: you have a fantastic and wonderful week. I will see
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  Speaker 1: all of you guys next Thursday, bright and early for
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  Speaker 1: an episode from First Timothy. Happy listening, and God bless