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2 Chronicles 22 - Avoid Bad Advice, Even From Your Family · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 2: Hi there, faithful listeners. Thank you for tuning into the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Explain podcast on this lovely Monday morning and starting
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  Speaker 2: your week outright by reading some Bible with me and
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  Speaker 2: sharing a delicious cup of coffee. We'll be reading a
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  Speaker 2: new chapter of the Bible today, Second Chronicles twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Stay tuned. I hope you guys have had a really
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  Speaker 2: great week to start. I know that there was a
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  Speaker 2: really terrible storm that hit most of the eastern side
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  Speaker 2: of America, even down south got hit with snow and
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  Speaker 2: ice and all sorts of terrible things and power outages.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope you guys are all doing well now.
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  Speaker 2: For us, it was really interesting because everyone knew this
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  Speaker 2: storm was coming, and the weather men were essentially saying,
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  Speaker 2: this is the storm of the century, and that's how
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  Speaker 2: it was being portrayed. In fact, things in my area
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  Speaker 2: were pre canceling stuff like three days ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing that classes are being canceled and people are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, shutting the churches down on Sunday morning and
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  Speaker 2: all of this stuff because of this storm that was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be really really bad. Like I can definitely understand,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you guys down in Texas canceling stuff for
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  Speaker 2: ice storms and snowstorms, and.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody down south.
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  Speaker 2: I get it because you don't experience this kind of weather.
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  Speaker 2: But this is like an average Tuesday for us. So
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  Speaker 2: Sunday hit and we go to church and everything was fine.
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  Speaker 2: We actually had a decent sized crowd considering the snow.
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  Speaker 2: But afterward we tried to go out to lunch with
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  Speaker 2: a few people. There was not a single restaurant open,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, how the roads aren't that bad. There's
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  Speaker 2: no blizzard, you can see clearly, like where you're going,
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  Speaker 2: and yet everything is shut down. In fact, we got
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  Speaker 2: a worse snowstorm just a couple weeks ago and nothing
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  Speaker 2: was shut down then.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But speaking of drama, let's go ahead and read Second
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  Speaker 2: Chronicles twenty two, the entire chapter. And as I usually don't,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be reading from a different version of
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  Speaker 2: scripture today. I usually read from the web, but today
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  Speaker 2: we'll be reading from the es V version. But before
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and read Second Chronicles twenty two the
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  Speaker 2: entire thing again. I'll be reading this from the es
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  Speaker 2: V this morning. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made a Hazia,
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  Speaker 2: his youngest son, king in his place, for the band
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  Speaker 2: of men that came with the Arabians to the camp
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  Speaker 2: had killed all the older sons. So Ajazia the king
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  Speaker 2: of Jehoram, King of Judah, reigned. Ajazio was twenty two
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  Speaker 2: years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
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  Speaker 2: one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athalia, the
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  Speaker 2: granddaughter of Omri. He also walked in the ways of
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  Speaker 2: the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor
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  Speaker 2: in doing wickedly. He did what was evil in the
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  Speaker 2: sight of the Lord, as the house of a Hab
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  Speaker 2: had done, for after the death of his father, they
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  Speaker 2: were his counselors to his undoing. He even followed their
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  Speaker 2: council and went with Jehoorah, the son of Ahab, king
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  Speaker 2: of Israel, to make war against Hazil, the king of Syria,
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  Speaker 2: at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram, and he
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  Speaker 2: returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that
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  Speaker 2: he had received at Ramah when he fought against Hazel,
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  Speaker 2: the king of Syria, and Ajazi, the son of Jehoah,
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  Speaker 2: king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son
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  Speaker 2: of Ahab and Jezreel, because he was wounded. But it
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  Speaker 2: was ordained by God that the downfall of Ajazia should
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  Speaker 2: come about through his going to visit Joram. For when
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  Speaker 2: he came there, he went out with Jehoam to meet Jehu,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to
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  Speaker 2: destroy the house of Ahab. And when Jehu was executing
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  Speaker 2: judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes
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  Speaker 2: of Judah and the sons of Ajazia's brothers who attended Ajazia,
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  Speaker 2: and he killed them. He searched for Ajazia, and he
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  Speaker 2: was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought
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  Speaker 2: to Jehu and put to death. They buried him for
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  Speaker 2: they said he is the grandson of jehash Fat, who
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  Speaker 2: sought the Lord with all his heart. And the house
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  Speaker 2: of Ajazia had no one able to rule the kingdom. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when Athaliah, the mother of a Hazia, saw that her
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  Speaker 2: son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal
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  Speaker 2: family of the House of Judah. But Jehashabath, the daughter
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  Speaker 2: of the king, took joe Ash, the son of Ajazia,
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  Speaker 2: and stole him away from among the king's sons who
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  Speaker 2: were about to be put to death, and she put
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  Speaker 2: him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus, Jehashabath, the
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  Speaker 2: daughter of the King of Jehorah and wife of Jehoitah
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  Speaker 2: the priest, because she was sister of Ajazia, hid him
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  Speaker 2: from Athalia so that she did not put him to death,
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  Speaker 2: and he remained with them six years hidden in the
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  Speaker 2: House of God while Athalia reigned over the land. This
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  Speaker 2: is where things get really confusing in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 2: because everybody has the same name or names that sound
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  Speaker 2: very close to each other, and so it's like, who
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  Speaker 2: is Scripture talking about right now? So we'll go over it.
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  Speaker 2: It says in verse one that the inhabitants of Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: made Ajazia his youngest son king in his place, So
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  Speaker 2: who are they talking about here? Well, in the previous chapter,
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  Speaker 2: in Second Chronicles twenty one, it was talking all all
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  Speaker 2: about Jehoah, the son of Jehoshaphat, And we talked about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Jehoshaphat's reign for quite a while, and he
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  Speaker 2: was a great king, and you guys probably remember talking
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  Speaker 2: about him. But Jehorah, you know, we only covered him
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  Speaker 2: for one day on the podcast because his reign was
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  Speaker 2: so fast. He only reigned eight years, and there's really
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  Speaker 2: nothing notable that he did other than cause a whole
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  Speaker 2: bunch of destruction in Jerusalem and Judah. So he did
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  Speaker 2: the opposite of good things. He did a lot of
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  Speaker 2: very bad things, and Edam revolted, even Libnah revolted during
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  Speaker 2: his time in Libna. I just found out today actually
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  Speaker 2: was a priestly city in Jerusalem itself. And because of
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  Speaker 2: all of the terrible things that Jehorah did while he
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  Speaker 2: was king for eight years, Libnah revolted as a priest city.
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  Speaker 2: They said, no, we're not going along with this, and
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  Speaker 2: that was a big problem in Jehoram's day as well. Now,
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  Speaker 2: God ended up judging Jehorah pretty greatly because of all
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  Speaker 2: of the idolatry he brought into Jerusalem and Judah as
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  Speaker 2: a whole. And all this idolatry that he brought in
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  Speaker 2: was actually stuff that jehash Fat before him and Asa
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  Speaker 2: the king before jehash Fat were trying to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of during their reigns, they were removing all the cult
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  Speaker 2: behavior in Judah and Jerusalem. But then Jehorah comes in
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  Speaker 2: and during his eight years undid everything his father and
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  Speaker 2: grandfather before him had accomplished, and he brings in all
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  Speaker 2: of this idolatry into Jerusalem and Judah. So God judges Jehorah,
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  Speaker 2: and what ends up happening is these Arabians and Philistines
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  Speaker 2: banned together to destroy the House of Jehorah, and they
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  Speaker 2: were pretty successful for the most part. They killed most
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  Speaker 2: of Johorah's sons except for the youngest son named Ahazia
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  Speaker 2: or in some versions of scripture, jehoah Has. But Jehorah
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  Speaker 2: did not die in that battle. His sons died, but
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  Speaker 2: he did not die. He actually died of a really
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  Speaker 2: bad disease. No one's sure exactly what he died of,
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  Speaker 2: but most people guess it's a prolapse of some sort
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  Speaker 2: or cancer.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the two guesses.
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  Speaker 2: But he died in a lot of pain, and when
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  Speaker 2: he died, no one was sad. It's what scripture says,
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  Speaker 2: that is how hated Jehoram was. He didn't even get
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  Speaker 2: a proper burial that the king's got. In fact, if
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  Speaker 2: you read the writings of Josephus, it actually says that
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  Speaker 2: they desecrated his body as well, though scripture does not
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  Speaker 2: mention that. But I found that kind of interesting. But
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  Speaker 2: in Second Chronicles twenty two, starting in verse one, here's
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  Speaker 2: what it says. The inhabitants of Jerusalem made a Hazia,
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  Speaker 2: his youngest son, king in Jehoram's place, for the band
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  Speaker 2: of men that came with the Arabians to the camp
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  Speaker 2: had killed all the older sons. So Ajazia, the son
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  Speaker 2: of Jehoram, king of Judah, reigned. A Jazio was twenty
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  Speaker 2: two years old when he began to reign, and he
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  Speaker 2: reigned one year in Jerusalem. So that show's right there
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  Speaker 2: that there was only one reason why a Jazia became
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  Speaker 2: the king, because he was the only heir left to
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  Speaker 2: the throne, like literally everybody else had died. So this
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  Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily mean that Jerusalem and Judah wanted Ajazia as king,
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  Speaker 2: but he was truly the only person left, so they
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  Speaker 2: made him the king. He was very young when he
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  Speaker 2: became the king. It says he was twenty two years old. Now,
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  Speaker 2: depending on whatever version you have, it may actually say
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  Speaker 2: forty two years old, and that's a little bit contested
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  Speaker 2: as to whether he was twenty two or forty two.
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  Speaker 2: But most scholars believe that he was twenty two years
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  Speaker 2: old because if you go back to the Septuagint, that
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  Speaker 2: is what it says in the situagent, and also if
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  Speaker 2: you read Second King's chapter eight, it also mentions that
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  Speaker 2: he was twenty two years old when he became the king.
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  Speaker 2: Second Kings eight twenty six says Ajazio was twenty two
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  Speaker 2: years old when he began to reign and he reigned
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  Speaker 2: one year in Jerusalem. So most likely, based upon that
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  Speaker 2: and based upon the Subtuagent, Ajazia was in fact twenty
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  Speaker 2: two years old when he became the king, and it
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  Speaker 2: says that he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's
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  Speaker 2: name was Athalia, the Grand of Omri. Now we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about Athalia before because she was a really, really bad person.
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  Speaker 2: She was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. She was
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  Speaker 2: a bad person. You know. Jezebel was absolutely awful. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about her in First and Second Kings, and she
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  Speaker 2: caused all sorts of problems up in Israel. She was
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  Speaker 2: bringing in bail worship. She was killing people left and
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  Speaker 2: right for just no reason whatsoever. She ended up plotting
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  Speaker 2: to kill a man and all of his children for
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  Speaker 2: a piece of land because she wanted the land that
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  Speaker 2: the man owned.
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  Speaker 1: And on top of that, she was.
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  Speaker 2: Just killing priests like priests of Yahweh left and right
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  Speaker 2: because she hated Yahwism and didn't want it in Israel,
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  Speaker 2: even though it was the religion of the Israelites. She
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  Speaker 2: only wanted bail worship to come in. So she was
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  Speaker 2: killing all of God's priests and wanted nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with them. And so Athalia is their daughter, and she
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  Speaker 2: married Jehoram, Jehashafat's son because of the union Jehashafat had
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  Speaker 2: with King Ahab, and God did not bless that union
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  Speaker 2: between Ahab and Jehoshaphat. In fact, he was angry at
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  Speaker 2: Jehashafat for making that peace treaty in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: He said to jehash Fat, why would you love people
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  Speaker 2: that hate me and hate my commandments? It was just
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  Speaker 2: bad news. Because here's what it says right here in
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  Speaker 2: verse two, Ahazia's mother's name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
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  Speaker 2: He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,
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  Speaker 2: for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly. So Athaliah,
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  Speaker 2: this terrible daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, counseled her son
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  Speaker 2: to do wickedly, is what it said. And unfortunately he listened.
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  Speaker 2: He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as
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  Speaker 2: the house of Ahab had done, for after the death
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  Speaker 2: of his father, they were his counselors to his undoing. Ahazia,
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  Speaker 2: who is the new king, is listening to the wrong crowd.
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  Speaker 2: He is listening to his mother's family and his mother
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  Speaker 2: who are training him and advising him to do very wickedly.
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  Speaker 2: So this shows a few things actually for us nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing is that we shouldn't take bad counsel.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what it says in Psalm chapter one one through two.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed is the man who walks not in the council
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  Speaker 2: of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners,
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  Speaker 2: nor sits in the seat of scoffers. But his delight
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  Speaker 2: is in the law of the Lord. And on his
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  Speaker 2: law he meditates day and night, and then there's a
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  Speaker 2: proverb also that talks about bad counsel as well. Proverbs
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  Speaker 2: thirteen twenty says whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
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  Speaker 2: but the companion of fools will suffer harm. And another proverb,
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  Speaker 2: which is Proverbs twelve, verse five says the thoughts of
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  Speaker 2: the righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked
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  Speaker 2: are deceitful. All those verses are talking about receiving wise counsel.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the thing, Ahazia had these verses. Solomon, who
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  Speaker 2: wrote pretty much the entirety of the Book of Proverbs,
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  Speaker 2: had already written all of this stuff down. Proverbs is
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  Speaker 2: filled to the brim with wisdom. Ahazia could have taken
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  Speaker 2: knowledge from these scriptures, from the past kings, from David,
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  Speaker 2: and from Solomon, who wrote these things down about bad council.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately a Hazia did not do that. He took
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  Speaker 2: the advice of his mother Athalia and also the house
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  Speaker 2: of Ahab, and scripture says specifically that it was to
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  Speaker 2: his undoing. Then Second Chronicles twenty two to five says
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  Speaker 2: he even followed their council and went with Jehoram, the
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  Speaker 2: son of Ahab, king of Israel to make war against
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  Speaker 2: Haziel the King of Syria. Ramoth Gilead and the Syrians
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  Speaker 2: wounded Joram and he returned to be healed in Jezreel
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  Speaker 2: of the wounds that he received at Rama when he
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  Speaker 2: fought against Hazil the King of Syria. So that is
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  Speaker 2: how far the bad Council went that Hazia is getting
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  Speaker 2: into wars that are none of his business in order
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  Speaker 2: to help his family out. Because Ahazia also had an
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  Speaker 2: uncle named Jehoram, and that's where things get really confusing.
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  Speaker 2: And the uncle named Jehorah was the son of Ahab,
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  Speaker 2: and most likely Ahazia's father named Jehoram was named after
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  Speaker 2: the uncle Jehorah because of the alliance that jehash Fat
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  Speaker 2: and Ahab had with each other. But yeah, if you
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  Speaker 2: can keep everything straight, Ahazia went with his uncle Jehoram,
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  Speaker 2: who was Ahab's son and the king of Israel at
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  Speaker 2: this time and a very wicked king by the way,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about his life before too. He went with
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  Speaker 2: him into this battle, and this was not any place
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  Speaker 2: that Ajazia needed to be. He didn't need to be
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  Speaker 2: going into battle. First and foremost and causing the people
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  Speaker 2: of Judah to have their lives be endangered over a
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  Speaker 2: battle that did not matter at the time, only to
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  Speaker 2: help his uncle. It was not fair to the people
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  Speaker 2: of Judah at all, who had follow their king into
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  Speaker 2: this battle. There was nothing could do about it. But yet,
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  Speaker 2: because Ajazia was listening to the worst council ever, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't care about the life of his people. He only
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  Speaker 2: cared about his family. And you can see right here
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  Speaker 2: that the family of King Ahab was very arrogant and
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  Speaker 2: very self centered. And we'll talk about that in just
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  Speaker 2: a second here. So it says right here that Ahazia,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to
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  Speaker 2: see Joram, the son of Jezreel, because he was wounded.
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  Speaker 2: So jehorahm also named Joram, which is another way it
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  Speaker 2: gets confusing. The uncle of Ajazia ended up getting wounded
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  Speaker 2: in that battle, and so Ajazia goes to visit his
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  Speaker 2: uncle who was healing up in Jezreel. But what's interesting
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  Speaker 2: is in verse seven, it says right here that it
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  Speaker 2: was ordained by God that the downfall of Ajazia should
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  Speaker 2: come about through his going to visit Jehorah, for when
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  Speaker 2: he came there, he went out with Jehorah to meet
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  Speaker 2: jahu the son of me She, whom the Lord had
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  Speaker 2: anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. That's talked about
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  Speaker 2: in Second Kings chapter eight and nine, so let's read
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  Speaker 2: Second Kings eight, twenty eight and twenty nine to start.
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  Speaker 2: It says Ajazia went with Joram, the son of Ahab
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  Speaker 2: to war against Haziel the King of Syria Ramath Gilead,
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  Speaker 2: and the Syrians wounded Joram King.
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  Speaker 1: Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from.
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  Speaker 2: The wounds which the Syrians had given him a rama
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  Speaker 2: when he fought against Haziel the King of Syria. Ajazia,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Jehorah, King of Judah, went down to
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  Speaker 2: see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he
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  Speaker 2: was sick. And then if we move into the next chapter,
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  Speaker 2: it talks about how during that time of Jehoram being sick,
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  Speaker 2: God actually anointed another man of Israel to take Jehoram's
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  Speaker 2: place and completely destroy the entire line of Ahab because
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  Speaker 2: of all the terrible things they had done. And that's
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  Speaker 2: talked about at the beginning of Second King's chapter nine,
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  Speaker 2: and that guy's name was jay Who, And we talked
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  Speaker 2: about jay Who's life a while back when we discussed
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  Speaker 2: Second King's chapter nine and jay Who he went a
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  Speaker 2: little too far, not a little bit, he went very
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  Speaker 2: too far. He killed people that he should not have killed.
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  Speaker 2: So he was not a great man either, But he
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  Speaker 2: did enact God's judgments on Ahab's line, and that included
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  Speaker 2: actually a Hazia as well, who was the grandson of
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  Speaker 2: King Ahab through his mother. So in Second Kings nine,
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty one, it says that Jehoram was finally feeling
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  Speaker 2: better after being wounded, and he hears about Jayhu, so
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  Speaker 2: he goes out to meet him. And so here's what
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  Speaker 2: it says, starting in verse twenty one. Jehorah said, get ready,
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  Speaker 2: so they got his chariot ready. Then Joram, the King
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  Speaker 2: of Israel, and a Hazia, the King of Judah, went
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  Speaker 2: out each in his chariot because don't forget, was there
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  Speaker 2: visiting his uncle Jehoram. And they went out to meet
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  Speaker 2: Jehu and found him on Nabeth, the Jezreelites land. When
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  Speaker 2: Joram saw Jehu, he said, is it peace?
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  Speaker 1: Jehu?
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  Speaker 2: He answered, what peace? As long as the prostitution of
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  Speaker 2: your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound. Joram turned his
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  Speaker 2: hands and fled, and he said to Ajazia, this is treason.
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  Speaker 1: Ajazia.
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  Speaker 2: Jehu drew his bow with full strength and struck Joram
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  Speaker 2: between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart,
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  Speaker 2: and he sunk down in his chariot. Then Jaehu said
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  Speaker 2: to Bidcar his captain, pick him up and throw him
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  Speaker 2: in the plot of the field of Nabeth, the Jezreelite.
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  Speaker 2: For remember when you and I rode together after Ahab,
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  Speaker 2: his father Yahweh laid this burden on him. Surely I
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  Speaker 2: have seen yesterday the blood of Nabeth and the blood
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  Speaker 2: of his sons, says Yahweh. And I will repay you
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  Speaker 2: in this plot of ground, says Yahweh. Now, therefore take
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  Speaker 2: and cast him onto the plot of ground according to
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  Speaker 2: Yahweh's word. But the King of Judah saw this. He
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  Speaker 2: fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed
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  Speaker 2: after him and said it strike him also in the chariot.
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  Speaker 2: They struck him at the ascent of Ger, which is
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  Speaker 2: by a bleam. He fled it to Megido and died there.
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  Speaker 2: His servants carried him in chariots to Jerusalem and buried
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  Speaker 2: him in his tomb and with his fathers in David's city.
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  Speaker 2: In the eleventh year, Joram, the son of Ahab Ajazia,
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  Speaker 2: began to reign over Judah. So in a Nutshell that
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  Speaker 2: tells the story of what happened to Ahazia, and Second
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  Speaker 2: Chronicles twenty two repeats that story. In verses seven through nine.
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  Speaker 2: It says, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house
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  Speaker 2: of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the
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  Speaker 2: sons of Ajazia's brothers, who attended a Hazia and killed them.
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  Speaker 2: He searched for Hazia, and he was captured while hiding
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  Speaker 2: in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put
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  Speaker 2: to death. They buried him for they said he is
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  Speaker 2: the grandson of jehash Fat, who sought the Lord with
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  Speaker 2: all his heart, and the house of Hazia had no
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  Speaker 2: one able to rule the kingdom. So I find it
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  Speaker 2: kind of interesting that the only reason the people of
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  Speaker 2: Judah buried Ahazia was because of Jehashafat. That's what it
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  Speaker 2: says right here. They buried Ahazia for they said he
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  Speaker 2: is the grandson of Jehashafat, who sought the Lord with
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  Speaker 2: all his heart. So again, Ahazia, nobody was really all
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  Speaker 2: that sad that he died, And the only reason he
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  Speaker 2: was buried with the other kings was because of how
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  Speaker 2: good of a king his grandfather, Jehashapat had been. That's
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  Speaker 2: the only reason the people gave Ajazia any honor during
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  Speaker 2: his death. But it mentions right here that the house
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  Speaker 2: of Ajazia or the line of King David had no
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  Speaker 2: one able to rule the kingdom because of what happens
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  Speaker 2: right after this in verse ten. Now, when Athaliah, the
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  Speaker 2: mother of Ajazia, saw that her son was dead, she
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  Speaker 2: arose and destroyed all the royal family of the House
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  Speaker 2: of Judah. So she went and finished what her husband
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  Speaker 2: had started. Her husband, Jehorah, had killed all of his brothers.
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  Speaker 2: She went and killed everybody else after her son had died.
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  Speaker 2: And here's why, because she wanted to destroy the royal
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  Speaker 2: family of the House of Judah, or rather the House
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  Speaker 2: of David. She wanted them all gone because she hated
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  Speaker 2: them because she was very self focused on her own
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  Speaker 2: family and Ahab's royal line. So this means she found
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  Speaker 2: anybody who could have been the next in line for
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  Speaker 2: the throne and she killed them, including her own grand children.
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  Speaker 2: Verse eleven, Jehasha Bath, the daughter of the king, took
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  Speaker 2: joe Ash, the son of a Jazia, and stole him
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  Speaker 2: away from among the king's sons who were about to
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  Speaker 2: be put to death, and she put him and his
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  Speaker 2: nurse in a bedroom. So it gets confusing once again.
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  Speaker 2: Jehasha Bath was the daughter of King Jehorah, but not
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  Speaker 2: the daughter of a thought because you know, the kings
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  Speaker 2: had five hundred wives back in these days, and so
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  Speaker 2: she would have been the daughter of one of the
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  Speaker 2: other wives of Jehoram. So she was the stepsister of
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  Speaker 2: King Ahazia, who had just recently died. And it turns
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  Speaker 2: out that Jehasha Bath was also married to Jehoida, the
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  Speaker 2: high priest, so she was presumably a god fearing woman.
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  Speaker 2: Also because she was married to the high priest, it
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  Speaker 2: says in verse eleven that she was the sister of
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  Speaker 2: Ajazia and hid him or baby joe Ash from Athalia,
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  Speaker 2: so that she did not put him to death, and
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  Speaker 2: he remained with them six years hidden in the House
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  Speaker 2: of God while Athalia reigned over the land. We don't
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  Speaker 2: know how many sons Ajazia had had. It could have
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  Speaker 2: been that he had a lot, actually, because even though
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  Speaker 2: he was only twenty two twenty three years old when
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  Speaker 2: he had died, that does not mean that he didn't
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  Speaker 2: get an early start, you know, as the king. Things
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  Speaker 2: were very different back in those days, and there is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of women at the king's demand, So it
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  Speaker 2: could be that he had many, many children. Actually, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know how many he had, but whatever it was,
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  Speaker 2: Athalia made it her mission to kill every single one
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  Speaker 2: of these children.
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  Speaker 1: But somehow baby joe.
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  Speaker 2: Ash slipped through the cracks, and Athalia did not know
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  Speaker 2: that this baby didn't die, and that is because Jehasha
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  Speaker 2: Bath protected her nephew when he was about to die.
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  Speaker 2: So reading through this chapter you can definitely learn a
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  Speaker 2: few things. The first thing is that it's bad to
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  Speaker 2: take bad counsel, and that might sound obvious, but think
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  Speaker 2: about who King Ahazi was taking bad counsel from. He
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  Speaker 2: was taking this council from his family and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people nowadays, probably think that it's good to take
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  Speaker 2: advice from your family members. It's good to take advice
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  Speaker 2: from your mom because mom is always right. And maybe
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  Speaker 2: a Hazia had that same kind of idea that, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my mom couldn't possibly be wrong. You know, she's the
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  Speaker 2: daughter of a king, a very famous king. She's wise
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  Speaker 2: in her own ways, you know, and so I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: take her advice. No, you do not take bad advice.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who it comes from. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: if it's your mom, who you love more than anybody
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  Speaker 2: else on this planet. You don't take her bad advice,
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  Speaker 2: especially if it goes against what the Bible says. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot take that advice. You have to follow God before
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  Speaker 2: you follow anybody else. Yes, you still honor your parents,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't sin while you're honoring your parents. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the first thing we can learn. Bad counsel is bad,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter who it comes from. And the second
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  Speaker 2: thing we learn is that when evil seems to rise,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the form of a Folia right here,
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  Speaker 2: who is killing all of her grandchildren, God always raises
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  Speaker 2: up somebody to protect us. And in this case, it
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  Speaker 2: was a wise woman who rose up to protect the
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  Speaker 2: people of Judah by protecting her nephew, who would become
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  Speaker 2: the next king. And in this case, it actually says
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  Speaker 2: at the very end that Athalia reigned over the land
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  Speaker 2: for six years. Six long years Judah had to deal
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  Speaker 2: with this terrible baile worshiping Phoenician woman who was only
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  Speaker 2: queen because of her family relations, not because she was
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  Speaker 2: Jewish or a Yahweh worshiper, but because she married into
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  Speaker 2: the line of David. But even though things looked really
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: dark and really grim for those six years in Judah's history,
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  Speaker 2: God was working behind the scenes, very quietly. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't look like anything good was happening, but indeed
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  Speaker 2: something good was in fact happening. A wise woman and
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  Speaker 2: her husband, the priest, was raising a little boy who
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  Speaker 2: was going to become the next king and save Judah
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  Speaker 2: from this terrible woman who caused so many problems. Faithful listenators,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening to today's episode. I
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  Speaker 2: have some closing remarks I'd like to make, but before
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  Speaker 2: really love that Old Testament scripture is relatable to today,
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  Speaker 2: even though it doesn't seem like it initially, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're reading about all of these kings that seem
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  Speaker 2: to live so long ago, and they have such crazy
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  Speaker 2: names that you can't pronounce, yet their stories are so relatable,
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  Speaker 2: and it's especially nice to read these stories of how
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  Speaker 2: God is working behind the scenes. You know, God does
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  Speaker 2: not often work the way we think he's going to.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of that story that we
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  Speaker 2: read about in First Kings where Elijah was so distressed
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  Speaker 2: over what was happening in Israel under the rule of
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  Speaker 2: Ahab and Jezebel that he ran away, and he ran
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  Speaker 2: away to this mountain where he's wondering where God is.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: And he's up on that mountain and all of these
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: natural disasters start happening, like this whirlwind and this, like
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  Speaker 2: fire and stuff, and yet God was not in those things.
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  Speaker 2: But then right after all of those natural disasters happen,
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  Speaker 2: Elijah hears a still small voice, and that was God.
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  Speaker 2: He was not in those natural disasters. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: we think God is going to do for us. We
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: think he's going to act big and do you know,
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  Speaker 2: amazing miracles in the sight of everybody, But no, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times he is quiet, and He works behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes, things that we don't know what is happening,
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  Speaker 2: things we can't see, just like the story we read
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  Speaker 2: today where that little baby was saved from being killed
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  Speaker 2: by his own grandmother, and that baby was being raised
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  Speaker 2: very quietly, very secretively. Nobody knew about it because if
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: anybody found out, Atholia would go and kill the baby.
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  Speaker 2: So it had to be quiet, it had to be
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. And Israel, i'm sure, had no clue
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  Speaker 2: that God was raising up a king for them in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of all of these trials that they're going
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  Speaker 2: through under Queen a Folia, if you can even call
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  Speaker 2: her a queen. So that is what you can take
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  Speaker 2: comfort in today in this story, is that God is
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  Speaker 2: always working and we don't always need to know what
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  Speaker 2: is going on. We just have to trust that God's
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  Speaker 2: got it. Faithful listeners, have a fantastic and wonderful rest
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