00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:20 Navigating the Complexities of Chronicles
00:56 Resources for Understanding
A Synoptic Harmony of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles
02:13 Sunday Announcements
02:43 Jehoshaphat's Reforms and Challenges
05:05 The Power of Fasting and Prayer
07:57 Jehoshaphat's Victory Through Praise
10:34 The Reign of Jehoram
13:11 The Short Reign of Ahaziah
14:26 Athaliah's Usurpation and Joash's Rescue
15:26 Joash's Ascension and Reforms
17:18 Conclusion and Encouragement
Welcome back Bible people.
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:It is another edition of
the daily Bible podcast.
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:Today is June 30th, 2024.
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:And this is Sunday's edition.
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:Now, this is a lot of territory
that we're covering today.
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:So we're looking at second Chronicles
19, all the way through chapter 23,
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:second Chronicles 19 through chapter 23.
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:Now I've mentioned this resource
before, but I want to commend it to you
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:again, in case you're having difficulty
following some of the narrative.
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:I know that's hard.
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:You've got two parallel accounts
are mostly parallel with overlapping
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:characters and it's never.
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:In fact, we're about to cover
two Kings with the same name.
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:You've got your Horam.
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:And who are both Kings in
each respective kingdoms.
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:And so you have a Judean king named
and , and then you have an Israel,
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:king and Israeli king, there we go.
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:Named Isaiah and your Hora.
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:So it can get a bit confusing.
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:So I want to come into a book called.
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:A synoptic harmony of
Samuel Kings and Chronicles.
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:And what I'll do for you is I'll
put this in the show notes so that
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:you have a link to it on Amazon.
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:It's a couple of dollars, but
it's worth having in your arsenal.
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:As you seek to understand.
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:Who's ruling when and where and how that
fits with the corresponding material
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:in the either Chronicles or Kings.
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:And so this book has been enormously
helpful to me as I've been working for.
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:Understanding this, the section for
the podcast and helping you guys out.
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:I've also downloaded a few graphics
that have been helpful for me
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:to visually see who's ruling
and where they're ruling from.
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:And so what I'll do is I'll link
the book and I'll also put in
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:the graphics that I'm using.
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:Now.
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:Some of them have.
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:They're not precise the graphics there
they're meant to be a graphical depiction
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:of what you're reading in the story.
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:So it's not exactly.
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:Precise but they're very good.
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:They're very helpful.
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:Especially when you get to see
some of these, that show the
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:relationships between the Kings,
for instance, Jessebelle and Ahab.
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:They have three kids that are mentioned
and relevant to our text after Elia Jorah.
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:and a Isaiah.
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:And so you see some of these connections
and it's really helpful to see it there.
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:So I'm going to put
these in the show notes.
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:If you have any interest,
hopefully you do.
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:And you can find them there
and make good use of them.
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:The next time you jumped
into Kings and Chronicles.
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:Well, today is Sunday
and I have good news.
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:If you are from the compass
in north Texas church plant.
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:Not a planet anymore.
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:Are we?
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:We're?
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:We're a church.
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:If you're F if you're at the church
compass Bible church, north, Texas.
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:That's where PG is back in
the pulpit this morning.
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:So please don't miss it.
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:Welcome him back.
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:He is now old and decrepit.
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:He's 40 years old.
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:Please make sure to note
that when you see him.
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:If you see him with a cane or in a
wheelchair, just know this is par for
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:the course 40 years old, you hit it.
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:You're over the hill.
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:That's over.
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:All right.
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:Second Chronicles 19 through 23.
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:I'm totally joking.
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:40 is still super young in my book.
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:And even older than that, if you're
50, I still think you're pretty young.
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:Sprite 50 is a new 30, as they say.
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:Okay, second Chronicles.
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:Starting at chapter 19 while we're
finishing up the rain of : today.
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:And if you recall, we began covering
his reign in second Chronicles,
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:chapter 17, so 17 through 20
coverage, your high Shabbats rain.
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:We've already seen him interact
with a rehab, which is chapter
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:18 of second Chronicles.
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:And we saw that hopefully he
learned his lesson in that.
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:Well in chapter 19, we get to read about
some of the reforms that he institutes.
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:And.
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:Yeah, some of this comes
by way of Jay who's.
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:The son of This year.
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:Uh, he comes, bearing a word of the
Lord and he says, should you help the
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:wicked and love those who hate the Lord?
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:He's referring to his interaction
with a rehab in the Northern kingdom.
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:He saying, what were you doing?
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:That's not the way a good king should act.
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:He says, because of this wrath has
gone out against you from the Lord.
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:Nevertheless.
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:Some good as found in you
for you destroy the Ashraf.
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:Out of the land and you've
set your heart to seek God.
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:So there's a bit of a bit of criticism,
even though there's going to be
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:mercy, God showing him kindness.
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:And part of this in chapter 19 is
as how Jehoshaphat responds and
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:he's appointing judges, a kind
of Supreme court for the land.
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:So that there's justice in the land.
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:There's not blood guilt put upon them.
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:And then he appoints Levi's and
priests and heads of families of
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:the Lord to help decide these cases.
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:And so he's doing a lot of good
things and then he issues the command
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:at the very end of chapter 19.
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:He tells them deal courageously.
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:And may the Lord be with the upright.
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:And so you see some really good
reforms here that Jehoshaphat
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:institutes in first Chronicles.
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:Excuse me.
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:Second Chronicles chapter 19.
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:Second Chronicles chapter 20.
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:Jehoshaphat is encountering some
opposition, some resistance, the
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:Moabites and the Ammonites along with
this group called the mew Knights,
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:come against Jehoshaphat for battle.
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:Now these names should
be somewhat familiar.
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:These are close relatives
of the Israelites of Israel
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:and total and Judah as well.
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:And so they're being attacked
by, by distant family.
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:This is not a good situation.
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:Jehoshaphat was afraid
much like you would be.
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:If you saw that there was
enemies on your doorstep.
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:And look at how he
responds in verse three.
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:He was afraid and he set
his face to seek the Lord.
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:And he proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judea.
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:Now this is something we haven't
really talked much about fasting.
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:Where does this fit into
the Christian life today?
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:But Jehoshaphat.
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:In response to the imminent
threat, he's afraid he responds by
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:setting his face to seek the Lord.
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:And part of the way he does that is
by denying himself food so that he
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:can focus more intently on the Lord.
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:I think there's times for us to do this
as well as your Harsha fan is afraid.
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:And that's probably a good time.
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:I don't know about you, but there
are times in my life when I fast.
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:Almost incidentally because of
what's happening in my life.
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:There's some kind of stressor or some
kind of fear that's causing me to respond.
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:Um, I don't want to call it anxiety,
but there's a kind of anxiety there.
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:I naturally don't want to eat because
I'm focused on something else.
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:That's much more important to me.
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:I guess that's an, a sense of
what's happening when someone
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:fasts, but fascinating is just a
way for us to say, Lord, I really
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:want you to deliver on this.
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:God, I need you to intervene it.
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:I need you to do something about this.
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:That's what your hotshot does
and that's what you can do.
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:I think fasting is still a neglected
spiritual discipline today that
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:we could utilize to help sharpen
our spiritual sensibilities.
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:And maybe that's something you can re.
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:Uh, reintegrate into your life or
integrate for the first time into some
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:of your regular spiritual disciplines.
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:Jehoshaphat's response
is, is a good response.
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:And part of what we have here is the
recording of his prayer to the Lord.
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:And it is a beautiful prayer.
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:It has so many things that
are good and helpful to us.
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:Um, he does something that I think is
helpful for you to see in verse seven,
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:he says, did you not our God drive out
the inhabitants of this land before your
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:people Israel and give it forever to
the descendants of Abraham, your friend.
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:Um, Jehoshaphat's recalls and
rehearses God's prior deliverance.
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:And this is a form of not only
encouraging himself to remain faithful
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:to the Lord and steadfast, but also
calling out to the Lord and saying, do
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:you not remember, Lord, you did this.
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:Look how you did this before, and we're
trusting that you're going to do it again.
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:So he says in verse 12, I like
this, the last line of verse 12.
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:We do not know what to do.
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:But our eyes are on you and
maybe you're in that place.
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:What a good response that is.
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:We don't know what to do.
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:Gut.
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:But we're looking to you.
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:Today, thankfully, we're
not just looking in prayer.
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:We can look at his word.
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:We have the privilege and embarrassment
of riches, where we have the privilege
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:of having the Bible and so many
different translations and versions.
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:We may not know what to
do, but we can look to him.
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:In his word as we pray, what a great
thing that is, what a great privilege.
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:And so Judah stood before the Lord with
their little ones or wives or children.
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:It says here in verse 13, and the spirit
of the Lord comes upon you, Hazel.
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:The son of Zechariah, son
of benign us and of jail.
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:Send a mat tonight.
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:Naya a leave height of the sons of ASAP.
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:So this guy has got a good pedigree.
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:And then he responds on
behalf of guidance, says,
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:Hey, the battle's not yours.
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:It is the Lord's tomorrow.
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:Uh, go down against them and
they're going to come up this way.
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:So be prepared, but verse 17, you
will need not fight in this battle.
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:Stanford.
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:He says, stand for him and trust that I
will deliver you and surprise, surprise.
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:That's exactly what God does, but I want
you to see here in this in verse 21.
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:Notice how they respond.
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:They send the musicians ahead of
them into the battle and they're
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:singing the Chris Tomlin song.
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:Give thanks to the Lord for his
steadfast love endures forever, actually.
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:This is a callback to
first Chronicles,:
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:They began singing this song.
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:This is a song of David,
something that he wrote.
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:And they're still singing it today
as evidence of the fact that they
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:are faithful to Yahweh and y'all
we alone, they're trusting him so
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:much so that they're not putting
their . best military in front.
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:They're putting their best
musicians, which is interesting.
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:If I were a musician and
take a lot of courage.
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:I am a musician, I guess dig
a lot of courage to be in the
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:front lines of the battle.
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:, when you're facing an opponent that
has every desire to take you out.
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:But look what God does.
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:In verse 22, when they began to sing and
praise the Lord set an ambush against
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:these men, it was God himself who
intervenes on their behalf in response
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:to their praise in response to their
prayers, God himself, directly intervenes
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:such that they don't have to fight.
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:In verse 24.
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:It says when Judah came to the Watchtower
of the wilderness, they looked toward
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:the hoard and behold, there were
dead bodies lying on the ground.
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:None had escaped.
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:God effected a great
deliverance on their behalf.
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:And so the people go and take the spoil.
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:It takes days for them to do this.
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:They began to call the valley the valley
of Barakah it's the valley of blessing.
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:That's what that stands for.
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:And as, because that's where God
delivered them and blessed them.
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:So richly, they were richly rewarded for
their faith in Galloway's deliverance.
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:And what a good reminder for us.
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:To trust him, to trust him in such a way
that we pray that we praise that we go to
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:his word, that we remind God of his word.
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:And then when he does inevitably
deliver us in one way, shape or form.
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:We give him the praise that he's due.
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:That's a good reminder for us.
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:We ought to do that.
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:I don't know about what role
praise plays in your life, but
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:I hope it plays a larger role.
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:Than simply a Sunday morning.
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:It's a good thing for us.
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:It's a good thing for your
soul to be shaped and formed.
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:By the words that you hear sung and
the words that you personally sing.
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:But that would be a reminder to you
as you drive to and from the grocery
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:store to, and from the workplace.
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:Put on things that are going to help you.
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:The things that are going to shape you.
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:And things that you want in your
head and your heart, as the old
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:saying goes garbage in, garbage out.
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:Or godliness in godliness out.
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:Be sure that you're feeding a spirit
of praise as you go about your day.
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:Okay.
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:Jehoshaphat's rain ends in second
Chronicles, chapter 20 and all in all.
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:He does a great job.
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:He does make a few blunders and we've
already noticed some of those things, But
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:overall, his reign is commended by God.
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:Second Chronicles chapter 21.
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:Johor him steps in now.
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:He only is covered in chapter
21, but he has a bad rain.
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:He reigns for eight years.
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:But one of the things that you
find initially is that when he
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:ascends the throne and he secure.
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:He takes out all his brothers, all the
rivals to the throne are disposed of.
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:He was 32 years when he was,
when he became king and he
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:reigned for eight years.
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:And this is an evil reign.
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:Now scripture provides a reason
though for his awful rain.
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:And it says this in verse six.
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:He walked in the way of the Kings of
Israel as the house of Ahab had done
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:for the daughter of a Hab was his wife.
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:Remember when we were talking about
Jehoshaphat having a marriage Alliance
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:with Ahab while this is it right here.
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:And the daughter of Ahab
was his wife, Joe Horn.
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:And so now you have the
influence of the Northern kingdom
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:infiltrating the Southern kingdom.
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:And of course this was evil
in the sight of the Lord.
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:Um, he leads exactly as you would expect.
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:He institutes idolatry.
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:He's not doing, he's not doing
what God wants him to do.
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:Well, interestingly enough, Elijah, the
prophet intervenes, he sends a letter.
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:And says, thus says the Lord God, the God
of David, your father, because you've not
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:walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat, your
father or the ways of EISA king of Judah.
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:But I've walked in the way of the Kings
of Israel and of entice Judah and in,
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:and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to.
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:And to idolatry, let's call it that as
the house of Ahab led Israel into that.
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:And also you have killed your brothers of
your father's house who were better than
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:you behold, the Lord will bring a great
plague on your people, your children,
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:your wives, and all your possessions.
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:And so.
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:He ends his reign in a,
in a very unhelpful way.
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:He's got some kind of disease
which ate away at him.
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:As you see here in verse 15 is
have some kind of bowel disease.
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:And the Lord also stirred up
the Philistines against him.
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:Um, and so you have this.
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:You have.
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:Internal issues with his body.
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:You have external issues in the kingdom.
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:And low and behold, one of his sons
Jehovah has, who's also named a Jose.
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:Isaiah.
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:Uh, is the only one left in the kingdom.
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:Now this is important because if
you took out all of his kin, then
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:you would not have a Davidic ruler
ascending the throne, but as it
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:is, God preserved, your Whoah has.
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:Again, it's called And
chapter 22 verse one.
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:Well, as the Lord would have it, he
struggles for two years and he dies
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:from this bowel disease and great agony.
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:It says here, and the people were
glad that he departed because he
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:departed with no one's regret and
they buried him in the city of David,
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:but not in the tomb of the Kings.
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:Remember how important that was?
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:This was a dishonorable death.
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:Second Chronicles chapter 22, then.
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:his son.
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:Who's also called Jehovah
has a few verses earlier.
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:He ascends the throne.
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:And he reigns for one year.
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:So we've got nine, all of
nine verses dedicated to him.
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:Uh, but he walks in the ways
of the house of Ahab and.
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:No notice this scripture provides
a reason for this for his mother,
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:was his counselor in doing wickedly.
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:He did what was evil in
the sight of the Lord.
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:As the house of Ahab had done
for after the death of his
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:father, they were his counsel.
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:There's.
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:To his undoing.
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:And so a has.
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:As I as mom, you remember who she is?
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:Atha Elia.
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:It's going to be important in a
few verses here, but ASI has got
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:evil influences, provoking him
and encouraging him to do evil.
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:And of course works against him.
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:We're going to read more about him when we
get to second Kings, but just notice here,
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:this is not a good situation once more.
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:And he goes to the Northern kingdom
to check on his buddy up there and God
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:decrees through the life or through
the work of Jay who the son of Nimkee.
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:that he would destroy not only
Ahab's house, but also Isaiah.
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:So ASI.
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:N a hub.
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:Our Ahab's house rather are dealt with
through Jay, who will read more about him.
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:And a couple of days when we get to
second Kings again, but just notice.
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:His rain here, bad rain.
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:We're only talking about
the Kings of Judah here.
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:At the Leia.
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:When she realizes that her son is dead.
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:She disposes of everybody in the house of
Judah, belonging to the family of David.
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:Bad news.
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:Once again, the line
of David is threatened.
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:And God's faithfulness and his promises
seem to be a topsy-turvy hear or.
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:God's faithfulness and his promises
seem to be potentially negated by
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:this action, but verse 11, Jehovah.
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:Beathard Yehoshua BIA, depending on
what pronunciation you're looking for.
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:The end of Joe Ash.
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:Finds this young man, he's probably
about a year old at this point.
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:Finds him.
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:And then hides him with
the help of her husband.
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:Jehoiada the priest.
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:And so AF Elia.
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:Uh, sends the throne illegitimately,
but she's ascending the throne.
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:Not at not a Davidic king.
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:She's dealing with thrown at this point.
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:And then her sister-in-law , Joe
hotshot, beef hides, Joe Ash,
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:the true heir to the throne.
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:For about seven years.
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:Second Chronicles 23.
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:In the seventh year, Jehovah to the
priest takes courage and he begins to
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:tell people what he has in store here.
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:And he's got one of the Davidic rulers.
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:He's been hiding him.
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:And now he's saying, look, we need
to come together and we're going to
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:make a covenant together and we're
going to bring this guy to the throne.
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:And so he does that.
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:He brings in leaders and Levi's, he
brings all sorts of heads of households.
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:And then he tells him
what they're going to do.
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:And they all agreed.
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:This is the right plan.
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:We're going to put Joe Ash on the throne.
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:And they proclaim him king and
Jehovah and his sons anointed him
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:and they said long live the king
will, of course, atha ly hears this.
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:She's not happy about this.
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:And she cries treason.
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:Interesting because she didn't
see it as treasonous when she
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:killed everybody else who.
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:It was a potential rival to the throne.
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:And then Jehovah and the priest
and all the captains, they gather
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:her and they don't put her to
death in the house of the Lord.
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:They take her to a different spot.
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:They kill her there.
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:They install Joe Ash as king.
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:And Joe Hoya takes the leader.
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:Cause remember Joe Ash he's
a young man at this point.
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:He was seven years old when he
began to reign, according to
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:second Chronicles, chapter 24.
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:So he's a very young man.
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:It was about a year old give or
take when he was initially hidden.
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:And so Jehovah is kind of
functioning as the Kings.
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:Greatest counselor, the Kings protector,
that Kings adviser, and perhaps
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:much more as he was a young man.
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:And so he makes a covenant between
the king and the people that they're
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:going to be, the Lord's people.
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:And they took out some of the idolaters,
including Matan the priest of bail.
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:Uh, and he installs Watchmen and he's
just putting everything in place.
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:He's setting things up well, And
under his leadership under his
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:influence, Joe Ash does really well.
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:But that's a cliffhanger for you.
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:Cause that's not always the case.
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:Well, as second Chronicles, 23 ends,
it says all the people of the land
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:rejoiced and the city was quiet after
It had been put to death with the sword.
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:People were joyous when there's righteous
leaders and people lament and moan.
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:When there's unrighteous leaders.
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:Did you happen to watch a debate?
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:A couple of nights ago.
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:I hope he did, or at least
I hope you saw some recaps.
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:If there's not something that
hasn't already encouraged
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:you to pray for your leaders.
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:I don't know what
else it's going to take.
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:Scripture commands you to do this.
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:That's probably a helpful thing, but
you should feel a burden to pray for
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:our nation to pray for our people.
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:Clearly.
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:We need all the help we can get, hopefully
watching some of these Kings rise and
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:fall of the mistakes that they've made,
the good things that they did encourages
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:you to pray mightily for the people that
God installs in leadership positions.
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:I hope you do that today.
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:Tomorrow.
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:Hope you.
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:You find some encouragement at
church to do the same thing.
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:But that's all I got for today.
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:Thank you guys so much for joining me.
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:I hope you have a great day at
church and I look forward to
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:seeing you tomorrow for another
edition of the daily Bible podcast.