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

Kings of Judah and Israel - 1

Kings of Judah and Israel - 2

Kings of Judah and Israel - 3

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

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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.