You know, the beginning of Israel's history is Exodus from Egypt, Mount Sinai, and then, of course, you have the story of the golden calf and Moses has to intercede for them.

Well, nobody's going to be interceding for them here, right? So that's a contrast we need to note.

But it's also the case that Israel should have grown beyond this, right? This is hundreds of years since the

account of what happened at Sinai with the Golden Caves and with Aaron. Israel...

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Okay, so guys, last week we talked about how this nation of Israel has been divided. It was at the cusp of civil war, at least for the moment, that civil war has not occurred. But Jeroboam has taken

all the tribes to the north in Israel and Rehoboam has sort of, you know, a little bit

with his tail between his legs, gone back to Jerusalem and kept the tribe of Judah and tribe

of Benjamin, right? That's right. To himself. So again, Rehoboam in Jerusalem, Jeroboam in

the north in Israel. In what city, Shekham?

He's originally in Shechem.

I think the first capital city is Tears up, but then it becomes Shekham later.

Wow.

You didn't... No, no, no, it becomes Samaria later.

Ladies and gentlemen, he just... I was off the top of the dome.

Okay. So, we're going to do the latter bit of First Kings 12 and then all of First Kings 13 today.

And this chapter is a doozy. There's just a lot going on. It's awesome.

It's frankly, it's bloody. It's blasphemous. It's, you know, there's some lions. There's,

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