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Chad, we are coming up on where we have to say goodbye to Gera Boam. We're starting out with a death here.

Is, I don't know if it's a good, good buy or good riddets.

One of the two, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, good old Gerboam. Yeah, he, we, we, we, we heard about the death of his son in the last episode. So we are like right at the threshold of his

threshold of his demise.

First Kings 14, 19 is one of these summary statements

that we are going to encounter a whole lot

in these books.

It reads this way.

Now the rest of the acts of Geroboum, how he ward and how he reined, behold they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. At the time that Jerribolm reigned was 22 years and he slept with his fathers and Nadab, his son, reined in his place.

So that wrapped him up and he is no insignificant character of course because he basically establishes the wide road that

leads to the northern kingdom's destruction and down that wide road every single one of his following kings are going to are going to walk.

I mean there's there are of course plenty of northern kings that are used by God for his own purposes,

but none of them are said to, for instance, walk in the way of David

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