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Chad we're in first King's chapter 15 we were just we ended last week with a be

introduced to a guy named

asa

and uh... he is uh... sort of comes from his lineage a little weird

uh... we learned it's a little weird so his mother and his grandmother are same person so that's a little

different and God says aha this is exactly the type of dude that I think I could

use just like God to do that for sure. Yeah, this is a sixth I guess king that we have in the south so he begins to reign over Judah when

durable mistle king in the in the north and we're told that his mother's name was Maakah

the daughter of Avisholom of course it's the same woman who is also his his grandmother

We're kind of picking up here with

first king's 1511 and we're going to find out more about what he did and

some of the some of the ways that he used political maneuvering to his advantage and then the downside of that in these next few verses.

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