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haven't just perused the website I'd encourage you to go over there and do so. We are in First Kings. We are in Chapter 2.

We said goodbye to David in the last episode, so David is officially laid with his fathers, as the book tells us and now we're going to

transition into the reign of Solomon and and see how Solomon does with carrying out a few of the things that his father told him to do and just

how he's going to be different than his father. Solomon is definitely not David 2.0.

No, and it's quite the beginning too.

I don't give, whoa, what we got coming up here in 213 and following is like one, two, three,

four different guys that he deals with and

it's not pretty well and it's an ugly start to his reign and the first little

bit of his reign he does a little bit seem like David 2.0 because some of

this stuff is like that sounds like something David would do. Yeah but it does it does and but

and he's not exactly but closely carrying out the instructions that his dad gave him on his deathbed.

You know, David was like, deal with this guy and deal with this guy.

And then you know, you're smart, you know how to deal with this guy too.

So David dies and Solomon, we don't know how quickly Solomon carried out some of his father's

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