There's a, before we, before we move on, we need to talk about just what a strange opening

this is to the book.

I mean, this is a book that's going to lead us into the heights of Israel's monarchy.

We're going to see David.

We're going to see the birth of Solomon, the Davidic covenant, all of this grandiose stuff.

I mean, really the high point of the Old Testament for Israel, and it starts

with a family that's not even related to David. A certain man of Ramatha, Zofi.

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My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends Samavati.

Jim Hamilton.

All right, so I just want to start here, and I just confess, I'm sorry to interrupt the listener's deep slumber,

because I'm sure that they were listening to the

previous episode about canonical order and fell asleep.

And went right to sleep.

And so, you know, maybe here we are.

It's another episode.

Maybe the music jarred you awake.

I'm sorry to wake you from your deep slumber.

But we are back with a traditional episode of Bible talk.

We're not going to Ruth, as we explained, as Jim Abley and Sam Abley.

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