Hello.

Yeah, so I'm going to stick to my promise of several years ago.

I just not keep addressing the fact that I'm missing every single episode because, you know, people listen to this right in a row.

So anyway, let's just get right into it.

We're on chapter seven of Samuel of First Samuel,

which is really inconvenient to type into the episode names, you know, one Samuel 7 and all that.

Kind of messed up my process. Um, I don't really remember what's happening. No, Samuel's the leader now.

He's judging people.

Judge Samuel.

Pretty cool.

Pretty cool reading today.

Here we go.

And the men of Kyrjath Jirim came and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abedadab in the

hill and sanctified Elie Azar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.

And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kyrgyath Jirim, that the time was long, for it was

20 years, and all the House of Israel lamented after the Lord.

And Samuel spoke unto all the House of Israel, saying,

If you do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods

and Ash Taroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve him only,

and he will deliver you out of the hand of the

Philistines. Then the children of Israel did put away Baleem and Ashtaroth and served the Lord only.

And Samuel said, gather all Israel to Mizpe, and I will pray for you unto the Lord. And they gathered

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