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Chad big day starting well new book kind of it's a it's in the Bible is a new book it is the second book of kings or the second

half of kings is probably more appropriate way to say it and it's gonna pick up

right where the other one left off this isn't like you know, when you're reading a series and a book ends and then you pick up another book and it starts, you know, by painting some scene and you're waiting for maybe some familiar characters to show up.

This is just right back into it.

This reads like just the next chapter.

Yeah, yeah, I just like they got to the end of riding First Kings and they were like man this scroll is getting long

We're only like halfway I tell you what let's just stop it here grab another scroll and we'll start riding on it.

And I mean that it's actually not a caricature.

That's pretty much probably what happened.

You know, back then then these were practical concerns. These

scrolls were big and so once it got to a certain length then you're either going to be

dealing with a huge scroll or you just grab another one. I'm pretty sure that's why Luke and

acts are two different volumes because if you try to put it on one scroll it

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