I think that these stories are designed by the author of Kings to remind Israel about their past in order to give them hope for the future.

So he's teaching Israel about their past in order to teach them how to respond in the present and to give them hope for the future.

And I think the sequence of this account of this woman looks something like a new Exodus.

She goes into a foreign land.

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My name is Alex Duke, by the way, and with me are my two friends.

Sam Lottie, Jim Hamilton. All right, so guys, by the way, and with me are my two friends. Sam Ladi, Jim

Hamilton. All right, so guys, last week we talked about Second Kings chapters six and seven. We

talked about among many things, floating axe heads and angel armies. We talked about the siege

on Syria. Sounds like a song lyric.

Does it? That'd be a song lyric. Does it?

That'd be a strange song.

Or an album title.

There you go.

This week we're going to get through two more chapters.

Okay, now, right before we started recording, you know, one of us was already getting

a little cranky.

Like, hold on, if we break in the middle of chapter 9, we're only going to be halfway

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