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Chad we're we're starting a new book, but this one feels different than any other new book that we've started you know we've moved from

you know Genesis to Exodus and Exodus to Leviticus and we've done all of this sort of thing and some of those books

it's kind of seemed like you know they're continuing of the story and stuff

but none of them like this where it's literally a book where you're you're getting the

sequel to it it's so connected to the prior book that they just

have to give it the same name. Yeah, we're beginning a new book but it's a little anticlimactic.

It really, it just kind of feels like you're turning the page to the next chapter.

So, but I mean there I will say this that I mean there are this is a this is a definite point where you would want to divide the books

put it that way for for numerous reasons for the first reason of course the most obvious

reason as we talked about in the last

episode is that Saul has just died and first Samuel as we've discussed many

times was not so much about Samuel as it was about Saul and David.

So we have, this is a transition chapter.

We're officially leaving Saul behind.

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