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Good to have you back again. This week we are looking at Psalm 136 as we

focus on God's steadfast love and mercy. So each day we're looking at a different section of the

Psalm. Today we're transitioning from the focus on God's provision and God providing liberation

to God providing inheritance. And we'll do that by looking at verses 17 through 22.

I'll read them here. To him who struck down great kings for his steadfast love endorsed forever

and killed mighty kings for his steadfast love endures forever. Sahan king of the Amarites for his

steadfast love endures forever and Og king of Bashan for his steadfast love endures forever, an Og king of Bashan for his steadfast love

endures forever, and gave their land as a heritage for his steadfast love endures forever,

a heritage to Israel, his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Now, when you think about the great kings and rulers in history, I'm pretty sure that

Sahan King of the Amirites and Og king of Bacian or Bashin or however you say that would not have been on your list, right? That's not something that you've heard a whole lot of people talk about. You likely thought of people like, you know, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Richard the Lionheart, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Henry the 8th, I mean, so on and so forth, you can think of so, so many more.

And even thinking in a biblical lens, you'd probably think about King David or King Solomon,

but regardless of their modern day name recognition or lack thereof, in their days, Sahan and Og were very powerful and formidable men. And one thing that we can guarantee is that all these men, and you can, of course,

name a bunch more men like this from history, but all of these men were able to strike fear

in the hearts of their enemies. So many of these men individually were formidable warriors,

you know, in a one-on-one sense. They commanded large, intimidating militaries. They took over huge swaths of land

and some of them, you know, entire continents. They killed thousands, if not millions of people.

Many indiscriminately murdered civilians, many ruthlessly enslaved those that they did not wish to

kill. And Sahan and Og also had in common that they opposed the people of God and God had them both

delivered into the hands of Israel. So you can read more about Sahan's fall in Numbers 21, but I do

want to draw your attention to something subtle but awesome that we see in Numbers 21 in reference

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