Welcome to the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Second Kings.

Hey, my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast, and we're looking

at Second Kings this time around, which isn't even really the sequel to First Kings.

It's just all kings.

It's one thing.

There is no sequel here.

So when you read the end of First Kings, and then you turn the page over to the beginning

of Second Kings, it just keeps rolling.

You would never know if you just put it all together with text because it is one book

divided after the fact.

Now, like we talked about last time, this isn't just a history book.

This is a history book with a very clear purpose, and that purpose, as it is being written

from somewhere in the middle of the 500s B.C., probably from Persia, is to address the

remnant, the people who were taken away into captivity, the Israelite people, the Jewish

people, and to hold a light up to all of the history of what went wrong, to remind whoever

was reading this in the 500s B.C. of how we got here.

Why are we Persian captives again?

Why don't we just continue to live where our ancestors lived, and worship where our ancestors

worshiped?

How did this go so badly off the rails when we get our answers in First and Second Kings,

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