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 Chronicles.

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Hey, my friends, it's Matt,

and today I think we got a pretty easy one,

the second Chronicles, but it's only gonna make sense

if you listen to the one on first Chronicles

from yesterday, because these are one book

and they absolutely fit together lock and key.

First Chronicles takes us all the way up

from like the very beginning of stuff

that happens in the Old Testament,

all the way up to the end of David's reign.

And it reframes a pretty ugly story

in a very positive, hopeful light,

indicating that somehow through this twisted up weird family

that has been picked, that's been created out of Abraham,

and somehow through this at times compromised

and difficult line of kings that has come out of David

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