Today is the 10th day of July.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian.

Grateful to be here with you for another day.

Another step forward.

Some more time in this safe oasis called the global campfire that we gather around every day.

Together to take this step forward in community, showing up for each other, showing up for ourselves,

and letting the scriptures have their way with our hearts as we do

the difficult work of transformation because it's it can be profoundly difficult to surrender and to change or to repent.

And so day after day, step by step, we allow the scriptures to seep deep into our hearts

and challenge those changes.

So let's take the next step forward.

We're working into and through First Chronicles

as we navigate the Old Testament,

and we have been reading the famous genealogy portion of the scriptures.

We're kind of at the end of that.

And moving out of it into some of the narrative territory that will be familiar because it's similar ground to what we covered in the books

of Samuel and Kings.

It just comes from a later time.

I'll look back at those times from the time of exile, from the time where ancient Israel, as we knew it, ceased to exist.

All of the tribes were carried away into two different empires.

The ten northern tribes were carried away and assimilated into the Assyrian

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