Today is the 26th day of July. Welcome. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Welcome back to the Global Campfire. I'm Brian. It is awesome. Awesome to be here with you today. Grateful to be here with you today as we bring another one of our weeks in for a landing,

a safe landing.

52 times we get to do this.

And man, I have to count it up, but we're past the halfway point obviously so we are

well underway on our journey way out in the deep as we sail together through the year and through the

bible i am so grateful for this opportunity to be together again.

So let's do what we always do.

The reason we are here to take another step forward on that journey.

We are working our way through Second Chronicles at this point, and the book of Romans.

Second Chronicles chapter is 17 and 18 today. Jehovah

Jehovah succeeded his father Asa as king and strengthened his position against Israel.

He stationed troops in the fortified cities of Judah, in the Judean countryside, and in the

cities which Asa had captured in the territory of Ephraim.

The Lord blessed Jehoshavat because he followed the example of his father's early life and

did not worship Bail.

He served his father's God, obeyed God's commands, and did not act the way

the kings of Israel did. The Lord gave Jehoshaphat firm control over the kingdom of Judah

and all the people brought him gifts so that he became wealthy and highly honored.

He took pride in serving the Lord

and destroyed all the pagan places of worship

and the symbols of the goddess Ashura and Judah.

In the third year of his reign,

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