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🗓️ 2 May 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.1 | We officially passed the one third mark in our reading plan today. |
0:16.8 | Congratulations! |
0:18.8 | Every year when I get to this day in the reading plan, it makes me laugh. |
0:21.9 | I don't know why the people who put the plan together did it this way, but some of you |
0:25.1 | are glad because it gives you a chance to catch up if you're behind. |
0:28.9 | Even though it's short, there's a lot more to Psalm 133 than meets the eye. |
0:32.9 | First, this is one of the songs of Ascent. |
0:35.7 | So this would be a song the Israelites sing as they travel on foot from wherever their |
0:39.6 | tribal allotment happens to be, all the way to Jerusalem three times a year. |
0:44.8 | These are all hopeful, triumphant praise songs, but they each have a bit of a different |
0:48.9 | angle on what they're praising God for. |
0:51.4 | So what were they singing about this time? |
0:54.2 | Here's a little bit of a background on where this song likely came from. |
0:58.2 | Do you remember back in Genesis 13 when Abram and Lot had to part ways because the land |
1:02.4 | wouldn't support them both? |
1:04.6 | This happened again in Genesis 36 with Jacob and Esau. |
1:08.4 | They had made up after years of fighting and being estranged from one another, but they |
1:12.5 | had so many family members in such large flocks that the amount of land required to feed |
1:16.9 | everyone was too much, so they had to separate. |
1:19.9 | In both instances, the phrase used is the same one used here to say dwell in unity. |
1:26.4 | When David says how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity, it's not just |
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