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🗓️ 22 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Two days ago in our reading, Solomon died in his son Ray Haboam, or Ray, as we're calling |
0:18.1 | him, took over the throne. Today we launch into the reign of the new King Ray, |
0:22.7 | we've got a lot of important stuff to cover today, |
0:25.0 | and it's a big day in Israel's history. |
0:26.9 | So if you're listening at a speed faster than 1X, |
0:29.8 | you may want to slow me down, |
0:31.6 | and you may even want to listen twice to make sure you catch it all. |
0:35.4 | As soon as Solomon died and his son King Ray took the throne, Gerboam or Jerry, as we're calling him, |
0:42.1 | came back from hiding in Egypt. |
0:44.1 | He fled there because Solomon was trying to kill him, because he had received a prophecy |
0:47.8 | that he would be king over 10 of the tribes. |
0:50.5 | So Jerry has come back to Israel to see the fulfillment of this prophecy. |
0:54.0 | Then Jerry gathers a bunch of people to approach King Ray about a problem that had been developing over the last few years, which was, |
1:02.0 | Solomon had been so involved in his construction projects |
1:05.0 | that had started to treat his workers like slaves. |
1:08.0 | The people know it isn't right and they asked King Ray to lighten their load a bit. King Ray confers with some of his |
1:15.8 | counselors and they say the people are right. But he doesn't like their advice, so he asks his |
1:20.3 | buddies for a second opinion. But these guys grew up in the palace with him |
1:24.0 | and they have no idea what it's like to be a regular person who has to do manual labor. |
1:29.0 | They aren't compassionate and they have no experiential wisdom and leadership. They suggest that he |
1:34.8 | increased the people's workload. King Ray does what his buddies suggest and the |
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