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🗓️ 23 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 | Today we covered a lot of the same territory as yesterday, but Chronicles did provide us a few new details, so I'm going to focus mainly on those. |
0:21.0 | During the time of the divided kingdom, the ten tribes of the Northern |
0:24.1 | Kingdom reject the Levites as priests. So not only do the Levites get fired |
0:28.5 | from their jobs, but they're also evicted from their homes. So all the Levites leave the tribal lands |
0:34.3 | had been appointed to serve and they moved to Judah in the Southern kingdom. These |
0:38.1 | priests have served under the relatively good leadership of David and Solomon and that |
0:42.0 | sticks with them for a while. |
0:43.8 | They have set their hearts to seek God, and for three years they help keep the Southern |
0:48.3 | Kingdom on the straight and narrow, but it eventually starts to fall apart as we saw yesterday. |
0:53.2 | It's unclear whether the hearts of the Levites |
0:55.4 | also turn away from God, |
0:57.2 | or whether King Ray just stops caring |
0:58.9 | and disregards God's laws and purposes for the Levites. |
1:02.3 | King Ray has a lot of wives and concubines, |
1:05.0 | and as his family grows, he distributes his sons throughout the regions, |
1:09.0 | making sure to provide for them and find them wives. |
1:12.0 | They seem to serve sort of like governors in the region, helping to make |
1:14.7 | sure his power and influence take root in every part of the Southern Kingdom. But as his power |
1:19.7 | grows, his heart turns away from God. |
1:23.0 | Weakness has a way of reminding us of our needs, |
1:26.0 | whereas strength has a way of prompting us to lean into autonomy and foolish forgetfulness. |
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