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🗓️ 8 July 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. |
0:13.2 | If you didn't have the chance to look this up, it might have been a bit confusing to you, |
0:17.0 | but today we have another nickname tag situation happening with King Azaraya of Judah. |
0:22.0 | He also goes by the name Uzaya. |
0:25.0 | When we read about him in second Kings, he's Azaraya, but when we read about him in second |
0:28.8 | Chronicles, he's Uzaya. |
0:30.8 | He's just taken over after his father's death and we don't hear much about him except |
0:34.5 | that he's a pretty good king. |
0:36.1 | High places notwithstanding because they're still standing, but then things take a turn. |
0:41.9 | After his people maybe invent the catapult and a series of military victories making |
0:46.0 | rich and famous, Azaraya grows prideful. |
0:49.4 | He decides he wants to burn incense in the temple in Jerusalem, which is a big no-no unless |
0:55.5 | you're a priest. |
0:57.1 | When the text describes this by saying, he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, it uses |
1:02.0 | the same word that is often used for marital unfaithfulness. |
1:05.6 | The actual priests are a guest and 81 of them, including one who shares the name Azaraya, |
1:11.8 | rush into rebuke him, but he's unrepentant. |
1:15.2 | And when he grows angry with the priests, God strikes him with leprosy. |
1:19.8 | What's interesting to me about this text is that it seems to indicate he never actually |
1:23.9 | lights the censor to burn the incense. |
1:26.2 | They stop him before he can. |
1:28.4 | And if that's true, then even though he doesn't physically commit the sin here, his heart |
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