Have You Forgotten the Main Thing? | Historical Books | 2 Kings 17:24-41

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

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Have you forgotten the main thing? Do you worship God exclusively? What are your idols? In today's episode, Tanya shares how 2 Kings 17:24-41 encourages us to worship Jesus alone. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Kings 17:24-41

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Tanya Wilmuth.
0:13.0	In the summer of 2025, Cracker Barrel, the Southern Country Store, known for rocking chairs, biscuits, and road trip nostalgia,
0:22.6	unveiled a new logo. Cracker Rail kept the same font. They kept the colors. They kept the name,
0:29.1	but they left out one thing, the barrel. People noticed, and so did the stock market. The company
0:36.7	lost $100 million in a single day and over $103 million
0:41.2	at the time I checked on this. The CEO said afterwards that before the launch, all the
0:47.7	internal feedback had been great, so nobody expected such a negative reaction. Which makes me wonder,
0:56.2	what conversations were they having that led to removing the very thing the brand is known for? Like the main thing? Did someone think
1:02.6	that that barrel was outdated, that it was irrelevant, not worth keeping? On one hand,
1:09.0	here we are still talking about Cargo Burrell, so, you know, as it goes,
1:12.1	all publicity is good PR, right? But we still know that Cracker Barrel went through something
1:16.6	really challenging because they forgot the main thing. In Second King 17, we meet a group of people
1:23.7	who are living without the main thing. Now, they're living in Israel's former northern kingdom.
1:29.6	That's is a place that the Israelites had already been exiled from for their rebellion against God.
1:34.2	And now these new settlers are there. They've been brought in by the Assyrians. First, they didn't
1:39.8	worship God at all. But after attacks from lions, they assumed the God of the land was angry with
1:45.9	them. So the king of Assyria sent an exiled Israelite priest to teach them how to worship the Lord.
1:52.2	And they did learn. They did learn to worship God. But here's the issue. They worship the Lord,
1:59.3	it says, in 2nd Kings, Chapter 17, verse 33. But they also
2:05.3	served their own gods. They didn't reject Yahweh. They simply added him to their list of other
2:12.2	deities, other things that they loved. They believed in God, but not exclusively. They worshipped God,
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