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We ended in Isaiah chapter 36.

We're getting a little historical background, but, you know, it's not super boring, at least.

So you're getting some lofty speeches.

You're getting some intimidating talk in this historical background.

So it's not just names and dates, but you're getting some rhetoric as well.

And we ended with, you know, one of the great passages of all scripture, where we have some guy tell the people of Israel,

hey, the Lord told me to go and destroy you guys, and I want you to hear that because the

options are full surrender or eat your own dung, drink your own urine. And that is how we

ended up the last episode.

Nothing boring about the Bible, right?

Got some scatological rhetoric going on here, quite the threat.

Yeah, so the guy who said that is the Assyrian representative.

He's the mouthpiece of Sinakurib, who is the Assyrian king at the time.

He took the throne, and he had some problems to deal with back home with some of those rebellious Babylonian guys.

This is before the rise of Babylon.

That's going to come later.

So he had to put down some of their stuff going on.

And then he moved to the west. And one of the kings that he wanted to deal with is our

friend Hezekiah who is now sitting trapped in Jerusalem with the Assyrian army around them

and we have this guy named whose title is the Rob Shaka or how do you want to say it anyway

it's a it's a title he's the he's the mouthpiece he's the guy who talks Robshika, Rob Shaka, or how do you want to say it, anyway.

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