KINGS: National divorce (feat Trey Ferguson)

Vacation Bible School Podcast

Jason Kirk, Emily Kirk

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The Book of (First) Kings, chapters 11-16, a part of the Bible that's gonna sound like we chose it specifically because it was recorded in April 2025.

But first, did you know the names of comically large wine bottle sizes are all named after Bible guys?
Meet the rebel who might've been a big inspiration for the Moses story set centuries prior.
Emily's as annoyed by Solomon as she has been by just about any character so far.
Does a failson take the throne and immediately start yelling at an angry mob about his own penis? This is a Bible story, so you already know the answer.
The Bible's oldest archeologically confirmed newspaper headline.

Welcome Trey Ferguson, a pastor based in the Miami area who's also an author, podcaster, and tremendous poster. You're gonna like him a lot! Find all of his work via https://www.pastortrey05.com.

"Not Like Us" harp cover by Arianna Worthen.

Stay in touch! We also have a Patreon currently on hiatus) with lots of bonus episodes stored up, and most of our posting currently happens on Bluesky, though we have accounts elsewhere too.

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0:00.0	Let's go Rhinxon, exodus, neviticus numbers.
0:18.8	Do you know run to meet?
0:20.4	One. Dayeronomy. Do't want to meet. One.
0:21.8	Dayeronomy.
0:23.6	Do you don't want to meet.
0:24.0	One.
0:25.0	Dayeronomy.
0:26.6	Do you know. And welcome back to the Vacation Bible School podcast.
0:29.3	My name is Jason Kirk.
0:30.4	And I am joined by Emily Kirk.
0:33.7	Folks, we are here again today to tell you some things about the Bible that we have learned.
0:40.2	Things that in a lot of our previous episodes, we have talked about stories that, you know,
0:46.7	everyone knows at least a little bit of, but this time around we are talking about a part of the Bible,
0:51.9	the middle of, call it the book of First Kings,
0:55.8	that is extremely relevant to really every period of human history.
1:03.5	But good gosh, we're recording this in April 2025 in the United States of America.
1:08.2	And it is feeling extremely relevant, even though it's not a story that we spend much time on
1:14.2	in Sunday school.
1:15.5	Before we get into that, hey, Emily.
1:19.6	Hi.
1:20.1	Do you know how many milliliters are in a standard bottle of wine?
1:23.2	I don't even know how many glasses you get out of a standard bottle of wine.
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