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So we are covering week 26, First Kings 1 through 11.

Yeah, we're going to focus on the rise and fall of King Solomon.

Yeah, let's start with our three key questions here.

Oh, good.

How does this bring me closer to Christ?

How does the Book of Mormon help me understand the Old Testament? And how does this help me live a more

Christ-like life? And you know, we can learn from bad examples as well as good examples here. And it's

just tragic to see a good person who leaves the faith. And unfortunately, King Solomon fits the pattern of, that probably many of us

have seen in our own sphere of those who have lost faith because of either sin or doubt or a lack

of faith or a friend leading them astray. Yeah. So last week was very eventful, right? We cover

Saul and David's rise and fall. and now we're on to Solomon.

And now we're starting with First Kings. And again, First and Second Books of Kings was one long

book, and they divided it because of the length of the scrolls. But it continues the storyline

right after First and Second Samuel. And it has a lot of similarities to first and second

Chronicles. Most biblical scholars think that Chronicles was edited after the fact and added in

a little more perspective and changed a few things and made a little more rose colored. But it's

always good to read the stories in both places. But I think for our podcast today, why don't we just stick with the text of kings?

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