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Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Second Chronicles 24 through 27 and I am back in the podcast

studio with Chris Sherrod.

Hello.

Chris, thank you for joining us.

Of course.

You were on the first episode of the year.

Yeah, it's gone by fast.

Now we're wrapping up Second Chronicles and we've got four kings to talk about.

Yep.

Let's start with Joash.

Okay, yeah.

What I love, I think that's really helpful, even as we jump into Joash, is the way that First and Second Chronicles help us out along the way by giving like a summary statement of each king at the very beginning.

So almost all of them will say so-and-so became king of either, you know, Jude or Israel, when he was blank a lot of times.

Which, Joash is seven? Yeah, when he was blank a lot of times. Which Jewish is seven?

Yeah, pretty young.

Kind of crazy?

Yeah, it'll say a little bit about his family.

But then it gives this, and he did what was blank in the eyes of the Lord, almost every time.

And so what's helpful is you get kind of like a report card grade for each of those kings, like right off the bat. So it kind of let you know,

as you're about to read this, just know, here's the overall summary of him. And then sometimes

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