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We're in Second Chronicles 13 through 15.

We spent a lot of time talking about David and then Solomon.

And it seems like someone has pressed the fast forward button.

Like I'm thinking about the VCR that I grew up with in the fast forward button here

because we're starting to go through Kings more rapidly, it seems, Scott. Good, good picture, Shelby. I love that. You and I are from the VCR age, so we can relate. Oh, yes. Good old DHS tapes. Yeah, things pick up really, really fast. Yesterday, we looked at the first King post-Solom, which is Rayobam. Today we're going to get to two kings. So we got

Abijah first and then Asa right after him and Sartreth Abijah. So like the study pointed

this out, but the book of kings saw him overall as a failure. And Chronicles doesn't contradict

that, but instead it does choose to focus on a particular moment of his reign where he did something

really, really right. And it's this battle we get to in chapter 13 against the northern

kingdom of Israel. And I love the scene because it actually reminds me of David and Goliath a

little bit, because Abid just facing this huge threat. But then he declares to them, basically,

hey, God is with them. And so even when the northern

king, that's Jeroboam at the time, he ambushes them from behind. We read that Abijah's army

cries out to the Lord, and then God routes Jeroboam. And I love verse 18's commentary that they

succeeded because they depended on the Lord.

And then, man, Abijah's speech is so fantastic because it reinforces something we see throughout Chronicles

that the kingdom belongs to David and its descendants

and that worship can only happen in Jerusalem

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