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🗓️ 27 November 2025

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How does the book of Kings end? What hope do we have? Does your life feel imprisoned? In today's episode, Patrick shares how 2 Kings 25:22-30 points us forward to Jesus, the one who came to set his people free. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Kings 25:22-30

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:08.9	In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Patrick Miller. Today we come to the conclusion of
0:14.6	Second Kings, which means it's the conclusion of the entire set of First and Second Kings.
0:19.7	You might not realize this, but they were not
0:21.4	originally two separate books. It was actually, well, originally it was one big scroll. And that scroll
0:27.3	told the story from the time of Solomon's reign. Remember, Solomon was the son of King David,
0:32.5	all the way to the time of Zedekiah's reign. And Zetakaya was the last king from David's line to sit on the throne
0:39.3	of Jerusalem until the Babylonians showed up and burned the entire city down. Now, after going through
0:44.9	First and Second Kings, you're probably used to the pattern. Things get worse and worse and worse.
0:50.5	For brief moments, light flashes out. There's Hezekiah and Josiah, but it's just like light shining off of shaken foil.
0:58.1	It's there for a moment, and then it's gone. But on the whole, you know how the story goes.
1:04.0	The kings disobey God. They give into idolatry, the people go astray, and then disaster follows.
1:10.2	The ultimate disaster was the fulfillment of the
1:12.7	covenant curses laid out in the book of Deuteronomy by God to Moses before the people entered the land.
1:18.9	And in those passages, God warned his people that if they turned from him, he'd give them over to the
1:24.7	gods that they worshipped. He said, look, if you want to bow down to the gods of
1:28.3	Babylon, then to Babylon you go. The king of Babylon, his name was Nebuchadnezzar, and he became the
1:34.6	instrument of God's justice against the people who were disobeying him for hundreds and hundreds of years.
1:41.5	Nebuchadnezzar invaded Judah three different times, and he took three successive waves of
1:46.1	exiles to Babylon, and each time he took the cream of the crop from Judah. On his very last visit,
1:52.4	he was so angry that he burned the temple down, he burned the palace down, he burned the city down.
1:58.3	His warriors pillaged, they raped, they imprisoned the Israelites. It was awful.
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