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Speaker 1: Well howdy, and good morning, friends and faithful listeners, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Bible Explain podcast on this lovely Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: I am so glad that you're here, starting out your

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Speaker 1: week nice and strong by sharing a delicious cup of

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Speaker 1: coffee with me as we read First Chronicles, chapter twenty.

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Speaker 1: So I hope that you guys have had a wonderful

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Speaker 1: week so far. I don't know if I told you, guys,

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Speaker 1: but I was out in my garden and I had

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Speaker 1: a bunch of nice tomatoes coming in, and the deer

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Speaker 1: came and just destroyed it. Okay, so I have no

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Speaker 1: tomatoes in my garden, and I think that happened last

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Speaker 1: year too. If I'm remembering correctly, I think the deer

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Speaker 1: also ate my tomatoes last year. So I got to

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Speaker 1: figure something out here, because you know, I like deer

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Speaker 1: well enough, but they have a huge forest behind me.

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Speaker 1: I live in the middle of the sticks, Okay, trees everywhere.

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Speaker 1: They have an abundance of food. They don't need to

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Speaker 1: come up to my garden and eat my tomatoes. They

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Speaker 1: just don't need to do it. So I got to

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Speaker 1: figure out something as to how I can get those

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Speaker 1: deer out of my garden. But I hope that your

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Speaker 1: gardening is going much better for you this year than

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Speaker 1: it is for me. This is truly the worst year

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Speaker 1: I have ever had for gardening. I don't know what's

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Speaker 1: going on. Let's go ahead and read First Chronicles twenty

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Speaker 1: the entire thing. This is a really short chapter. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I think it's the shortest chapter in First Chronicles. It's

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Speaker 1: only eight versus long. But we have a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about because we're going to be discussing David cheating

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Speaker 1: with Bathsheba, and we'll also talk about some of the

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Speaker 1: various wars that David gets into as well. So I'll

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Speaker 1: be reading this as I usually do, from the web version,

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Speaker 1: go ahead and read first Chronicles twenty, this entire short

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Speaker 1: little chapter. At the time of the return of the year,

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Speaker 1: at the time when kings go out, Joeab let out

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Speaker 1: the army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon,

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Speaker 1: and came and besieged Raba, But David stayed at Jerusalem.

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Speaker 1: Joe Ab struck Raba and overthrew it, took the crown

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Speaker 1: of their king from off his head, and found it

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Speaker 1: to weigh a talent of gold, and there are precious

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Speaker 1: After this war arose out of Gazer with the Philistines.

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Speaker 1: at Gath, where there was a man of great stature

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Speaker 1: In the last chapter, this war between Ammin and Israel

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Speaker 1: And then the Ammonites even pushed David further by hiring

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Speaker 1: say that Joab successfully besieged Raba, which was a city

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Speaker 1: situation between David and Bathsheba and Uriah. Not to say

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Speaker 1: that Uriah should have died, because Uriah was innocent as well,

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Speaker 1: but David's sin. David's actions caused many innocent people to die.

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Speaker 1: So all that takes place in First Chronicles, chapter twenty.

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Speaker 1: And he might wonder why the chronicler doesn't actually talk

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Speaker 1: funny how it's coming back up in scripture once again.

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Speaker 1: But David was not silent about his sin, neither was

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