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Speaker 1: Good morning, faithful listeners, Welcome to the Bible Explained podcast

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Speaker 1: on this lovely Monday morning. So guess what Today is

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Speaker 1: the last episode of season nine. It seemed like last

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Speaker 1: week I was still only halfway through First Chronicles, and

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Speaker 1: I did not think that season nine was gonna come

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Speaker 1: up as quickly as it did. But then we had

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Speaker 1: a couple of days where we read like three chapters

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Speaker 1: every day, and then suddenly Chronicles was just over. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna finish up First Chronicles twenty nine today verses

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Speaker 1: ten through thirty, and we'll finish out season nine, and

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Speaker 1: then Wednesday we'll start season ten. I'm not gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break or anything like that. I'm just gonna jump

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Speaker 1: right into season ten with Second Chronicles. But for right now,

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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and read First Chronicles twenty nine, starting

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Speaker 1: in verse ten. Grab your cup of coffee or your

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Speaker 1: cup of tea this morning, and let's read scripture together.

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Speaker 1: As per usual, I will be reading from the web. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly, and David said,

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Speaker 1: you are blessed Yahweh, the God of Israel, our father

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Speaker 1: forever and ever yours. Yahweh is the greatness, the power,

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Speaker 1: the glory, the victory, and the majesty. For all that

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Speaker 1: is the kingdom, Yahweh, And you are exalted as head

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Speaker 1: you rule over all. In your hand is power and might.

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Speaker 1: It is in your hand to make great and to

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Speaker 1: give strength to all. Now, therefore, our God, we thank

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Speaker 1: you and praise your glorious name. But who am I

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Speaker 1: and what is my people that we should be able

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Speaker 1: from you, and we have given you of your own.

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Speaker 1: For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all

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Speaker 1: our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as

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Speaker 1: a shadow, and there is no remaining. Yahweh are God.

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Speaker 1: All this store that we have prepared to build you

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Speaker 1: and is all your own. You know also, my God,

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Speaker 1: that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness.

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Speaker 1: As for me, in the uprightness of my heart, I

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Speaker 1: have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen

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Speaker 1: with joy your people who are present here, offer willingly

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Speaker 1: to you Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and

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Speaker 1: of Israel. Our fathers, keep this desire forever in the

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Speaker 1: thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their

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Speaker 1: heart for you. And give to Solomon my son, a

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Speaker 1: perfect heart to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes,

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Speaker 1: and to do all these things, and to build the

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Speaker 1: palace for which I have made provision. Then David said

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Speaker 1: to all the assembly, now bless Yahweh, your God. All

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Speaker 1: the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and

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Speaker 1: bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and

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Speaker 1: the King. They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh and offered burnt

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Speaker 1: offerings to Yahweh on the next day. After that day,

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Speaker 1: even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand

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Speaker 1: all Israel, and they ate and drank before Yahweh on

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Speaker 1: that day with great gladness. They made Solomon, the son

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Speaker 1: of David king the second time, and anointed him before

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Speaker 1: Yahweh to be prince and Zadig to be the priest.

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Speaker 1: Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king

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Speaker 1: instead of David his father, and prospered, and all Israel

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Speaker 1: all the sons of King David submitted themselves to Solomon

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Speaker 1: all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as

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Speaker 1: Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

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Speaker 1: The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years,

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Speaker 1: and he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned

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Speaker 1: old age, full of days, riches and honor, and Solomon

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Speaker 1: his son reigned in his place. Now the acts of

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Speaker 1: David the King first and last behold. They are written

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Speaker 1: in the history of Samuel the Seer, and in the

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Speaker 1: And that is where we leave off today. In verse ten,

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Speaker 1: therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly, and David said,

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Speaker 1: Yours is the Kingdom, Yahweh. And you are exalted as

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Speaker 1: David was like the master at prayer. Most of the

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Speaker 1: majority of them. Man, he was such a good prayer,

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Speaker 1: Like have you ever been around somebody that's just a

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Speaker 1: that I could pray that good in public. I feel

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Speaker 1: like people probably felt the same way about David when

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Speaker 1: forever and ever. So that's a really important phrase, actually,

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Speaker 1: first and foremost, when you see somebody saying you are blessed, Yahweh,

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Speaker 1: New Testament that's how Jesus actually commanded his disciples to pray,

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Speaker 1: all of us to pray. Rather, we were to pray

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Speaker 1: our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be thy name,

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Speaker 1: father because that's a very personal thing. If someone is

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Speaker 1: important and personal figure in each person's life. Everybody, every

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Speaker 1: why David considers God his father Israel's father. And this

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Speaker 1: hallowed be thy name, that is us giving honor to God.

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Speaker 1: And then David in verse fourteen, goes from giving honor

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Speaker 1: And you guessed it. The Lord's prayer follows that same

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Speaker 1: to miss a great start to season ten of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Faithful listeners, have a fantastic and wonderful, wonderful rest of

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Speaker 1: your day. I will see you guys tomorrow bright and

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Speaker 1: early six am or whenever you choose to wake up

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Speaker 1: and listen. Until then, happy listening, and God bless