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Speaker 1: Hello, faithful listeners. Thank you so much for tuning in

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Speaker 1: to the Bible Explained podcast. And Hi, my name is Jen.

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Speaker 1: I am the host of this podcast, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to be reading Second Chronicles chapter twelve today, the entire

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Speaker 1: thing talking about the life and death of King ray

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Speaker 1: A Boham and how he certainly did not do what

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Speaker 1: God wanted him to do. We'll get into that in

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Speaker 1: just a moment. So the past couple weeks for me

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Speaker 1: have been very snowy. I'm actually looking out on my

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Speaker 1: deck right now and we probably have a good i

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Speaker 1: would say nine to ten inches of snow right now,

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Speaker 1: and it just keeps coming down. But it looks beautiful,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's that really like fluffy snow that is

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Speaker 1: really easy to get off your car. So it's nice.

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Speaker 1: It's not like super icy, so I'm thankful for that.

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Speaker 1: Ice is the worst. We had a really icy year

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Speaker 1: last year and actually my husband fell and like messed

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Speaker 1: up his thumb. So I'm thankful that it's not super

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Speaker 1: icy this year. Yet, very thankful for that. Tell me

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Speaker 1: how the weather is where you guys are, I'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear about that. And if you live in a nice,

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Speaker 1: warm climate, please contact me so I can live vicariously

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Speaker 1: through you. You know, I'm just craving some nice warm weather,

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Speaker 1: all right, favor listeners, don't forget. I am going to

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Speaker 1: be taking a short break from tomorrow all the way

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Speaker 1: to next Wednesday, and then next Thursday there will be

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Speaker 1: an episode on the podcast once again, and I'm very

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Speaker 1: much looking forward to this week long break that I'm

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Speaker 1: taking because this is one of the first times in

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Speaker 1: about eight years that my husband is also taking time

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Speaker 1: off at the same time. So that is why I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be taking this break is just to see

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Speaker 1: my husband again. You know, It's been eight years since

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Speaker 1: we spent like an extended period of time together. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely looking forward to it, and once again, thank

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Speaker 1: you for the time off that you all are giving

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Speaker 1: to me. Let's go ahead and read Second Chronicles twelve

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Speaker 1: one through sixteen, which is the entire chapter, and we

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Speaker 1: will finish discussing the life of Raeboam and also the

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Speaker 1: death of Raeboam and some of the problems that Israel

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Speaker 1: is now beginning to experience under the reign of Raeboam.

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Speaker 1: I'll be reading this as usual from the w EB

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Speaker 1: when the kingdom of Reeboam was established, and he was strong.

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Speaker 1: He abandoned Yahwa's law and all Israel with him. In

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Speaker 1: the fifth year of King Rayeboam, Shei Shak, king of Egypt,

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Speaker 1: came up against Jerusalem because they had trespassed against Yahweh.

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Speaker 1: With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The people

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Speaker 1: the Lubim, the Sukim, and the Ethiopians. He took the

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Speaker 1: fortified cities which belonged to Judah and came to Jerusalem.

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Speaker 1: Now Shamehah the prophet came to Reeboam and to the

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Speaker 1: princes of Judah who were gathered together to Jerusalem because

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Speaker 1: of she Shak, and he said to them, Yahweh says,

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Speaker 1: you have forsaken me. Therefore I have also left you

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Speaker 1: in the hand of she Shak. Then the princes of

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Speaker 1: Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, Yahweh

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Speaker 1: Alwai's word came to Shemea, saying, they have humbled themselves.

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Speaker 1: I will not destroy them, but I will grant them

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Speaker 1: Jerusalem by the hand of she Shak. Nevertheless, they will

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Speaker 1: the service of the kingdoms of the countries. So she Shak,

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Speaker 1: king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away

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Speaker 1: the treasures of Yahway's house and the treasures of the

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Speaker 1: king's house. He took it all away. He also took

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Speaker 1: away the shields of gold which Solomon had made. King

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Speaker 1: Rayaboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed

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Speaker 1: who kept the door of the king's house. As often

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Speaker 1: as the king entered into Yawai's house, the guard came

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Speaker 1: When he humbled himself, y Alwais wrath turned from him,

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Speaker 1: so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were

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Speaker 1: good things found in Judah, so King Raaboam strengthened himself

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Speaker 1: in Jerusalem and reigned for Reaboam was forty one years

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Speaker 1: seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen

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Speaker 1: He did that which was evil because he didn't set

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Speaker 1: the genealogies. There were wars between Reeboam and Jereboam. Continually,

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Speaker 1: He basically fractured Israel days after becoming the king. So

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Speaker 1: now Israel is split into two separate nations. Now, the

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Speaker 1: actually find out what Israel did in First Kings fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Second Chronicles doesn't go specifically into it, but First Kings

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Speaker 1: through twenty four. Rayeboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah.

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Speaker 1: Raeboam was forty one years old when he began to reign,

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Speaker 1: sodomites in the land, is what first Kings fourteen twenty

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Speaker 1: Also in general, Israel had abandoned Yahweh fully, so she

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