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Hi, my name is Father Mike

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Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible In A

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Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live

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Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all

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the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the

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story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into

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that story today. Today is day 165. We are

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reading from 1 Kings chapter 15

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and 16, 2 Chronicles chapters 16 and

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17, and the Song of

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Solomon chapter 4. That's a lot of chapters

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today. That's five chapters today, so that's going

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to be great. So buckle up and hang

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can by clicking on subscribe. As I said, it

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is day 165, which is so good. You guys,

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congratulations. This is remarkable. Imagine for the last

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165 days or at least 165 times you've

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allowed God's Word

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to shape your mind and shape your heart and

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shape the way in which you see the world.

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So good. What a gift. So day 165, reading 1 Kings 15 and 16,

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2 Chronicles 16 and 17, and

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the Song of Solomon chapter 4. The

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first book of Kings chapter 15, Abijah reigns

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over Judah. Now in

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the 18th year of King Jeroboam, the son

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of Nabat, Abijah began to reign over Judah.

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He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His

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mother's name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalam. And

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he walked in all the sins, which his father did

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before him and his heart was not wholly

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true to the Lord, his God as the heart of

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David, his father. Nevertheless for

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David's sake, the Lord, his God gave

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him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up

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his son after him and establishing Jerusalem

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because David did what was right in the eyes of the

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Lord. and did not turn aside from anything

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that he commanded him all the days of his

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life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the

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days of his life, the rest of the acts of

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Abisham, and all that he did, are they not written

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in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

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Judah? And there was war between

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Abisham and Jeroboam. And Abisham slept

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with his fathers, and they buried him in the city

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of David, and Asa his son reigned

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in his stead. Asa

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reigns over Judah In the

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20th year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Asa

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began to reign over Judah, and

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he reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His

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mother's name was Ma'akah, the daughter of Abishalam. And

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Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as

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David his father had done. He put away

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the male cult prostitutes out of the land, and

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removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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He also removed Ma'akah his mother from being

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Queen Mother because she had an abominable image

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made for Asherah, and Asa cut down her

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image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless,

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the heart of Asa was wholly true to the

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Lord all his days. And he

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brought into the house of the Lord the votive

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gifts of his father, and his own votive gifts,

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silver and gold and vessels. War

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between Asa and Ba'asha And

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there was war between Asa and Ba'asha, king of

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Israel, all their days. Ba'asha, king

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of Israel, went up against Judah and built Rama,

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that he might permit no one to go out

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or to come in to Asa, the king of

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Judah. Then Asa took all the

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silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of

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the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's

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house, and gave them into the hands of his servants. And

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King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad, the

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son of Tapermon, the son of Hezion,

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king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus,

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saying, Let there be league between

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me and you, as between my father and

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your father. Behold, I am sending

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to you a present of silver and gold.

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Go, break your league with Ba'asha, king of

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Israel, that he may withdraw from me. And

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Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the

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commanders of his armies against the cities of

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Israel, and conquered Israel. John, Dan,

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Abel Beth-ma-aka, and all Chinnoroth, in all

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the land of Naphtali. And

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when Ba'asha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah,

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and dwelt in Tirza. Then

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king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none

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was exempt, and they carried away

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the stones of Ramah and its timber with

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which Ba'asha had been building. And

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with them king Asa built Geba, of Benjamin,

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and Mizpah. Now the rest

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of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and

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all that he did, and the cities which he built,

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are they not written in the book of the chronicles

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of the kings of Judah? But

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in his old age, he was diseased in

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his feet, and Asa slept with

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his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the

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city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat,

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his son, reigned in his stead. Nadab

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reigns over Israel Nadab,

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the son of Jeroboam, began to reign over Israel

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in the second year of Asa, king of Judah,

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and he reigned over Israel two years. He

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did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and

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walked in the way of his father, and

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in his sin which he made Israel to sin. Ba'asha,

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the son of Ahijah, of the house

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of Issachar, conspired against him, and Ba'asha

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struck him down at Gibbathon, which belonged

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to the Philistines, for Nadab and

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all Israel were laying siege to Gibbathon. So

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Ba'asha killed him in the third year of Asa,

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king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. And

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as soon as he was king, he killed all

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the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house

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of Jeroboam not one that breathed until he had

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destroyed it according to the word of the Lord,

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which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shillanite.

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It was for the sins of Jeroboam which he

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sinned and which he made Israel to sin, and

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because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord,

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the God of Israel. Now, the

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rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he

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did, are they not written in the book of the

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chronicles of the kings of Israel? And

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there was war between Asa and Ba'asha, king of

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Israel, all their days. Ba'asha

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reigns over Israel. In

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the third year of Asa, king of Judah,

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Ba'asha, son of Ahijah, began to reign over

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all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned