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No shmoop in the bible second chronicles seas will be

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to shmoop here with the second book of chronicles and

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you may remember from chronicles numero uno thes books recap

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the history of israel and put the spotlight on israel's

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kings you know because kings don't get enough attention anyway

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Chronicles part dio picks up with the rain of solomon

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Well solomon's rule ends up being a golden age for

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the israel lights figuratively and literally How well god comes

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to solomon in a dream and asked him what he

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wants solomon ask for great wisdom and god's like really

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i would have gone with like a jet ski or

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something But whatever your call dude Well under solomon's wise

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but sadly jet ski lis rule israel lights amassed a

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huge fortune I'm talking scrooge mcduck levels here Solomon also

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builds the temple in jerusalem that david was unable to

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and he places the ark of the covenant inside Basically

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he is killing it I mean he doesn't have a

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jet ski so he could be doing better But he's

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still doing pretty well well Solomon's reputation spreads far and

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wide and eventually even the queen of sheba is like

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i got to meet this guy He has a jet

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ski right No Well that's disappointing Anyway point is he's

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a pretty cool dude But all good things must come

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to an end and things go south pretty quickly After

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solomon's death his kingdom is split into two parts with

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his son roban ruling in the southern kingdom of judah

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and his other son jeroboam ruling in the northern kingdom

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of israel Will jeroboam and rita bohm Maybe solomon should've

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asked god for better baby naming skills Jeroboam unreachable Honestly

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Anyway the two nations are almost continually constantly always at

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war probably misplaced aggression over the name thing Jeroboam monroe

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boom Obviously god is none too pleased with the situation

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but he gets where all the anger is coming from

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Jeroboam and rob bone come on way god's warnings go

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mostly unheeded So both judah and israel have a succession

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of normally named but really bad kings though there are

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a few good ones like hezekiah and josiah sprinkled in

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along the way but eventually got has enough of these

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guys messing around in the syrians invade the northern kingdom

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and destroy it Hence the whole ten lost tribes of

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israel thing you would think that this would set the

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southern kingdom straight but they don't seem to have a

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great grasp on cause and effect you know as in

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worship god and good things happen worship other gods and

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you'll get some major wrath dropped on your head which

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you do not want it so hard to watch major

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wrath out of your hair Trust me right Since the

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southern kingdom of judah hasn't managed to get their act

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together god puts on his best smiling robe and unleashes

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the babylonian sze will the babylonians invade burned the temple

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to the ground and do some good old fashioned looting

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and pillaging the royal family's exiled And there are people

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still trying to wash raft out of their hair is

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just a mess Well the righter of chronicles also stresses

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that this was the fault of all of judah and

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that god warned them like a billion times all right

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so the judah and stay in captivity seventy years just

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as the prophet jeremiah predicted though jeremiah also predicted that

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star wars episodes one two and three would be bigger

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than four five and six but you know you win

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Some you lose some king cyrus of persia defeats the

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babylonians and decide so let israel let's head back to

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judah and rebuild and that's the end of the second

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chronicles Well if you take one thing away from this

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book let it be this Never name your children jeroboam

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or rab on seriously don't all right until next time

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