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to transform our lives. We are back. Back in purple. Wait. Ready for another conversation.
I said back in purple because the frame of the video that we're doing is in purple,
but it occurred to me that when we actually put this on YouTube, it's not purple. No,
nothing's purple. I'll wear a purple shirt for you next time. Yeah. Yeah. We are talking,
not exactly sure how to say it, but it is actually an Egyptian Pharaoh. It's either Niko the second
or Neco the second. I'm going to go with Neco the second. And if it's wrong, deal with it. Yeah.
So some of you are like, who the what? When I said, when we said Neco the second,
now he is a Pharaoh that appeared during the late seventh century BC.
The Bible literally has three references to him. One is second Chronicles 35, 20 through 24.
The other is second Kings 23, 34. All right. And then the other is in Jeremiah. So those are the
references that we have for him. And there is literally just a handful of verses on this king.
Yeah, I'm going to read those real quick, actually, if you don't mind. Yeah. So this first thing in
second Kings, it says, while Josiah was king, Josiah, we'll talk about him. Pharaoh Neco,
king of Egypt, went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out
to meet him in the battle, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo. Josiah's servants brought
his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people
of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
Let's see. I think that was no three thirty five. Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he became
king and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamado, daughter of Jeremiah.
She was from Libna. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, just as his predecessors had done.
Pharaoh Neco put him in chains at Ribla in the land of Hamath that he might not reign in Jerusalem
and he imposed on Judah a levy of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Pharaoh Neco made Elikim son of Josiah king in place of his father, Josiah, and changed Elikim's
name to Jehoahaz. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt and there he died.
Jehoahaz paid Pharaoh Neco the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land
and executed the silver, exacted the silver and gold from the people and the land according to
their assessments. Not a great story. No, not a great story.
And in the book of Jeremiah, this is it says concerning Egypt, a message about Egypt. This
is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah, the prophet concerning the nations concerning
Egypt. This is a message against the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was defeated
at Karmish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim,
son of Josiah, king of Judah. Propel your shields, both large and small, and march out for battle.
Harness the horses, mount the steeds, take your positions with helmets on, polish your spears,
put on your armor. What do I see? They are terrified. They are retreating. Their warriors
are defeated. They flee in haste without looking back. And there is terror on their side. The
swift cannot flee nor the strong escape. In the north by the river Euphrates, they stumble and
fall. Who is this that rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters? Egypt rises like the
Nile, like rivers of surging waters. She says, I will rise and cover the earth. I will destroy
cities and their people. Charge you horses, drive furiously you charioteers, march on you warriors,
men of Kush and put and who carries shields, men of Lydia who draw the bow. But on that day
belongs, but that day belongs to the Lord, the Lord Almighty, a day of vengeance and for
vengeance of his foes. And then the other account that we have is second chronicle of the
other account that we have is second Chronicles 35, 20 through 24. Now this is going to sound a
little bit like the king's account because we're written from two different perspectives,
two different perspectives. After all of this Josiah, um, when Josiah had the temple, uh,
blow blow. Let me try that again. After all of this, when Josiah had set the temple in order,
Neco, king of Egypt, went up to fight, uh, Kermish, um, the Kermish and the Euphrates.
Josiah marched to meet him in battle, but Neco sent messages to him saying,
uh, what coral is there king, king of Judah, uh, between you and me, it is not you. I am attacking
at this time, but the house of which I am at war, God told me to hurry and to stop and stop opposing.
So stop opposing God who is with me. He or who is stop opposing God who is with me or he will
destroy you. Really interesting, right? Neco is trying to twist the words, twist the words of the
Lord here. Okay. Josiah, however, would not turn away from him, but distinguished himself. Uh, but
yeah, distinguished, yeah, distinguished himself to engage in battle. He who would not listen to
Neco said Neco had said to God's command, but went to fight him at the plane of Magidil.
Uh, and archers shot King Josiah and, and he told his officers, take him away. I am badly wounded.
So they took him out of, out of the chariot and put him in another chariot and brought him to
Jerusalem where he died. He was buried in a tomb by his ancestors and all of Judah and Jerusalem
mourned for him. So the interesting thing about the account in the Bible is that, uh, one Neco
seems to think that he's being called by God to do these things. And to be fair, he might have
because Jerusalem was, or, uh, Israel was in a firm state of rebellion. Um, we'll talk about
Josiah because Josiah is the exception to the rule at this point, but, uh, it also does seem
like he feels bad about killing Josiah because the other guy steps in his king and he's like, no,
no, no, no. Puts them in chains and then puts the son of Josiah on the throne. Yeah. And you need
to, you need to understand a kind of Egyptian culture a little bit in the history of Egypt on
this. Cause Egypt essentially had three different ages and there's different sub ages fit that fit
within that. Right. Ages. Are you talking about ages like, uh, like timeframes, timeframes. Yeah.
I'm just making sure people are aware of timeframes. So like they had the, they had their early stage,
which was like a lot of people refer to it as the age of the pyramids. It's the age of wealth,
the age of power, prosperity. Uh, and then they had the shift in this middle timeframe and Necho,
he comes in towards the middle to the end of that middle timeframe. Uh, but they had the shift in
this middle timeframe where they actually went from worshiping multiple gods to, I think it was
Pharaoh Osiris was like, we're going to worship one God, which is the son God. And, and there was
actually rebellion and push against that. And so one of the things about, uh, Necho, if you look at
historical counts, this whole thing was bringing glory back to Egypt, right? Like restoring Egypt
essentially to its glory days. Right. And, and when you get to the third age of Egypt, they try to
shift back to that, but then they do this blending of cultures towards, towards the end of that,
which you see with, uh, in Alexandria and stuff like that. Um, now if there's an Egypt,
Egyptologist listening to this and they're like, you mess it up on so many levels, just email us.
We'll apologize. Yeah. Email us and then explain what we should have said. Yes. Yeah. So understanding
that you have, you have Necho who is going to battle, not necessarily with Israel at the time,
but he is, he is allied with Babylon and he is going to battle and he is wanting to restore,
uh, what Egypt used to be. Okay. So let's pause there for a second because we need to remind
people where Israel is. It's in the smack dab center of the world. So if you want to trade
anywhere, you gotta go through Israel. You gotta go through Israel. So if you're Egypt and you're
wanting to reestablish your power, what do you have to control trade routes, trade routes? So that's
why Necho is coming into Israel is because you got to control the trade routes. And he's like,
listen, I'm, I don't, I'm not here to fight you. I just going to be mine. Right. Because one of the
things that Egypt has is like, yes, they have horses and cattle and all those things, but why
do they have those things? Because the Nile always floods and they have tons of farming land in the
Nile. Yeah. Right. So if there's a place that has food, which by the way, whenever there's a famine
in Egypt, that's not good, right? In the Bible means that there's a pretty bad famine. Well,
that's the, that's the core to the core of Egypt's wealth. It's, it's actually not silver and gold.
They do have a lot of that, but it's actually food. Yeah, exactly. Well, they're food, they trade,
and then they have a lot of silver and gold because of that. Yeah. Right. And of course, then, of
course you would have lots of horses and goats and all these different animals, because you actually
have feed to be able to like raise them. Yeah. Right. Uh, you have chickens. Yeah. You got to
feed them a lot. Those, those guys eat a ton. And the more chickens you have, the more you got to be
able to feed them. If you don't have enough food, the chickens start dying or they start like
killing each other, eating each other because they started eating each other. Yeah. Yeah. And so like,
why does Egypt always have horses and all these, because they got food. A lot of these places,
they don't have food in that kind of quantity. Well, if you look at the history of Egypt,
whenever they did have a downturn, they bounced back from that pretty quickly because they had,
because they were able to with the, with the food, abundant food resource. One is, and it's not just
food. They had, they have an abundance of types of food too. Like it wasn't just, you know, grain.
Yeah. They have fruits and they have vegetables and they have all sorts of things that are being
grown in Egypt. Yeah. So you have this restoration of power that, that, uh, Neco is trying to
accomplish here. Uh, Egypt has been on this downward turn for a little bit and he's trying
to bring them back into a place where he's, where he's like, we're going to be a powerhouse nation
once again. Okay. Um, Oh, go ahead. You're going to say something. I was going to just, no, I was
going to go, um, yeah, one of the, one of the other, like there's other external accounts from
the Bible that actually talk about Neco the second. So like other historical places. So we talked
about this guy last year, last week, uh, Herodotus is a Greek historian. Uh, he actually mentions
Neco in its military campaign, but he specifically talks about his involvement in the battle of, uh,
Kekomish. And there's a lot of, in the Egyptian records, various inscriptions records describe
Neco the seconds reign, including his military and building projects such as he worked on a
canal that connected the Nile to the Red Sea. Big deal. Right. Um, and then there is also talk about
him in the Babylonian Chronicles as well. So Neco is not only found in the Bible, he's found in other
places in history as well. He's a real guy. Yeah. Right. He, yeah, he's a real guy. Um, so he,
he made this mistake though, of allying with the Babylonians, right. Which at the time, let's,
let's give credit where credit's due. That seems like a decent plan, right? Like we want to become
a powerhouse nation again. Let's, but we're not there. Let's ally with the powerhouse nation.
Right. Right. And what this, what this Alliance does is this puts Israel in a very tricky spot
because they have the Babylonians on one side powerhouse nation, and then they have Egypt rising
again on the other side of them. And not too long ago, they've been dealing with the Assyrians.
Yes. Right. So, uh, Israel's still bouncing back from this Assyrian fight. Um, if you actually,
if you actually look at the, we'll get into Josiah a little bit more in a minute, but if you
actually look at Josiah's story, he inherited a kingdom that was not following the Lord and Lord
had already declared punishment on them. And, but, but Josiah said, no, we are not following the ways
of the Lord. And he turned that around. They still suffered the punishment because Lord already
declared that. Right. Um, and so, so you have this nation where the Lord's declared punishment form.
We have two power, then you have Babylonia on one side, Egypt on the other side, and Egypt's trying
to come in, take over trade routes so that they can rival Babylon in the near future. Anytime you
hear Babylon, uh, we should go back to last week when we talked about Genesis Nimrod in Genesis 10
founds two cities, Babel, Nineveh, Assyrian and Babylonians. Right. So a lot of times when you
hear these, these names showing up in the Bible, you should think rebellious or, uh, not, not
necessarily a great group of people. Yeah. Right. And, um, and so, uh, you're kind of like stuck
between a rock and a hard place as, as Israel, but I actually think that's a really good place to pause
and actually talk about Josiah. Right. So Josiah, um, Josiah is the king of Judah. He's the guy that
actually dies in the skirmish with Neco. Right. Um, but in when he was eight years old, now I want
you to think about what you're doing when you were eight. I was still rolling around outside in mud
and, you know, like just trying to have fun. Oh man. I would love to hear your mom's reaction to
her hearing you say that just now. She's probably like, yep, that's right. Yeah. I, I grew up on a
400 acre camp. So he is, uh, you can read about this in second Kings 22. Um, it's, it says that
he had eight years old. He becomes king after the assassination of his father, Amman, man, that's,
that's tough. Right. So eight years old, your dad's been assassinated and now you're king.
Right. So he sends to the throne. And, uh, one of the things that immediately starts happening is
he starts, um, major religious reforms to restore the temple to Yahweh, to get back to God. He's
purging, uh, idolatry and he's repairing the temple. And, uh, while they're repairing the temple,
they find the book of the law likely Deuteronomy, but, um, like just by, by some of the things that
they actually mentioned in the text that it's probably Deuteronomy is what they found. Cause
once again, we don't, I, those of you that are on us on video, you see this, like this is a Bible
that we have 66 books in, but when they had like books, they had scrolls that had like parts of
each book or sometimes the entire book. Yeah. Right. Because paper was a, uh, as a value,
value commodity. So they found a scroll. They probably found one of the books of Torah. Right.
And, uh, based on that, they, they think that he probably found Deuteronomy and they start reading
it and he's like, Oh, we haven't been doing any of this stuff. Right. He's like, ah, we have not
been doing good. So eight, you know, he's, he's leading, he's like, you know what? We're going to
fix it. So go and knock out the high places, uh, go take down the Asherah poles and he renews the
covenant with God, leading his people to a commitment of following the law. Uh, and then
he reinstated, this is a really cool thing. He reinstated the celebration of Passover, right?
Recognizing that, uh, like this, the story of being brought out of Egypt, right? Again, like that
remembering where you come from. And, uh, one of my favorite part about Josiah is, uh, prior to him
becoming King prior to his birth, God had finally said, when it says, when you're reading second
Kings, it's like this King did evil inside of the Lord. This King did evil inside of the Lord. This
King did evil inside of the Lord. And it happens over and over and over again. God goes, all right,
we're done. Like we're going to, we're going to change this. And then Josiah shows up and he is
a man, uh, who just responds to seeing the word of God in his life. Like God's, I said, Hey,
destruction is coming. This, this, this country is getting over there and you're going to captivity.
I've got to make sure you learn your lesson so that you can be my people the way I need you to
be my people. Yeah. But then Josiah comes and he's so obedient that God actually says to him, he says,
because of you, like destruction is coming, right? But because of you, it's not going to come until
you're no longer here, which he then continued to reign for 40 years, right? Cause of one person's
faithfulness. Now, granny is a King. I understand like he influences all the things, but because of
one person's faithfulness, the entire country is, is given a reprieve. Yeah. Well, and yes,
he was a King, but he ascended to the throne at eight and the purging was one of the first things
he did. Right. So when you talk about that, oftentimes when we read stories like this, like,
Oh, this King. And we think of like a older, more mature fellow. I was like, no, he was most likely
doing this in his early teen years. Yeah. Like cleaning up the temple and purging. And like,
there had to be a chunk of Israel who just wasn't taking him seriously. Right. Right. Cause they're
like, Oh, there's a little boy King right here type thing. And so, and then he continues. Well,
he's King for now, but let's see if he gets assassinated. Right. Exactly. Cause that's what
just happened. And, and so you have this young man who is bringing reform and he's doing that
from a young age. He's not doing that from his thirties, forties. He's doing that from 10, 15
years old. And God, like he says, listen, it's still going to happen, but yeah, because of your
faithfulness, it's not happening in your life. Yeah. And you just, you just wonder, like, I
almost feel like when I read things like that in the texts, there's this invitation from God that he
says, what about the rest of you? Cause you can't tell me if all of Israel had turned out in sack
cloth and ashes going back to last week with Senecra, right? That they all turn out in sack
cloth and ashes and are like, we're going to serve God. We're going to be faithful. We're going to be
generous. We're going to care for the poor. We're going to love the people around us. We're going
to put a Torah on display. Yeah. That God doesn't say, all right, let's do this. Right.
But that doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. No, not yet. Anyways. So, so this is a story. This is the
setup. This is where we're at two rising powers, a boy King in the middle. It's probably not the
best term, but you know, like a child King in the middle, right? Boy King. Yeah. Yeah. He's
at best probably doesn't know what he's doing. And then finds the word of the Lord starts following
after God's heart. And the Lord says, okay, it's not going to happen in your lifetime. Okay. And
so you look at these stories and so then you have Egypt wanting to take over these trade routes.
They've allied themselves with Babylon. The other name that's mentioned as far as a non-Jewish
King in the story is Nebuchadnezzar. So this will also tell you that this is roughly the time of
Daniel that this is happening because Nebuchadnezzar, which we're going to talk about him
another week. Yeah, maybe next week. Maybe next week, but we're going to talk, but Nebuchadnezzar
is a whole nother awesome story. But Nebuchadnezzar and in his time as King in Babylon, he was not
known. He was known for being arrogant and prideful, right? Like you like the Babylonian
hanging gardens were known as one of the wonders of the world, right? This King that was out in
the desert, but he had these lush hanging rooftop gardens. And so this is the story of
Nebuchadnezzar. So these are the powers that you have to be. And when you're talking about
Egypt wanting to restore who they were, the one thing that actually caused their initial downfall
was the Exodus. So Israel leaving was one thing that actually caused their wealth to downfall
their workforce. Their slave labor went away. And so you have this King being like, no, I want to
bring us back to those glory days. So part of me wonders, and there's nothing in a text on this,
and I don't have any historical account on this, but part of me wonders like was Necho thinking of,
man, I want to bring the Israelites back into slavery to show that our gods are as powerful
as their God. Right. That is by the way, that is like not textual analysis, but more of just like,
like, that's not textual analysis at all. Personal, personal thoughts and insights.
Yeah. But I think there's applicable life lessons in right. Right. We're, we're oftentimes we can
be like, we're going to put our quote unquote gods up on the same level as God and say these things
are just as important. Right. We absolutely do that. Yeah. And it's always, it's always in this
place of like priorities and like where you place God in your life that leads to a lot of downfall.
Yeah. Cause he, cause if you read the story, especially the second Chronicles account,
Necho is actually acknowledging the existence of the Israel God. He's actually trying to twist,
twist the words of God around and say, and actually, no, God wants me to come in and take
over these trade routes. Right. He's trying to speak a language to Israel that says, no,
God wants me to do this. Right. So he's acknowledging the existence of, of the Israelite God of Yahweh,
but he's also trying to bring them back to the glory days. And he's trying to say, Hey, okay.
I, your God is powerful, but our gods are just as powerful. Right. I think it's, I think it's
interesting that, so that Josiah reinstituted observation of the Passover, right. Passover,
celebrating the Exodus of what Egypt, Egypt, where God, sorry, where God through the 10 plagues,
he is actually pronouncing judgment on the gods of Egypt. Right. And now you got Necho coming back
to this King who's now reinstituted this remembrance of Egypt saying like, Hey, our gods are something
to you. Maybe invite him to a Passover dinner. You might remind him of the story. Right. Yeah.
And contextually for Egypt, Egypt's coming out of this phase where they actually had a Pharaoh,
Osiris, a number of Pharaohs ago, who instituted that they're only going to worship the sun god.
And, uh, and Egypt's actually coming out of this phase and going back to their multi-god worship.
And so you, then you have Necho coming into Egypt saying like, by the way, our gods are just as great
as yours. And, uh, yeah, it's not working out that way. And what happens to Necho at the end of the
story is that he actually is driven out of the land by Nebuchadnezzar. Right. You have Necho coming
into Israel saying, our gods are just as good as your God. Our culture is just as good as your
culture. And part of me wonders, and like, this is a little hyperbole, this is a little speculation.
So please do not take this as theological doctrine. Part of me wonders if God was like,
yeah, no, this is my land. Sorry. Get out. Yeah. And uses Nebuchadnezzar to make that happen.
Well, this, this also comes back to there's, there's a prophecy in the book of Daniel,
which by the way, it's happening around this time, right? Where there's like this, this, uh,
tower with like multiple different types of metal. Right. Yeah. And it's like,
different types of metal. Right. Yeah. It's getting crushed and then crushed and then crushed.
And if you know the history of what's going on during this time, you're like, well, the Assyrians
tried to come in, you know, and Senekeh Rebbe was like, oh, I'm going to go and do this.
And then, Nope, God knocked them out. And then the Egyptians come in. They're like, well, we're
going to take over the trade routes. Nope. They get driven out by the Babylonians led by Nebuchadnezzar.
Nebuchadnezzar is then deposed by Darius. Darius is then taken over by the Persians,
who is King Ossowar is right. And, um, also known as, um, what was his name? Xerxes. Yep.
And, uh, and so like you keep, you keep hearing these, like, like it's nation after nation is
like, oh, we're, we're bigger, we're stronger, we're on unsustainable all the way to the eventually
you have this nation by the name of Rome that is like nothing anybody had ever seen. Yeah.
And then they're toppled by a rabbi who dies on a cross. And I just love the way that God does these
things in the, in the world, right? Because the invitation of these Kings is always like accumulate
power, go and control the places. And God says, plant yourself in the center of all the conflict
and be the story. Yeah. Remember where I brought you from. Plant yourself in the middle of chaos.
So by the way, where is this real again? Cross over the world. Right. Right. God put,
God put his nation in the center of everything to where if Babylon wanted to trade with Egypt,
they had to go through Israel. Right. Same with Syria. So on and so forth. Like the whole known
world had to go through Israel at that time. Uh, it's part, it's actually part of the reason why
Rome was like, we have to take this over, right? In their expansion. So planning yourself in the
middle of everything that's going on so that you can be a light to those around you, because here's
reality. It will, it will change your community. By the way, if you think this is like, we're,
we're overheating this. I want to read you something from the, the sermon on the Mount from Jesus,
after he's gone through the Beatitudes and he says, um, like blessed are this supposed to be
this blessedness, right? He says this to his, to his disciples and everybody listening,
you are the salt of the earth. Right. Where does it all get put in the dish? Right. If salt loses
the saltiness, how can it be made salt again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown
out and trampled under foot. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be
hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it in the stand and
it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way. Let your light shine before others that they
may see your good days and glorify your father in heaven. It sounds a lot like I'm going to put you
at the crossroads of the world and call you to live a different way. Yeah. And you're going to
have Assyrians and you're going to have Egyptians and you're going to have Babylonians and you're
going to have Romans and you're going to have Greeks that are all going to come up and rise up
and be like our way of life is the best and you can't stand against us. And yet here we are
thousands of years later. And what nation is still standing?
Israel. Now, do those people live into the covenant? There's a conversation about that.
But God says, I want you to go be in the crossroads of the world and put his different
story on display. And so then I think the challenge for us, Gentile followers of Jesus
and Jewish followers of Jesus, 100 percent. Right. How do we go stand in the crossroads of our world
and live in such a way that we're light on a hill that's not hidden, that we're salt and light to
a world that desperately needs preservation and illumination? Yeah. I love that part in the
Sermon on the Mount because especially the light of the world, because I've always read it a little
tongue in cheek a little bit because it's Jesus is saying this and people listening, they're probably
like, there's probably a mix between like, oh, that's really profound. And like, yeah, no,
Doug, you don't hide a light underneath the right. Right. Like you have Christ in you.
So when you go into a dark place in the world, that light is supposed to illuminate that dark
place. I had a conversation with a friend of mine who used to work in prisons. Right. And he was
just talking about how prisons are very depressing and dark and full of, you know, just tons of stuff.
And he's like, he's like, yeah, I just don't know if I want to work there anymore. I was like,
do you know that you may be the only Jesus that people see for the entire time they're incarcerated?
And he was like, and so then we like talk like a couple of weeks later and he's like, he's like,
it's crazy because I like I've been praying and asking God to just like use me just with my
presence because he's only able to do so much as a yeah, as a as a officer. Right. Yeah.
But he's like, he's like, I never realized that just me physically being there brings the presence
of God into those places. Yeah. And I feel like sometimes we, we discount how much our presence
makes a difference. Yeah. Not because of us, but because of who's great inside of us.
Yep. Kings and kingdoms, man. Yep. So if there's any takeaway from today,
put yourself in the crossroads, right? And see what the Lord does. Second thing I would say
is don't be like the Kings of the outside and try to push your way into some place. You're not
supposed to be. Right. Because let's just be real. That never ends well. When you try to force
yourself into a place you're not supposed to be, just be where you need to be, be the light of
Jesus and see what happens. If you're listening and you have thoughts on the last few Kings,
we've talked about, please continue to send those to us at love and context at gmail.com.
Yeah. We would love to integrate those into our conversation. They may not show up in this series
just because of the recording schedule, but we would love to talk about it at a future date.
We are not talking about every foreign King in the Bible, right? There's a lot of them. There's
a lot of them. We've selected a few that we thought were significant. And we're going to
do that. We thought were significant. And those are the ones we're talking about. So if there's
other ones that you're like, Hey, I would really love to hear about Keisha, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, you know, cause that's definitely a real, you have to pronounce it correctly.
If you want to talk about it. Yeah. Um, uh, that was my attributes faster. Nick trying to pronounce
Hebrew names right there. Oh, Hey, you know what? Actually I do have one little random tip for
people before we go. Did you know that Cleopatra is closer to today's date than she was to the
creation of the pyramids? That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. That is crazy. That is a, that is a crazy
fact, isn't it? So I was reading that just the other day when I was scrolling through something
now, somebody can totally fact check me on a, but that totally sounds right. It sounds,
no, that sounds about right. Yeah. Cause she was around Christ time when that happened.
Whereas the pyramids are like 3000 BC. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, yeah. So if you have, if you have a
Kings, uh, in the Bible that you want us to talk about, let us know. Yeah.
Otherwise we'll catch you next time. Yep.
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