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2 Kings 19:20-37 (Episode 345)

40 Minutes In The Old Testament

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The Importance of Humility

This was, and this was pretty common in the ancient world, which I think maybe a couple episodes we talked about that. This idea that kings were either God like are actually gods or kind of opheliosis or an incarnation of a God as a war in Egypt. And so they've gone as far up as you can possibly go to the heights of the mountains. They've dug these wells in foreign soil. Basically they're saying we're masters. We're the king of kings. So this is. We may appear to be human, but we're actually divine. Yeah. Humility is not a in a Syrian virtue. No, especially when it comes to their kings.

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