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Day 125: Covenant with David (2023)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Importance of First and Second Chronicles

Chronicles is the last book in the Jewish scriptures because this is written by what we'd say, the Ezra the scribe. The first chronicles is written kind of like after all of that story has been written and then even after their exile to Babylon. And now Ezra is writing the story and he's writing the history. So keep this in mind if you're writing the history simply of say the United States or whatever country you're in right now. We would write a different story. Wouldn't be necessarily a whitewash or a fictional story, but it would be different emphasis, right? It would be a different kind of story.

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