Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us today, then let me just welcome you and say that I am so glad that you're here.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America with my amazing, beautiful, godly wife Lacey

and our two wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity.

Let's begin today by looking at a passage of scripture that we briefly touched on in the

previous episode, and that's Second Kings chapter 6. So you can follow along if you want.

We won't be staying in this passage very long,

but I thought that it would be a great place to begin for our discussion today.

So 2nd Kings chapter 6, beginning in verse 8, it says,

Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel,

he took counsel with his servants saying,

at such and such a place shall be my camp.

But the man of God sent word to the King of Israel, beware that you do not pass this place,

for the Syrians are going down there.

And the King of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him.

Thus he used to warn him so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.

And the mind of the King of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called

his servants and said to them, will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?

And one of his servants said, none, my lord, O king, but Elisha the prophet, who is in Israel, tells

the king of Israel the words that you speak

in your bedroom. And he said, go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him. It was told him,

behold, he is in Dothan. So he sent their horses and cherries in a great army, and they came by night

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