2 Chronicles 14-20; 26; 30 Part 1 • Sister Heather Farrell • July 20-26 • Come, Follow Me

Touched by an episode? Click here to send a voice note. What if the most powerful religious leader in ancient Judah was the king’s mother? Sister Heather Farrell walks us through 2 Chronicles and the queen mother whose name the record keeps even when it forgets everything else, and makes the case that the covenants have always traveled through the household and through family stories far messier than we’d like to admit. SHOW NOTES/TRANSCRIPTS English: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT230EN French: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT230FR German: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT230DE Portuguese: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT230PT Spanish: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT230ES YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/00ytqfvXE48 ALL EPISODES/SHOW NOTES followHIM website: https://www.followHIMpodcast.com FREE PDF DOWNLOADS OF followHIM QUOTE BOOKS New Testament: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastNTBook Old Testament: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastOTBook Book of Mormon: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastBMBook   WEEKLY NEWSLETTER https://tinyurl.com/followHIMnewsletter   SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/followHIMpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcast TIMECODE 0:00 - Part 1 - Sister Heather Farrell 1:15 Why would anyone love Chronicles? 2:51 “Our eyes are upon thee” 4:01 Bio 6:40 Come, Follow Me Manual 7:49 Chronicles 101: one book, not two (and its two obsessions) 9:50 Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, and Torah 10:55 The Chronicler as Mormon 13:04 Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia–4 ways to conquer a people 16:28 The last verse in the Hebrew Bible is about the temple 17:47 Dolly, Mary, and a messy line 22:23 Why do Kings and Chronicles tell the same stories? 24:24 Solomon built two houses 26:36 The Nauvoo parallel 28:13 God accepts the dedication 31:03 The verse that became a song 33:33 The second covenant 35:43 Official religion vs. household religion 38:30 Easter happens at home (why we need fridge magnets) 40:40 Asa tears down the high places and groves 43:18 Asherah and why she is NOT our Heavenly Mother 46:35 Asa’s prayer 48:20 Worthiness to ask for a miracle 50:38 Spiritual storehouses (like grain but better) 53:03 The hard verse is descriptive not prescriptive 55:21 Asa’s mistake 58:13 The gebirah–the King’s mother 1:00:13 Bathsheba and why Kings always names the mother 1:02:39 Covenant power that transfers through a woman 1:05:13 A dynasty that runs on worthiness, not just blood 1:06:12 Jumping Jehoshaphat 1:08:37 “There is yet one man … but I hate him” 1:09:47 End of Part 1 – Sister Heather Farrell Thanks to the followHIM team: Steve & Shannon Sorensen: Cofounder, Executive Producer, Sponsor David & Verla Sorensen: Sponsors Dr. Hank Smith: Co-host John Bytheway: Co-host David Perry: Producer Kyle Nelson: Marketing, Sponsor Lisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show Notes Will Stoughton: Video Editor Krystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, Website Ariel Cuadra: Spanish Transcripts Amelia Kabwika: Portuguese Transcripts Heather Barlow: Communications Director Sydney Smith: Social Media, Graphic Design   "Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonald https://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com