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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-05-09  |  1.6 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  37 seconds
Transcription: The Israelites were still thinking of God in terms of their own small community, but God had never intended for his blessings to stop with the Jews. When he had first revealed the covenant to Abraham, he had promised that Abraham's offspring would bless the whole earth. Ironically, at a time of deep humiliation, while living as unwilling captives in Babylon, the Jews began to convince others that their God deserved honor. Proclamations by Nebuchadnezzar and later Darius honored God more than anything a king of Judah had done in years.