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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 22 and Psalm 119:97-128 An unlikely alliance formed between the righteous Judean King Jehoshaphat and the wicked Israelite King Ahab, when they agreed to join forces to take back Ramoth Gilead. This strategic town (40km from Jerusalem) was meant to have been returned by Ben Hadad of Syria under the terms
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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 21 and Psalm 119:65-96 Naboth’s refusal to sell his vineyard was probably not only because it was a good and highly productive vineyard which had been passed on to him by his father. It also seems to reflect deep respect for God’s instructions found in places like Levivticus 25:23, “The land must
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Daily Reading: 1 Kings 20 and Psalm 119:33-64 In 1 Kings 20, the northern kingdom of Israel was still under the rule of the weak and compromising King Ahab and his murderous wife, Jezebel. Israel came under attack by King Ben-Hadad of Syria. After initially cowering in submission, Ahab took counsel and then showed uncharacteristic,
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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 19 and Psalm 119:1-32 Elijah had his great moment of triumph atop Mount Carmel. The LORD had given the miraculous sign of fire from heaven and had proven once and for all that Baal was no god at all. Rain had come to the land after a long drought and, as
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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 18 and Psalm 118 Ahab was so corrupted by his allegiance to the false god Baal that he had allowed his wife, Jezebel, to initiate the wholesale eradication of Yahweh’s prophets from the land. Yet somehow, one of his most trusted administrators was Obadiah, a devout believer in Yahweh, hidden in
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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 17 and Psalm 117 Elijah explodes onto the Biblical scene in 1 Kings 17. We aren’t told how the Lord called and commissioned him to the prophetic ministry, but he started with the same courage that characterised his whole ministry. Elijah comes from rural Tishbe into the court of the wicked
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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 16 and Psalm 116 During the 41 years of King Asa’s reign in Judah (the southern kingdom) multiple kings came to power in the northern kingdom of Israel. Baasha (24 years), Elah (2 years), Zimri (7 days), Omri (12 years) and Ahab, who eventually ruled well beyond the time of King
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Daliy readings: 1 Kings 15 and Psalm 115 The chapters of 1 Kings that deal with successive kings can be confusing. Remember that at this point the histories of the two kingdoms are being recorded in parallel. In chapter 15 we cover 44 years and read about the kingdom of Judah (in the south) being
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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 14 and Psalm 114 King Jeroboam (of the northern kingdom of Israel) had utterly rejected Yahweh. He had erected golden calf idols and demanded that they be worship as the gods of Israel. Even having been confronted by the prophet from Judah and given two signs (an altar that split and
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Daily Readings: 1 Kings 13 and Psalm 113 1 Kings 13 is a very tough chapter for disciples of Jesus. We know that God has chosen to deal with us mercifully – not treating us as our sins deserve. Yet, at first glance, it seems as though the man of God from Judah receives severe
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