I did not read anything thing yesterday. Fortunately, I was one day ahead in the reading plan and today was a day “off” on the DJ schedule. It took me about 20 minutes to read these chapters.
These chapters deal with the rapid corruption seen in the nation of Israel’s leadership. After Jeroboam’s rejection of the God of Israel each subsequent leader fled further from the truth. Ahab seemed to be a king who would listen to God’s prophets, except that he kept listening to his wife. Jezebel repeatedly undercut anything good that Ahab started to do, leading him, and the people further into idolatry. By the end of the drought there were only 7,000 people, in a country of possibly millions, who had never bowed to worship baal. Elijah had had enough and God raised up his replacement; Elisha.
Stuart
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