Originally posted in a forum in 2010 - this post may contain links which are no longer valid, if you find a non-working link, please let me know and I will attempt to find a replacement or make a correction as necessary.
Days 154-157
Northern Kingdom - 10 Tribes
Zimri - (7 days) - BAD - 1 Kings 16:11-13
Dies in a fire - 1 Kings 16:20, 15-19
Omri - (12 years) - VERY BAD - 1 Kings 16:21
Prosperous under prophets Elijah and Elisha (40 years)
Death of Tibni (31st Year of Asa) - 1 Kings 16:22-23
Made Samaria the Capital - 1 Kings 16:24-26
Ahab Began Dual Reign with Omri -
Death of Omri - 1 Kings 16:27-28
Ahab (22 years) - BAD - 1 Kings 16:29
Established Baal worship in Samaria - 1 Kings 16:30-33; 1 Kings 21:25-26
Rebuilding of Jericho - 1 Kings 16:34
Persecution of the prophets - 1 Kings 18:4
Ministry of Elijah begins - Ahab warned of famine - 1 Kings 17:1
Fed at brook Cherith - 1 Kings 17:2-7
Miracle of the meal/oil in Zarephath - 1 Kings 17:8-16
Raises the widow's son - 1 Kings 17:17-24
Jehoram (Judah) marries Athaliah (Israel) - 2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chronicles 21:6
Obadiah prepares meeting for Ahab - 1 Kings 18:1-16
Contest on Mount Carmel, Answer Comes By Fire - 1 Kings 18:17-39
Baal prophets destroyed, rain comes - 1 Kings 18:40-46; 1 Kings 19:1-2
God's tender care of Elijah - 1 Kings 19:3-7
God speaks in still small voice at Horeb - 1 Kings 19:8-18
Elisha joins Elijah - 1 Kings 19:19-21
Syrian Wars - Israel wins first battle - 1 Kings 20:1-21
Southern Kingdom - 2 Tribes
Asa - GOOD
Birth of Jehoram (2 Kings 8:17)
Jehoshaphat began dual reign with Asa
Asa's feet diseased - 1 Kings 15:23; 2 Chronicles 16:11-12
Death of Asa (Apx 56 years) - 1 Kings 15:24; 2 Chronicles 16:13-14
Jehoshaphat (25 years) - GOOD - 2 Chronicles 20:31-33; 1 Kings 22:41-46
A good life - 2 Chronicles 17:1-19; 2 Chronicles 18:1
Jehoram (Judah) marries Athaliah (Israel) - 2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chronicles 21:6
Birth of Ahaziah
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I like the designation between BAD and VERY BAD - if BAD was not detrimental enough, you get VERY BAD...the nations get the exact ruler that God wants them to have...and when they are bad (or even VERY bad) it is a reflection of the wickedness of that nation.
I have always been fascinated by the Mount Carmel showdown...the Baal worshipers frenzied cuttings, loud callings. Elijah (God of Jehovah) mocking their ‘god' - "Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awakened."
Contrast that with the one true GOD - who neither sleeps nor slumbers. Whose ear is always attentive to the prayers of HIS people. Whose eye rests upon us, knowing the number of hairs upon our heads.
No rainfall for 3 years...and Elijah takes 12 stones (for a united Israel) and builds an altar, digs a trench and has the wood, bullock, stones, and trench drenched with water 3x (hmmm - 3 years, 3x * 4 barrels = 12), with a scarcity of water this is amazing. At the time of the evening sacrifice Elijah asks the Lord to hear him and if he is the Lord's prophet, consume the offering.
And God does...consuming the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, the dust, licking up the water in the trench. Elijah gets an awesome experience, the confirmation to all that he is a prophet, a true prophet, that God heard him. What a glorious mountain top experience...and then Jezebel (chaste - how this woman's name can mean chaste is beyond me) threatens to kill Elijah...and he runs. From the mountain to the valley...in a very short space of time...and he cries out to die...been there, done that...God the trial is too much. Yet, Father in HIS loving provision NEVER gives us more than what we can handle ~ NEVER.
Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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