CHAPTER FOURTEEN THREE GREAT CRISES IN ISRAEL 1 Kings 19:1 to 1 Kings 21:29 Three great crises which occurred during the reign of Ahab are discussed in Chapter s 19-21. These crises were very different from one another. The first one was spiritual in nature and pertains to that great theocratic tr... [ Continue Reading ]
III. THE GREAT SOCIAL CRISIS 21:1-16 The third crisis[476] discussed in Chapter s 19-21 is of a different nature than those previously treated. Here the threat is not of external military domination, but of internal breakdown of law and order. Chapter 21 shows clearly the social breakdown of Ahab's... [ Continue Reading ]
B. THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST NABOTH 21:8-16 TRANSLATION (8) So she wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and unto the nobles which were in his city, dwelling with Naboth, (9) and she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast and set... [ Continue Reading ]
C. THE CONDEMNATION BY ELIJAH 21:17-24 TRANSLATION (17) And the word of the LORD came unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying, (18) Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold he is in the vineyard of Naboth which he has gone down to possess. (19) And speak onto him saying, Thus... [ Continue Reading ]
D. THE CONTRITION OF AHAB 21:25-29 TRANSLATION (25) But there was none like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. (26) He erred exceedingly in going after the idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had driven out from... [ Continue Reading ]