This is the Bible Book Club. I'm Heather and I'm Susan. And we're in the book of first kings. Welcome to the club.

In our last episode, we began the journey through the list of kings that reigned over the northern and the southern kingdoms.

If you would like to keep track of

all the kings in Judah and Israel, we do have a very good chart of the good and evil kings

in the show notes. So go there and check that out. It is really helpful, especially if you are

a visual person like me. It helps you lay it all out. So, but in chapter 13, Jeroboam is king over Israel, but he's not

doing a great job. So the Lord sends a man of God to warn him in front of everyone. While he is

sacrificing on the altar, he had made to the gods he had introduced to Israel. Which he wasn't

supposed to do. Which he wasn't supposed to be doing. Only priests could

offer sacrifices, not kings. His hand shrivels up and the altar splits into, but it has no effect on

Jerbo. He goes down as the most evil king to date. Then there was this kind of strange story about

the poor man of God who gets tricked by an old

prophet into staying in the area. And as a result, he dies. And the old prophet feels bad and buries

the man of God in his own tomb. Then we also read chapter 14, where years later, King Jeroboam's

son is super sick. And he tries to trick the prophet Aijah into telling his wife

if he will die. Well, Ahi Jha is not fooled and gives Jerobam bad news about his son, his entire family,

not just the son and his dynasty, because Jerobam has done more evil than anyone before him.

Exactly. So the title of this episode is not all kings are created

evil and we are going to have one good king in here. Not all but a lot. Not many, but we're going to

get to one. All right. So Jeroboam was in the northern kingdom of Israel. So meanwhile, back in

Judah, the southern kingdom is still under the reign of Solomon's son, Rehobom.

Scene 1. The Death of Rehobom, the First Southern King. Chapter 14, continuing in verse 21,

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