You're going to have this three and a half year drought and then you're going to have this remarkable provision for these people who, you know, one effect of verse 12, her saying, as Yahweh your God lives, I think this is an indicator that she knows Yahweh, even though she lives in Zarifath.

And so the people who know Yahweh are going to be provisioned even through a

prophetically induced drought brought on by the wickedness of the king.

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Special episode today.

Why?

First King 17, we're covering Elijah, and you promised off air last time that you would sing

these of the days of Elijah on the podcast for us.

Thank you.

That will be in the postscript.

Today we're going to talk about First Kings chapter 17.

Last episode, we ran through some kings of both Israel and Judah, who were both good and bad, though of course mostly bad.

And by the end of First Kings chapter 16, the big bad, you might say, of this section of scripture has been introduced, which is King Ahab of Israel, and also in parentheses, his wife,

Jezebel. Today, as I said, we're going to do First King 17, and what we're going to meet the

hero of this segment of First Kings, the protagonist, whose name is Elijah.

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