This language in verse 16 go down to the vineyard of Naboth, the Jesreelite, to take possession of it.

This is the language of the conquest.

This is the language of the possession of the land.

This is how the Lord speaks to Israel when there to take possession of the land.

So you can see this is a complete inversion of biblical history.

And you have Jezebel setting herself up in the place of Yahweh and giving that land to a wicket.

Welcome to episode 131 of Bible Talk podcast brought you by Nine Marks.

Nine Marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches.

For more, you can visit Nine Marks.org.

My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends, Sam O'Madi, Jim Hamilton.

And guys, if you would like to support this kind of work, you should go to nine marks.

com.

And I understand that we just got a fancy new website so

oh is that up uh well let's see let us see live this scintillating well I went to nine marks

at Oregon it says temporarily under maintenance but certainly by the time that this podcast releases

it will be up so cool enjoy uh the new riches at the newly designed nine marks.

It's very sleek. It is very sleek. You've seen it already? Yeah, it's black and white.

It's kind of an apple-like. We're entering our modern phase. Yeah. Okay. So last week we talked

about the bluster of Ben Haddad, the king of syria we talked about king

ahab's aiken moment you you guys sort of made several connections between that passage first king's 20

and what's going on at the beginning of joshua and then we talked about the the temptation of

unjust mercy about how king ahab sort of let ben haddad go. We talked about how the king of Syria was

...