The Bible Study Podcast, episode 182. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues with the study of the prophet Elijah.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. This is going to be the second to the last in this series on

Elijah. This is going to be a five-part series, as it turns out. We're going to be focusing

primarily this week on First Kings 21, but I want to tell you a little information about the

chapter's previous, 20, and the chapter after 22. Now, Elijah doesn't appear in those chapters,

which is why we're going to

skip them pretty much. In chapter 20, one of the other neighbors of Israel goes and fights against

them, King bin Haddad of Aram comes against them, and proclaims that your silver and your gold

are mine and the best of your wives and children are mine, and God sends a different messenger. God sends a different prophet other than Elijah to say, no, don't agree to this.

That's ridiculous. Don't do that. And that you're going to in fact win a victory. And so Ahab, in fact,

wins two victories in two succeeding years over these invading people. So even when God is not happy with Ahab, God is still

protecting his people Israel, even though they don't think they are his people. So God still has

faithfulness to them, even if they are unfaithful to him, at least at this point. And so,

and God is still using other prophets besides Elijah.

And that also happens in Chapter 22. We'll see you in a minute. But in Chapter 21, we get this

story. Now, sometime later, there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Nabath,

the Jesreolite. The vineyard was in Jesrio, close to the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.

Ahab said to Nabath, let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden since it is close to my

palace. In exchange, I will give you a better vineyard, or if you prefer, I will pay you whatever

it is worth. But Naboth replied, the Lord forbid that I should give you the

inheritance of my fathers. So Ahab went home, sullen and angry, because Nabath, the Jesraelite, said,

I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.

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