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🗓️ 29 June 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:07.0 | Today we finished our 16th book of the Bible. |
0:16.2 | Congratulations! |
0:17.6 | We spent some time in the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah |
0:20.9 | today. |
0:21.9 | But we start out in the North with Wicked King Ahab. |
0:25.2 | Yesterday God sent Elijah to pronounce death on Ahab at his family, but then showed mercy |
0:29.2 | on Ahab when he repented. |
0:31.2 | When we open today we see the kings of the two kingdoms make an alliance. |
0:36.0 | They want to capture Raymoth Gilead, a city that was taken by Syria. |
0:40.6 | Before they put a strategy together, Jehoshaphat asked that they can seek God for counsel. |
0:45.0 | Smart move. |
0:46.0 | Ahab brings in 400 prophets and they all say God will grant them success. |
0:51.1 | Then Jehoshaphat is like, but are there any other prophets we can ask? |
0:54.9 | They just ask 400 prophets who are all in agreement, so why does he need another opinion? |
0:59.9 | If 400 out of 400 dentists agree on the best toothpaste, I'm not looking for the opinion |
1:03.5 | of 401. |
1:04.5 | I'm just buying it. |
1:05.9 | But the thing is, and this is only kind of obvious in the original text, these prophets |
1:10.4 | weren't inquiring of Yahweh. |
1:12.7 | They were almost certainly the same 400 prophets of Asherah mentioned in 1 Kings 18. |
1:18.7 | Remember how Ahab had 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah when Elijah called |
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