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🗓️ 28 June 2024
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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. Congratulations. We spent some time in the |
0:18.4 | Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah today, but we start |
0:22.3 | out in the north with Wicked King Ahab. |
0:24.3 | Yesterday God sent Elijah to pronounce death on Ahab at his family but then showed |
0:28.8 | mercy on Ahab when he repented. When we open today we see the kings of the two kingdoms make an alliance. |
0:35.0 | They want to capture Raymoth Gilead, a city that was taken by Syria. |
0:40.0 | Before they put a strategy together, |
0:42.0 | Jeho Schofat asked that they can seek God for counsel. |
0:45.0 | Smart move. |
0:46.0 | Ahab brings in 400 prophets, |
0:48.0 | and they all say God will grant them success. |
0:51.0 | Then Jeho Shafat is like, |
0:52.0 | but are there any other profits we can ask? |
0:54.0 | They just ask 400 profits who are all in agreement, so why does he need another opinion? |
0:59.0 | If 400 out of 400 dentists agree on the best toothpaste, I'm not looking for the opinion of 401, I'm just buying it. |
1:05.9 | But the thing is, and this is only kind of obvious in the original text, these profits weren't inquiring |
1:11.1 | of Yawe. |
1:12.8 | They were almost certainly the same 400 prophets of Ashara mentioned in 1st Kings 18. |
1:18.4 | Remember how Ahab had 450 prophets of Ba'al and 400 prophets of Ashara when Elijah called him up to the showdown on Mount Carmel |
1:26.1 | But only the 450 prophets of Ba'al showed up. |
1:29.4 | Elijah killed them, but we never heard anything from the 400 prophets of a sharer. |
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