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🗓️ 29 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:12.8 | Today we finished our 16th book of the Bible. Congratulations. We spent some time in the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah today, |
0:21.6 | but we start out in the north with wicked king Ahab. Yesterday, God sent Elijah to pronounce death on |
0:27.2 | Ahab at his family, but then showed mercy on Ahab when he repented. When we opened today, we see |
0:32.6 | the kings of the two kingdoms make an alliance. They want to capture Ramoth Gilead, a city that was taken by Syria. |
0:40.3 | Before they put a strategy together, Jehoshaphat asked that they can seek God for counsel. |
0:44.9 | Smart move. Ahab brings in 400 prophets, and they all say God will grant them success. Then Jehoshaphat |
0:51.7 | is like, but are there any other prophets we can ask? They just ask 400 |
0:55.9 | prophets who were all in agreement, so why does he need another opinion? If 400 out of 400 |
1:00.9 | dentists agree on the best toothpaste, I'm not looking for the opinion of 401. I'm just buying it. |
1:05.7 | But the thing is, and this is only kind of obvious in the original text, these prophets weren't |
1:10.6 | inquiring of Yahweh. |
1:12.6 | They were almost certainly the same 400 prophets of Asherah mentioned in 1st Kings 18. |
1:18.3 | Remember how Ahab had 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Ashera |
1:22.9 | when Elijah called him up to the showdown on Mount Carmel? |
1:26.3 | But only the 450 prophets of Baal |
1:28.6 | showed up. Elijah killed them, but we never heard anything from the 400 prophets of Asherah. |
1:34.1 | So these are almost certainly those prophets. Wicked King Ahab, even though he repented under the |
1:40.0 | consequence of death, doesn't seem to fully grasp the concept of following Yahweh. And wise |
1:45.4 | King Jehoshaphat seems to be discerning about that, so he wants a godly opinion. Ahab says there's a |
1:51.8 | prophet named Micaiah, but he doesn't like Micaiah because he never says what he wants to hear. |
1:57.4 | Some commentators believe it was Micahia who intentionally got himself beat up before he talked to Ahab yesterday. |
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