Hey, this is Shelby and Paul, and you are listening to the A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace podcast.

We're going through First Kings. Today we're in chapters 16 through 18. Paul, can you help us break down these chapters?

We start following Elijah here.

And so we get a lot out of his story in these couple of chapters.

Can you break it down for us?

Yeah, I love these chapters so much.

I love the character of Elijah.

And he's a critical figure in the biblical story, not just here in First and Second

Kings, but we'll also be later as well as we'll see. So he kind of

seemingly comes out of nowhere and immediately just starts speaking the word of the Lord to the king

Ahab here, declaring that there will be no rain in the land. And following God's command, he flees Ahab

and sits in the wilderness and receives bread and meat from birds.

But then God tells him to go and find this widow in the wilderness.

And I'll come back to that story in a moment.

Before we're turning to Ahab and having a showdown with the pagan priests,

that's a really, really almost like out of a movie, this crazy moment.

So we have this widow, though,

that I kind of want to talk about. And God says, hey, this widow is going to provide for you.

But when Elijah comes and says, hey, can you feed me? She says, well, actually, I'm starving. And all I have is a handful of flour and a little bit of oil, so I can't do it.

But Elijah's like, okay, no, just go and make the food.

Just go do it.

And when she goes, she finds that the flour doesn't run out and the oil doesn't run out.

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