Hey, this is Shelby and Paul, and today we're wrapping up the book of First Kings.

We have our final three chapters, chapters 19 through 22 that we're talking through today.

Paul, take us through these chapters.

Yeah, so we're at the end of First Kings, but we're not

really done yet because, as I mentioned in the very first episode on this book, these books are

a cohesive whole, both first and second Kings. So it doesn't really feel all that conclusive,

but the story is going to continue tomorrow. But we do have a lot going on still in these chapters,

and we get a few different episodes.

We get the aftermath of Elijah's encounter with the priests of the all and Jezebel pursuing him.

And one critical thing that happens in this episode is Elisha is appointed as Elijah's successor.

So we'll see more of Elisha tomorrow and in Second Kings. We also get a battle

between Israel and a foreign nation of Aram. We have an episode where Jezebel does some more conniving

to get ownership of this vineyard. And then three years later, that judgment that Elijah speaks

upon Jezumel in that episode comes through the King of Judah, Jehoshaphat.

Yeah, that is quite the list of things happening in these final three chapters. So let's start at the

beginning, because it starts with this encounter between God and Elijah that is often quoted,

and might be one of the more familiar kind of scenes that we walk through in these chapters.

What's happening there?

Yeah, so we just had this big moment for Elijah where he defeats the priests of Baal,

and God consumes this altar with fire, and it's this crazy mountaintop moment.

And then he flees.

And Ahab's wife, Jezebel, is upset, and so he's trying to run from her.

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