Elijah Flees Jeebel
1Ki 19:3-4 LSB - [3] And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his young man there. [4] But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers."
1Ki 19:7 LSB - [7] And the angel of Yahweh came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you."
Elijah at Horeb
1Ki 19:17-18 LSB - [17] "And it will be that the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death. [18] "Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him."
Elijah Puts the Mantle on Elisha
1Ki 19:19, 21 LSB -
[19] So he went from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him. ...
[21] So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave [it] to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him.
Ahab Wars with Aram
Israel Fights the Arameans
1Ki 20:28 LSB - [28] Then a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because the Arameans have said, "Yahweh is a god of [the] mountains, but He is not a god of [the] valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'"
1Ki 20:34 LSB - [34] And [Ben-hadad] said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will return, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria." [Ahab said], "And I will let you go with this covenant." So he cut a covenant with him and let him go.
A Prophecy Enrages Ahab
1Ki 20:42 LSB - [42] And he said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have let go out of [your] hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'"
Ahab Takes Possession of Naboth’s Vineyard
1Ki 21:16 LSB - [16] Now it happened that when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
Yahweh Speaks Against Ahab
1Ki 21:19 LSB - [19] "And you shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Have you murdered and also taken possession?"' And you shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours."'"
Ahab Humbles Himself
1Ki 21:25-26 LSB - [25] Surely there was no one who sold himself to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. [26] And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
1Ki 21:27 LSB - [27] Now it happened when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.
1Ki 21:29 LSB - [29] "Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, [but] I will bring the evil upon his house in his son's days."
Ahab and the False Prophets
Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab
The Death of Ahab
Jehoshaphat Reigns over Judah
1Ki 22:43 LSB - [43] And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn away from it, doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
