October 30, 2025
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Reading along with us in 1 Kings and Acts? Here’s today’s reading:
1 Kings 16 (NIV)
1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani concerning Baasha: 2“I lifted you up from the dust and appointed you ruler over my people Israel, but you followed the ways of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin and to arouse my anger by their sins. 3 So I am about to wipe out Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat.……Continue Reading
This is a depressing chapter as each ruler gets progessively worse right down to Ahab who likely sacrificed his own sons in a building sacrifice. It seemed like each ruler was described as “having done more evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all others before” Sad not just personally for these men but for the people they were leading down these dark paths of sin, evil, and idolatry.
More and more bad kings in Israel. When power is the basis of choosing a king, then instability and inconsistency is sure to follow. And yet no one concludes that maybe the best way to deal with leading Israel is to turn to Israel’s God. Because independent of any worldly success or failure, the only thing that matters is what God thinks and what God wills. And when things are bad, you might imagine they couldn’t even become worse. And yet the nature of evil is just that. It goes from bad to worse. And the degeneration of these kings of Israel are just that, ending in the rotten Ahab.
1 kings 16
Psalm 17; 1 Kings 16; 2 Chronicles 32; Nahum 1-3
It’s interesting to see how many different dynasties came in and out in Israel (even just in this chapter alone), and all the while the line of David stayed strong in Judah. God will and truly does keep his promises.
1 Kings 16
Boy most of these kings are real beauties, huh.
1 Kings 16
1 Kings 16
It’s like a broken record of kings!
Bad kings.
The curse of Joshua upon anyone who rebuilt Jericho is fulfilled.