This week BibleWorm reads I Kings 12:1-17 and 25-29. We are just a couple of generations after King David, and boy howdy, kingship in Israel is not going great. As David’s grandson Reheboam steps to the throne, we see parallels with the stories of Pharaoh in Egypt: a king who uses forced labor to control people, and who seeks power and dominance above all else, even when that is politically impractical. And then we meet Jeroboam, who seems to smartly identify a real vulnerability for his community, but then tries to patch it with a sort of quick fix borrowed from another religious culture - definitely a no-no. Both kings consult advisors, but neither consult God. This is pretty much exactly what the deuteronomistic history warned about.
Episode 523 Sending the Disciples (Mark 6:1-30)
Episode 522 Healing Interrupted (Mark 5:21-43)
Episode 521 Making the Demons Tremble (Mark 5:1-20)
Episode 520 The Parables of Jesus (Mark 4:1-34)
Episode 519 Their Faith Has Made You Well (Mark 2:1-22)
Episode 518 Following the Call (Mark 1:1-20)
Episode 517 The Christmas Story (Luke 2:1-20) SPECIAL EPISODE
Episode 516 The Birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5-25 & 57-80)
Episode 515 Rebuilding from the Ruins (Ezra 1:1-4 and 3:1-13)
Episode 514 Comfort, O Comfort My People (Isaiah 40:1-11)
Episode 513 Hope Against Hope (Jeremiah 33:1-18)
Episode 512 Finding the Torah (2 Kings 22:1-20 and 23:1-3)
Episode 511 The Song of the Vineyard and the Stump of Jesse (Isaiah 5:1-7 and 11:1-9)
Episode 510 God as Parent (Hosea 11:1-9)
Episode 509 Elijah and the Prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:17-39)
Episode 507 Praising the Lord (2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6:1-15, and Psalm 150)
Episode 506 Where You Go I Will Go (Ruth 1:1-17 and 4:13-16)
Episode 505 Listen, O Israel! (Deuteronomy 5:1-21& 6:4-9)
Episode 504 Responding to the Call (Exodus 1:8-2:10 and 3:1-15)
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