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 241 (Replay) Everything is Vapor (Ecclesiastes 1:1-3 and 8:16-9:10)
Episode 240 The Fruit of the Spirit (Acts 2:1-4 & Galatians 5:16-26)
Episode 239 Unity in Christ (Galatians 3:1-9, 23-29)
Episode 238 Faith and Torah (Galatians 1:13-17 & 2:11-21)
Episode 237 The Council at Jerusalem (Acts 15:1-21)
Episode 236 Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26-39)
Episode 235 The Stoning of Stephen (Acts 6:1-7:2, 44-60)
Episode 234 The Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35)
Episode 233 Resurrection and Remembrance (Luke 24:1-12)
Episode 232 Good Friday SPECIAL EPISODE (Luke 23:32-49)
Episode 231 Palm Sunday without the Palms (Luke 19:29-44)
Episode 230 The Blind Man and Zacchaeus (Luke 18:31-19:10)
Episode 229 The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)
Episode 228 Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, Lost Son (Luke 15:1-32)
Episode 227 The Parable of the Fig Tree (Luke 13:1-9, 31-35)
Episode 226 Eternal Life and Truly Living (Luke 10:25-42)
Episode 225 Ash Wednesday SPECIAL EPISODE (Luke 9:51-62)
Episode 224 The Mount of Transfiguration (Luke 9:28-45)
Episode 223 Of Centurions and Widows (Luke 7:1-17)
Episode 222 Sabbath Controversies (Luke 6:1-16)
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