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  https://bible.org/seriespage/11-life-and-times-elijah-prophet-elijah-throws-towel-1-kings-1845-1921 The Journey to Jezreel (1 Kings 18:45–19:2) 18:45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel. 46 Now the LORD energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to […]

Full text of “How Was the Curse on Jericho Fulfilled? (1 Kings 16:34.)”

Where are the grownups? Who’s leading? Am I supposed to lead? What am I supposed to do? Why am I here? Why was I born? Why do bad things have to happen all the time?

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you . . .” —Deuteronomy 7:1 from Wayne Stiles   Canaan was Noah’s grandson through the line of […]

Obadiah hid a hundred prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water. – 1 Kings 18:4 What were the logistics of lugging food to 100 people? Would weekly have been often enough? or was daily necessary? How did Obadiah keep the bad guys from following the food trail to the people he was hiding? […]

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/29/606919098/french-museum-discovers-more-than-half-its-collection-is-forged Forcada, the art historian who first sounded the alarm, noticed buildings that appear in some of the paintings didn’t actually exist in Terrus’ time. One counterfeit painting portrays a building constructed in 1958. Terrus died in 1922.  

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Language Style I looked into several stories written about OT characters. Some use a style of English they imagine was spoken centuries ago. Some sprinkle in Hebrew transliterations. None seems authentic, so until I find a style that does, I’m writing this draft in modern language. Time Period I thought about moving the story to a […]

In April of 2018, a writer near San Francisco taught me the word honorifics. Really. I had to look it up. Then I noticed that I couldn’t find any of my assumed honorifics in the Bible. The closest one seems to be “O King” in Daniel 6:21. Some authorities say we get our idea of […]

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 Jawbone fossil found in Israeli cave resets clock for modern human evolution | The Times of Israel Hey! Check this out, David!! This is one of the caves I suggested to you. How awesome is that?!? נשלח מה-iPhone שלי  תחילת ההודעה שהועברה‏:‏ מאת: Anat Harrel <anatharrel@gmail.com> תאריך: 25 בינואר 2018 בשעה 21:14:40 GMT‎+2‎ אל: Anat Harrel <xroadsisrael@gmail.com> נושא: Jawbone […]

“Ahab not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.” 1 Kings 16:31 Ahab wanted a queen whose father was a priest of Asherah. So Ahab went to the country he mistakenly thought […]

 1 Kings 16:34 In his days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord, which He spoke through Joshua the son of Nun.  

בָּמוֹת Bamoth םבִּלְעָ Balaam בָּלָקBalak רבִּעוּ Beor תחצו Huzoth מוֹאָב Moab עמון Ammon פְּרָת Euphrates רפתו Pethor צִפּוֹר Zippor

In Ahab’s time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken by Joshua son of Nun. 1 Kings 16:34 1 Kings 16 In Ahab’s time, […]

Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him. 1 Kings 16:33  

He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. 1 Kings 16:32  

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/naboth-vineyard-tel-jezreel/ http://www.breakpoint.org/2017/10/discovering-naboths-vineyard/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naboth From the wiki— Roger Williams, the founder of the American colony of Rhode Island and the co-founder of the First Baptist Church in America, wrote about Naboth’s story in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience as an example of how God disfavored Christians from using government force in religious […]

Dear Dave, The pagans were polytheists, so that they worshiped more than one god.  Thus it is not surprising to find Jezebel supporting those who worshiped /  served a multiplicity of gods.  I looked up Asherah in a Bible Dictionary, which gives a good deal more information that may prove helpful.  I hope this helps. […]

Malachi 4: 5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” Would this have anything to do with being the […]

Ἠλίας ἄνθρωπος ἦν ὁμοιοπαθὴς ἡμῖν ὁμοιο – same παθὴς – passions, feelings, nature Pathetic, empathy, sympathy, apathy, pathos To think of Elijah as “a man subject to like passions as we are,” opens a can of … “Maria Kukucova went to prison for her crime of passion.” “Amelia Earhart was passionate about stamp collecting.” “Teddy Roosevelt […]

Elijah’s Hiding Spot Jabesh Milcah’s Valley Ridge – Ridge – Ridge Brook Cherith Tishbe Zadok’s Valley Jabesh lies just east of the Jordan River but still west of Mahanaim Milcah’s Valley is east of Jabesh. A ridge runs east-west and lies south of Jabesh and Milcah’s Valley. Tishbe is south of Jabesh Zadok’s Valley is […]

in 800 BCE in Israel did they do “This little piggy…”? Vickie, my wife, says Hebrews preferred lamb to pig.

It is coming into focus. When I started, people asked who it was for, and I said, for me. If somebody else wants to read it, fine. Lately I’m surprised to hear people assume I’m writing for children. Not so, but hearing it makes me realize my original target is still pretty much it — […]

—  Getting a variety of critiques shows me how the story goes contrary to a variety of ideas (Elijah was old, gruff, celibate, had a quavering voice, called God “Yahweh.”) One by one, I have a chance to head these preconceptions off at the pass and (I hope) keep the reader.

Motivation — Some helpful critiques showed me how Elijah needs motivation, so I added mini stories before Chapter One. Here’s how it starts now.

Thank you for commenting on a chapter! Ann Videtich Cheryl Floyd Danette Bailey Darci Frostick DeWayne Coxon Donald Ingram Doug Smith Erin E. McEndree Gary Endermann Janine Rosche Jennifer Hallmark Joy VanDeMar Judy Harmon Lara Hitchcock Lexie Coxon Loana Ingram Miguel Serveto Nancy Hoorn Nancy Regatz Paul Parker Pauline Stitt Ralph Tilley Randy Harmon Robbie Coxon Shawn Kennedy […]

Drought Drying up the vines? No dew. How does that effect which crops? Prof. Alpert says. And it’s all due to the dew. “In the early morning, dew surrounds the leaves of a plant with moisture, and the plant does not close its stomata. Therefore, it can grow.” Prof. Alpert’s finding are reported in two […]

How is Elijah going to get on that chariot if he has a wife and kids?

Zarephath metalworking Add to this! (Why I made the widow’s dead husband a metalworker) Zarephath (צרפת ṣārĕfáṯ, tsarfát; Σάρεπτα, Sárepta) in Hebrew became the eponym for any smelter or forge, or metalworking shop. In the 1st century CE, the Roman Sarepta, a port about a kilometer to the south[4]is mentioned by Josephus, in Jewish Antiquities (Book VIII, xiii:2) and by Pliny, in Natural History (Book V, 17).

  Pasture composition – The diet of stock has a large influence on their water requirement. Good green pasture can supply all an animal’s water needs. Sheep under these conditions may not need to drink for many weeks. Good pasture allows stock to use water which would normally be unsuitable at higher levels of consumption. […]

They followed the road from Arad down to the edge of the Dead Sea where Masada stands today and turned north. The same caravan route that brought them south to the desert now took them north toward the Galilee. This time, though, instead of hiding in the swamp, sometimes they chatted with the men who […]

King Ahab might have hammered on his gate and lock point longer if he could have seen how future military strategy would focus on Jezreel. 841 BC – The first target of Jehu’s coup was Jezreel City. 350 AD – The Romans fortified Jezreel City to protect their Via Maris trade route along the Israel […]

Running to Jezreel https://bible.org/seriespage/11-life-and-times-elijah-prophet-elijah-throws-towel-1-kings-1845-1921 The Journey to Jezreel (1 Kings 18:45–19:2) 18:45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel. 46 Now the LORD energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the […]

Mezuzah Wiki Deuteronomy 6:9 and 11: 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; The-Contents-of-the-Mezuzah Fact check. Did Hebrews in Elijah’s day really use them? And I ran onto this about Philo. https://toldotyisrael.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/probing-the-earliest-origins-of-tefillin-phylacteries-part-i/  

I wrote Elijah and his family and friends talking about “the Lord,” because the term feels natural to me. When I was a child in the Free Methodist Church in Spring Arbor, Michigan, I sometimes heard adults refer to “Jehovah,” as in the Tyndale Bible and the King James Bible. But usually they said, “the […]

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https://theblazingcenter.com/2015/07/c-s-lewis-on-childrens-stories-for-adults.html On Writing for Children C.S. Lewis “We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are equals. Our superiority consists partly of in commanding other areas, and partly (which is more relevant) in the fact that we are better at telling stories than they are. The child as reader […]

Moloch, Molech, Melek Lev. xviii. 21 Lev. xx. 2-5 I Kings xi. 7 Numbers 25:7 http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10937-moloch-molech Iron or stone furnace? or both?  

Did Hilkiah really live in Hebron? 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34; 35:8 http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7696-hilkiah http://creationwiki.org/Hilkiah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilkiah http://www.christianlibrary.org/authors/John_L_Kachelman_Jr/people-ot/hilkiah.htm    

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“The spot,” Zadok answered. “Their priest looks at a cloud of flies and pretends the shapes in the swarm tell him your future. But Elisheva can tell us — who does something like this with tea leaves?” “The Chinese. They study the shapes made by the leaves[1] in the bottom of their tea cup. They […]

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/reading-the-bible-through-neuroscience/539871/ Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience What was it like inside the brain of an ancient prophet? Sigal Samuel4:50 AM ET James Kugel has been spent his entire scholarly career studying the Bible, but some very basic questions about it still obsess him. What was it about the minds of ancient Israelites that allowed them […]

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/asherahasherim-bible   There is also this poorly written stereotypical thing: From THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOD ILLUSION By Jim K K Wong https://books.google.com/books?id=XWtRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT194&lpg=PT194&dq=asherah+income&source=bl&ots=QPNthDuS4i&sig=2zG1iqZ2l5ZAYYOrjTc2nSLFDzo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdtsqRn6vYAhUBQiYKHTUqAiwQ6AEIDDAB#v=onepage&q=asherah%20income&f=false

Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech haolam, Hamotzi lechem min haaretz.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a heavy responsibility must appreciate a wife who manages the mundane affairs of their home. [It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.] “I delegate the small stuff […]

Reacting to Kill the Devil? Sure, if I kill my enemy, he is gone.  But have I won?  Did I win him over? Since I believe I will continue living in the spirit when my earthly body can no longer live, and since I believe my enemy also continues to live in the spirit, albeit […]

Can I clear this up by seeing “in the ___ year of Asa King of Judah”? If Omri fights with Tibni, son of Ginath for the throne of Israel, how long was that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibni Omri reigned 6 years in Tirzah Then he bought the Hill of Shemer for 150 lb. of silver and named it […]

July 16, 2017, in the lobby of Genesis Church, and on Facebook, I asked … “Do you think of Elijah as married or single?” 1- Don’t know 10 – Single 1 – I only think of Elijah as in a chariot of fire. 1 – The widow of Zarephath was his common law wife. 1 […]

David Your story book “Elijah-one of the ordinary people just like us” this is awesome! There are many stories in the Bible I have not read. You have done your best to make it easy to understand and easy to remember the historical events of the Kingdom of Israel. I know you spent a lot […]

Both my grandfathers were pastors and then superintendents in the FM church, and when I first read “there were giants in the land in those days,” I thought of my two grandfathers, who occupied gigantic space in my young mind. These men were both very conservative in their views. 1. Whisker power After Grandmother died, […]

My grandfather Ingram played shinny (field hockey with a tin can and sticks, named after the part of our anatomy it punished) with us and took us fishing and told us stories his father had told him about the 1849 wagon train to the gold fields in California. My picture of him is energy, positive, […]

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/15cad80e1a080f7b Same goes for Masada. I really enjoyed reading an article that pointed out how the only way we have any idea of what happened on top of that meas is a story written by Josephus. On the mesa itself is no evidence — none — of any Jewish colony or any siege or any […]

By arriving at Masada 800 years too early, Elijah missed huge building projects. 1 Kings 19:3 “Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,…” to Beersheba “Let’s take the Jericho road up, ‘Lijah. I want to see Jerusalem.” “Not this trip, Ira. Our […]

2 Chronicles 21:12 – Letter from Elijah: King Jeroham, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, “You have gone far out of the path travelled by King Jehoshaphat and King Asa. You have put your feet in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. Just like your father-in-law, Ahab, made whoremongers of the […]