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Ahab: I really want that vineyard, but Naboth won't sell it to me. Guess I'll mope forever about it.
Jezebel: Aw, Ahab, are you the king or what? Throw a party for him and when he shows up, kill him.

Elijah solves a drought by first going to a brook where he is fed by ravens and drinks the brook, which dries up. He then meets a woman whose son is dying, and he revives him with a prayer.

Elijah solves a drought by first going to a brook where he is fed by ravens and drinks the brook, which dries up. He then meets a woman whose son is dying, and he revives him with a prayer.

Another story that reminds me of the pharaoh in Genesis being visited by Abraham. There, Pharaoh is punished for acting on a lie when he didn't know better. Here, a "man of God" is killed by lions that God sends when he acts on a lie told to him by a stranger. The crime: eating bread and drinking water. The actual crime: simple disobedience. Stay in line, people. God loves you. But he'll kill you. Watch yourself.

We gotta talk about the wisdom and judgment of Solomon in Chapter 3 sometime... Chapter 4 it's all lineage. Chapter 5 talks about peace in the land under Solomon's rule and a pact to build a temple between Solomon and Hiram. 6 and 7 describe that temple in back-half-of-Exodus levels of excruciating detail.

The first two chapters concern the succession of the throne following King David's death. Solomon and Adonijah duke it out politically at first, but naturally it leads to assassination. One of Adonijah's confidants, Shimei, is exiled, but gets murdered as punishment for leaving to the city of Gath to reclaim some servants.