Sunday Sermonette: My eyes glaze over

I warned you that the Book of Kings gets very tedious. Here we have yet more endless recitation of faceless rulers -- we learn nothing about them but their names -- who anger God and have their families massacred. For the details, we are repeatedly referred to other books, that have been lost. Not much to say about this, and I don ' t know what the point of it is supposed to be. It ' s interesting that Melville chose to name his obsessed captain Ahab, which is not a name anyone would ordinarily give to a child. BTW KJV translates " He did not leave him a single male " in verse 11 as " He left not one who pisseth against the wall, " which I presume is the literal translation, and is a locution used frequently. But evidently the RSV translators found it too crude. The last paragraph is a reference to a prophecy in Joshua 6:26: " Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. "16 And the word of theLord came to Jehu the son of Hana ′ni against Ba′asha, saying,2 “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jerobo′am, and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Ba ′asha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jerobo′am the son of Nebat.4&nbs...
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