Sunday Sermonette: Pack it off and send it to Muncie ....

I ' ve got a maiden aunt there in dire need of more confusion. (No, I don ' t know exactly what that ' s supposed to mean but I had a high school classmate who said it a lot.) In the previous chapter, God told Elijah to appoint Hazael king of Syria and Jehu king of Israel, and between them they ' d kill all but the 7,000 righteous men remaining in Israel. But that is instantly forgotten Benhadad is king of Syria, Ahab is still king of Israel, they fight each other, and God gives Ahab the victory. This is only after some very strange goings on between Ahab and Benhadad. Ahab lets Benhadad go after the war. Then a lion kills a man for refusing to smite a prophet who had asked to be smitten. Then the prophet gets somebody else to smite him, pretended to be a man wounded in battle, then revealed himself to Ahab as a prophet and said that Ahab and Israel would be destroyed because Ahab didn ' t kill Benhadad when he had the chance. Whatev.20 Ben-ha ′dad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samar′ia, and fought against it.2 And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, “Thus says Ben-ha′dad:3 ‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine.’”4 And the king of Israel answered, “As you say, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all that I have.”5 The messengers came again, and said, ...
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