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For such an apostate king as Ahab and his wife Jezebel, at this time the great prophet Elijah shows up in Scripture (I Kings 17). For their sins, Elijah warns that there will be a drought in the land over the next three years. Then God sends Elijah to the wilderness where ravens bring him bread, hiding out from Ahab’s threats on his life. Later God sends him on to a town called Zarephath where a widow and her son sheltered and fed him while he was in hiding. When the drough

There is an old movie from 1943 called “Guadalcanal Dairy.” It was just a year after the actual battle for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific, and it was part of Hollywood’s effort to portray us as capable of winning the war if everyone played their part. I remember one scene where three soldiers in a foxhole were running out of ammunition, so one of them went back to get more. He picks up the ammunition boxes, then notices something boiling on the fire. “Is that coffee, Mac?

Jeremiah 9: 10-11. For the mountains, I will take up weeping and wailing and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the animals have fled and are gone. I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitants. The NRSV does not begin like this, but

That pretty much says it, doesn’t it? Jezebel! That name has become a symbol of evil that begins in the Bible and weaves its way through Jewish and Christian folklore. Jezebel has become a symbol of a woman who is sexually aggressive yet shameless. We will examine that turn at the end of this mini-series about Jezebel. Who was Jezebel? Does she have a story of her own? Does she deserve the meme that she has become? Let’s start at the beginning and work our way through the m