Devotions from 1 Kings

Passage Read: 1 Kings 2-5 Meditation Verse: 2:40 Shimei had agreed to the terms to never again leave Jerusalem, but perhaps after three years he'd forgotten why he always remained in Jerusalem. Or maybe he thought just one little trip to fetch his runaway slaves…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 6-9 Meditation Verses: 8:38-42 Whenever trouble comes and people pray to the Lord for deliverance, each man knowing his own heart and his own afflictions, then may the Lord forgive and deal with each one according to his deeds, that each…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 10-13 Meditation Verses: 13:16-18 How easy it is to doubt a word of God, especially when it makes my life a little inconvenient or uncomfortable. Scripture doesn't say how long the journey was for this prophet from Judah, but he was…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 14-17 Meditation Verses: 15:3-4 The Lord is gracious even to sinners, but it is usually not because of them, but because of a promise He made to a previous generation. Indeed, His loyalty to Israel is not so much because of…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 18-21 Meditation Verse: 20:28 Elijah succeeds against the prophets of Baal, then twice the Lord gives Israel success over the Arameans, all to show Ahab that the Lord is God. Yet Ahab makes no changes. Three significant miracles and Ahab continues…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 2-5 Meditation Verses: 2:40-43 After the years of living in Jerusalem, knowing he wasn't to leave under penalty of death, Shimei left the city in pursuit of two runaway slaves. Solomon's men knew when he had gone and knew when he…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 6-9 Meditation Verses: 9:4-7 The obedience of Solomon and his sons allows the Lord to keep His promise to David, and allows Him to bless the nation. But if he or his sons disobey, the Lord will bring trouble on them…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 10-13 Meditation Verses: 11:6-10 The Law of God for Israel did not allow for freedom of religion in the sense that people could worship any god they desired. God commanded that Israel as a nation and a people worship only the…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 14-17 Meditation Verses: 14:15-16 The Lord ends up casting Israel out of their land because of the sins of Jeroboam. He led the people to worship images of a golden calf, hearkening back to Israel's exodus from Egypt and Aaron's golden…

Passage Read: 1 Kings 18-21 Meditation Verse: 21:29 It is hard to tell whether Ahab himself is so evil or is it all his wife? He seems like such a child at times, vexed and sullen, pouting on his bed. Every now and then he…