They answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. 2 Kings 1:8
That a foreigner could feel such love. —Pierre Villey on Grace Norton @waisberg
They discovered who the independent people were. And they went about eliminating them. —Solzhenitsyn @waisberg
The Lᴏʀᴅ hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets [experts, intelligence officials]. 1 Kings 22:23
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house. 1 Kings 21:29
This is not the first time in the Bible that the son suffers for the father’s sin.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lᴏʀᴅ, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? 1 Kings 21:19
This, though Jezebel did the deed.
Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. 1 Kings 20:42
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. 1 Kings 19:18
Christ didn’t raise man by becoming man, but by being crucified by man.
If the Lᴏʀᴅ be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. 1 Kings 18:21
When Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lᴏʀᴅ, Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. 1 Kings 18:4
(Obadiah, though Ahab’s steward, feared God.)
And the Lᴏʀᴅ heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 1 Kings 17:22
Asa took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 1 Kings 15:12
I like the phrase slept with his fathers. It makes death seem less lonely.
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 1 Kings 11:3
Descartes once constructed a robot in the form of a girl.
The Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded him that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lᴏʀᴅ commanded. 1 Kings 11:10
Rainbow sent to us from Brooklyn.
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? 1 Kings 8:27
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.