When my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there & leaneth on my hand, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: the Lᴏʀᴅ pardon thy servant in this thing. And Elisha said unto Naaman, Go in peace.2 Kings 5:18, 19
Wow!
If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? 2 Kings 5:13
Do what is asked of you, great or little.
A plus for unnecessary worrying is the happiness one feels when one learns that the worry was unnecessary.
“Is life worth living?” Its root meaning, surely, is personal, subjective, solitary. There is a sense in which life is experienced, has always been experienced, and will continue to be experienced, by only one person: the living person. —Jacques Barzun
There is as much difference between me and my selves as between me and others.
After Montaigne, “Of the Inconsistency of our Actions”, quoted by Marcel Conche, quoted by @waisberg
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