Solomon broke the laws given by Moses for Israel’s kings. 1 Kings records his rise and fall with five cycles that recapitulate the Torah’s covenant pattern in a blaze...
How is the Christian to answer the modern proponents of polygamy, since it is not condemned in the texts commonly used to support the case...
Was Elisha’s plowing with twelve yoke of oxen (1 Kings 19:19-21) something out of the ordinary? If not, why is the number of oxen mentioned? Elisha...
Like all the best stories, the strange account of the disobedient prophet in 1 Kings 13 says so much more because of what it does...
Like the books of Samuel and Chronicles, the book of Kings is so long and detailed that it was divided into two scrolls. But...
The command against boiling a kid in its mother’s milk is an enigma designed to horrify us as we chew upon it.