Ahaziah of Israel

times he must make Micaiah swear to tell nothing but the truth (22:16). Micaiah then comes clean concerning what the Lord actually said: Israel has no legitimate king and its soldiers should stay home (22:17). You can probably imagine Ahab is upset by this saying. He affirms his suspicion that Micaiah always speaks evil about him (22:18). Micaiah, however, does not stop speaking when he sees Ahab get frustrated and issues his…

given opportunities that only God could have created. Some individuals may have started out hanging with the crowd but at some point in their life, they were sent into a place of isolation almost as if they had vanished from the earth. A story, which describes another called person, is the story of Joash. Athaliah (the daughter of Israel’s King Ahab and Queen Jezebel) had married Jehoram (son of Judah’s King Jehoshaphat) to cement a treaty (2 Chronicles 18:1). Athaliah and Jehoram’s son was…

KING AHAB Introduction This essay is a description of King Ahab through biblical and extra biblical evidence and the extent to which these sources inform our understating of the bible. The biblical sources will include: Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Spirit Filled Bible, NKJV and Biblegate.com. The extra biblical sources used will be 1 & 2 Kings. NIVAC (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996) and The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopaedia of the Bible. An artist impression of King Ahab BIBLICA TEXT Ahab the son of…

DYNASTIC INSTABILITY IN ISRAEL Throughout its history, Israel has had foreign influences, religious upheavals, and assassinations of the kings, causing severe instability within the nation. Amongst this unrest, it is no wonder a stable line of succession could form. All these factors contributed to the dynastic instability referenced in the biblical record and other sources. This is significant as the dynastic instability inevitably leads to fall of Israel and it’s capture by Assyria. Unlike…

30 One of these is the Merenpetah Stele discovered in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in 1896AD, which documents the conquests by Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah, reigning from 1213 to 1203BC. Also known as the Israel Stele and the Victory Stele of Merneptah, this stone lists the victories over the various cities, regions and tribes and regions that lived in Syria and Canaan with one of them being the Israelites. To date this is the earliest and oldest non-biblical evidence of the…

Primary Struggle in War Elie Wiesel in Night, is a young Jewish boy who faces atrocious experiences in his life at the death camps during the Holocaust. He declares a statement in the book regarding his faith during these horrid times. He states, “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed.” The quote provided perfectly portrays how Elie, and many others people during this era, struggled with faith. Elie, like many others, questioned why…

Dehumanization in the Memoir Night The human race is classified as an animal, although under normal circumstances, humans do not operate in the way that an animal does. The people in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night are an exception. During the Holocaust the Nazis associated the Jewish race as inferior to wild beasts and treated them as such in widely spread concentration camps throughout Eastern Europe in which German soldiers gassed, burned, beat, and shot thousands of Jews every day. Wiesel…

he hears the other Jews speaking words of praise, Wiesel questions, “‘Blessed be God’s name…’ Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm. Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?’” (67). He is now completely rebelling against the beliefs that the other Jews may still have and are expressing. Wiesel has written many other books about the Jews experiences…

The rule of three is applied in this same place of his speech when he says, “You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it.” These devices show the importance of at least having some emotion, even if it is a negative one, as opposed to no emotion at all. Additionally, by using a series of rhetorical questions, Wiesel encourages the listener to think about the insanity of people’s actions during that time. Combined, these devices work on the audience to evoke their emotions of one of the most…

Over the years, Jewish faith has started to be lost because of the hardships faced in the holocaust. The thought of there being a god that protects them slowly diminished due to the fact they had to face all of these tortures. Many still believe in the “almighty god” that is supposed to protect you while others gave up in the “supposed god” that protects you from all of the evils of the world and give good things to those that have done nothing wrong and followed him wholeheartedly. Also, the…