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1 Kings—Power, Politics, and the Hope of the World is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of 1 Kings tells the stories of 14 different kings and the power at play throughout the monarchies of ancient Israel and Judah. Designed to help modern readers—especially pastors and Bible teachers—understand and apply the message of 1 Kings to their own lives, this commentary by experienced Bible expositor John Woodhouse walks through the text verse by verse. Part of Crossway’s...

began at Mount Sinai/Horeb in the days of Moses, he will bring to completion. Elijah may have (with good reason) given up on the people of Israel, but the Lord had not. As Samuel had put it generations earlier, “For the LORD will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself” (1 Samuel 12:22). The people of Israel had a future, and therefore Elijah had work to do. And the LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness
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