Asa of Judah

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 Omri ascended to the throne of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah (1 Kings 16:29) a Ahab reigned over the northern Kingdom for twenty-two years with his capital in Samaria. He married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians…

The Hebraic worldview is exemplified throughout the narratives of the prophets. By examining the actions and values of the Hebrew people, we can see the progression of their worldview and how it changed over time. The Hebrew worldview is commonly divided into three aspects: Pre-Exilic, Exilic, and Post-Exilic. Each frame for worldview is based upon whether it was before, during, or after Babylonian rule. The Pre-Exilic worldview began with King Saul and continued until Israel was controlled by…

origin. He was also from the line of Abraham that indicate that he was a Jew. Matthew 1:1-16 emphasise all the generations from Abraham to David that consist of fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon continues another fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ the last fourteen generations of jesus. The first Generation Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. And Judah…

Omri’s followers overthrow Tibni’s and he became king of Israel. This division within in already divided kingdom is almost comical, but it really emphasizes how stubborn the Israelites were and that they are a people with no exception to the human desire for power. It is also important to note that almost every time a new ruler comes to power during this era of the split Israeli nation, they are referenced by how many years the king of the other side of the nation has been in reign, so here in 1…

with 700 princess-wives and 300 concubines that cost him his kingdom and temple once he dies. Rehoboam and Jeroboam fight over the kingdom of Israel. Rehoboam oppresses the people with whips and heavy taxation which forces a rebellion so he flees the city. Whereas, Jeroboam is made the new king over Israel and Rehoboam is made ruler over Judah. One-day Jeroboam is offering incense at the altar when a man of God from Judah walks up to the altar and starts proclaiming against the altar per…

In this essay I am going to be discussing who killed King Ahab. Some important questions that arise in relation to this narrative are the questions of, who deceives whom? How is the character of the prophet complicated and the nature of the prophecies complicated by this narrative? And how is the character of God complicated by this narrative? These are the questions that I will be trying to clarify in this essay. Noted in 1 Kings 22, the historian tells us that ‘For three years Aram and Israel…

The Transcontinental Railroad The Transcontinental Railroad was a legendary Civil Engineering feat that created an entirely new way of settlement and trade in the West that had hardly been imagined. The Railroad changed the life of the travelers and settlers in America. A trip from the East Coast to the West Coast that used to take six months then took a mere seven days. Without the intelligence of great men like Theodore Judah and Grenville Dodge, who were Chief Engineers of the Railroad, the…

route not only to the Mississippi, but even all the way to the Pacific (Bain 16). The idea resurfaced several times in the following years. Asa Whitney was the first man to lobby Congress for funding of this railroad in 1845, but the plan was tabled by the House Committee on Roads and Canals. The idea may have been tabled, but it was not dead. In 1853, Senator Jefferson Davis assigned army exploration parties to determine what would be the best route for a railroad, but not everyone in Congress…

Hartwell Carver’s mind until Asa Whitney and Theodore Judah continuously worked towards creating the Railroad. As a result of Congress giving grants to railway companies, Carver, Whitney, and Judah were able to make plans for the Transcontinental Railroad. There were hundreds of train tracks connecting and intersecting the Northern and Southern United States, however there was no easy way to travel to the newly opened Western lands, thus the need for the creation of the Transcontinental…

coast. During this same time, settlers were beginning to move westward and a large sum of gold miners began to move across the United States in search for gold. Neither the journey by land or sea was particularly desirable. The land journey is both difficult and risky and travelling by sea is very long. Travelling by sea would take six months to go all the way around South America to avoid likely diseases by crossing the Isthmus of Panama (“Transcontinental Railroad”). A possible solutions was…