Books of Kings

In his book, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild explores how the 'civilized western society' is consumed with so much greed, envy and pride that they are unable to open the eyes and witness the brutal impact of their action. The book focuses on not only the course of colonizing a nation and exploiting it of all its humanity and wealth but also focuses on the impact of the deed. It highlights the legacy of the colonialization and how it shapes the world influenced by it. Following the discovery of most of the world, major powerful European countries used their power to colonize this newly discovered nations but being a small nation, Belgium lacked behind there superpowers. It was only…

King’s Life “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.” was edited by Clayborne Carson. Carson went to his first civil rights demonstration and he saw King for the first time at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Two decades later, Carson was requested by Mrs. Coretta Scott King to become the director of the King Papers Project. He accepted the offer and became enveloped in King’s writings. The book is compiled of the autobiographical writings King published and edited…

York Times Book Review, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. By: Clayborne Carson Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the most influential men of his time. Clayborne Carson gives an overview of his life and goes into specific details of his accomplishments that have benefited the African American community. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King had two siblings an older sister named, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother named, Alfred Daniel…

Manasseh: 2 Kings vs. 2 Chronicles King Manasseh was certainly a memorable king of Judah for those who had read and reread the books of Kings and Chronicles. Both books draw much attention to him, but there can be no doubt that the figure of Manasseh as portrayed in Chronicles was significantly different from the king evoked by the book of Kings. Initially, 2 Chronicles 33 follows closely the accounts of 2 Kings 21. King Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, began his 55-year reign at the age of 12.…

the chief place for the worship of Hathor, who is variously seen as the patroness of earthly love, the goddess of healing, and the great feminine source of all nourishment. In 960 B.C., the nation-state that is now called Ethiopia, came back upon the epicenter of the stage of history. Ethiopia was then ruled by a queen, who in some books is referred to as "Makeda.”She is better known to the world as the Queen of Sheba. Queen Makeda is biblically pronounced as the embodiment of magnificence and…

Introduction Before the introduction of Elijah in the book of 1st Kings, we are given a synoptic account of the condition of the Israel’s king, an account which stands in blinding contrast to the instructions of the Lord for a king over Israel: “Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all who were before him [When he has taken the throne of his kingdom, he shall have a copy of this law written for him in the presence of the levitical priests…so that he may learn to fear the…

In understanding Baal-zebub in 2 Kgs 1:2, we begin with Ahaziah falling through a lattice and inquiring of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron. It should be no surprise as a worshipper of Baal, determined to walk in the evil ways of his father and of his mother (1 Kings 22:52), Ahaziah would obviously make inquiries of all forms of the Baal divinity. Why he would chose "Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is said that possibly that Baal the oldest ancient sites of the Baal-worshiping temple. Baal-zebub is "the…

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…

While hidden, he was mentored and tutored by a priest Jehoiada, his aunt’s husband. No one knew about him except a few people. He was protected and guarded during a time when evil was warring against good. Joash had a destiny on his life. He was an heir to David and was considered royalty. Not everyone is chosen for royalty. To lead and/or become King has to be an appointment and anointing from God. “The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his…

encountered all who gathered on Mount Carmel that day. Elijah served as God’s mouthpiece, hands and feet to vividly display his authoritative deity over Baal and Baal’s worshipers. The narrative of God’s intervention begins in 1 Kings 18:1 when God tells Elijah to go to Ahab. We see from the dialogue between Obadiah and Elijah, that this would be a suicide mission. But Elijah remains faithful and obedient and by doing so, God will fulfill the prophecy mentioned a chapter earlier by sending rain…