1 Kings 14-16

So Jeroboam had a son who got sick, so he said to his wife, "Go, disguise yourself, so you won't be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam, Then go to Ahijah the prophet - the one who told me I would be king over this people. He will tell you what will happen to the boy." So she went to old blind Ahijah. But God had told her she was coming, and he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, Why this pretense?" Heehee! He said to tell Jeroboam, "I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel - slave or free. As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, has found anything good." Whoa, the baby was the only one good! "The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut offthe family of Jeroboam." It was true - the child died. And God did bring another king - a wild one. He did evil, but he did kill off every one of Jeroboam's people and family. After that, there was another king who did very much evil. God made him like Jeroboam. So there have been several bad kings BUT.... (drumroll) You ain't seen nothing yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here comes Ahab!!! He built a temple for Baal. He built an Asherah Pole. He married a devil woman. It says, "he did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him." And let me tell you - there have been some dandies!!! Tomorrow we'll meet Elijah! But here's a quick thing that was thrown in to my delight. It says right at the end of the chapter, "Heil of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken by Joshua son of Nun." Wait!!!!!! I just read about Jericho yesterday!!!!! Flip back!!!!!!!! Yup! In chapter 6 verse 26 it says, "'Cursed before the LORD is the man who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: At the cost of his firstborn son will he lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest will he set up its gates.'" WOW!!!!!!! And this is happening HUNDREDS of years later!!!! Maybe even a thousand!!!!!!!!!! *I love fulfilled prophecy* God doesn't forget!!!!!