A House Divided & The Prophets

 Week 14: “A House Divided”


Read: 1 Kings 12-16






Week 15: “God’s Messengers” 


Read: 1 Kings 17-19; 2 Kings 2; 4; 6; Hosea 4-5; 8-9; 14; Amos 1; 3-5; 9


Listen:  Walter Brueggrman on the Prophetic Imagination


View:             Hosea, tempera on wood painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna, c. 1309–1311.






Monument to Elijah on Mt. Carmel, 2018



Approximate site of the defeat of the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel, looking toward Wadi Kishon






Scenes from Megiddo, Israel archaeological site (built during the time of Omri/Ahab)













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