I Kings 18:28, “And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.” This classic story pits God Jehovah against the god Baal worshipped by King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The land of Israel has been without rain for
II Chronicles 12:7: “”And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah saying: they have humbled themselves, then I will not destroy them.” Solomon’s administrative policies developed some dangerous principles. His ambition for the magnificence and fame of Jerusalem had led him to inaugurate a system
