Study 2024-2025: 1 Kings

The Book of 1 Kings 

Overview 
- Author:    Unknown
- What: 1st and 2nd Kings focuses on the kings of Israel after King David
-When: 970-586 BC
-Where: Israel
-Why: Israel, cycling through kings, shows how some kings led Israel astray and how others led the nation to repentance, only for the cycle to continue in this manner

Jesus OT ← → NT:
1:29 = the LORD lives
3:5 = the LORD appeared in a dream
6:11-13 =  Word of the LORD
8:10 = the cloud of the LORD associated with Jesus in Exodus 14:19-22
8:29+39 = the LORD hears, so has ears
9:2-9 = the LORD appeared
12:22-24 = Word of the LORD
13:1-3 = Word of the LORD
13:9 = Word of the LORD
13:17-18 = Word of the LORD
16:1-4 = Word of the LORD
16:7 = Word of the LORD
17:2-6 = Word of the LORD
17:8-9 = Word of the LORD
18:1 = Word of the LORD
19:5-18 = angel of the LORD
20:35 = Word of the LORD
21:17-24 = Word of the LORD
21:28-29 = Word of the LORD

The Trinity Shown:
6:11-13 again the angel of the LORD appears, Exodus 23:20-21 says the LORD put His Name in the angel of the LORD and to listen to Him and obey Him.

Key Events:
Chapters: 5, 6, 8, 10, and 1 Kings 16:29 to 2 Kings 10 (the length of Ahab and Jezebel’s reign, beginning to end)
1:28-30, 2:2, 3:16-28, 4:32, 7:13-14, 7:13-51, 10:1-13, 10:22-25, 11:33, 11:41-43, 13:18-30, 15:9-15, 15:25-26, 16:8-14, 16:18-20, 16:25-26, 16:29-34, 17:19-22 (although Elijah raised the dead, he had to ask… Jesus doesn’t ask, He just does), 20:28, 22:5, 22:19-23, 22:51-53

Major (not all) Prophecies Fulfilled of the Messiah(Jesus):
2:45 = Luke 1:32-33

Culture/Time:
1:51, 2:28, 11:1-13, 12:25-33, 14:16, 18:20-21 (Elijah calling out their polytheism), 18:27-28

Relevant History + Science:
14:16, 14:23-25