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Podcast: Seeking the Gospel Truth
Episode: 210.4: 1 Kings 14: Devotion of Idols Leads to Slavery, Loss and Death
Description: Man has a tendency to stray from God. It started with Adam, continued with Solomon ā who by what he wrote in Ecclesiastes, Ā seemed to have repented in his old age ā and continues with the new Ā kings of Israel and Judah. Due to Solomonās turning to idolatry because Ā of his many wives and concubines, a united Israel is split with 10 tribes in the north, called āIsraelā and 2 tribes in the south, called āJudahā. This split, which happened in 925 BC, would last 200 years.
Altogether, Israel would have 19 bad kings in this time period, none Ā of whom pleased God. Out of the 20 king...