Power Read The Bible In 60 Days With Jeff Andersonنموونە

Day 17

SPEED BUMPS AHEAD!

[Scheduled Reading: 1 Kings 6-20]

I want to call attention to a speed bump in today’s reading: 1 Kings 11 & 12.

It’s a sad few chapters, actually.

God is preparing to break up Israel on account of Solomon’s fade from God. Israel will split into ten northern tribes (called Israel in Samaria) and two southern tribes (called Judah in Jerusalem).

It doesn’t help that the two initial leaders are named Jeroboam (Israel’s king) and Rehoboam (Judah’s king). That’s one of the challenges of Bible reading - all the names start to run together.

Throughout the rest of Kings and then 2 Chronicles, the authors bounce back and forth between the accounts of kings in Judah and Israel.

In my past Bible read-through attempts, I missed these speed bump moments and it sure made reading difficult for me in the sections ahead.

It’s important to remember that Judah is the line that God will use to work The Seed from Genesis 3:15 (that ultimately arrives to Mary and Joseph).

OK, carry on. There are some Speed 2/3 zones ahead, and I just wanted to make sure you caught this critical historical tidbit in 1 Kings 11 & 12.