1 Kings 14:13 – All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam’s family who will be properly buried. He was the only one in Jeroboam’s house in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.
Wow. No one else was found good. And because Yahweh found him good, he took him. Probably to save him from further corruption or so that he would see the destruction that would happen to his family. Death at times are a blessing.
1 Kings 14:17 – Jeroboam’s wife got up, left, and went to Tirzah. When she walked across the threshold of her home, the boy died.
Hmmmm. Would I have gone home? If the condition that my son would die once I set foot in my home, I think I would have stayed away and probably pleaded with Yahweh for his life. See? I didn’t set foot. That was the condition, so save him. Or would Yahweh have devised some way to ensure she went home. So maybe she just resigned herself. There’s always hope once there is life. David did not stop praying for him son until after he died.
1 Kings 15:13 – He also removed his grandmother Maacah from the position of queen mother because she made a statue of the repulsive goddess Asherah. Asa cut the statue down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Sigh. Definition of infamous. After reading the scriptures before and realising that Maacah was intentionally mentioned several times. I was thinking she must have been an awesome mother. And then I read this and had to remember that not all famous is good. And clearly she wasn’t.
1 Kings 17:8-9 – Then the Lord spoke his word to Elijah: “Get up, go to Zarephath (which belongs to Sidon), and stay there. I’ve commanded a widow there to feed you.”
Not only did Yahweh use someone outside of Israel to save Elijah, but he used someone from where Jezebel was from. He truly doesn’t care about our pedigree but that we trust him.