The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

1 Kings 21:19b, 23, “Thus says the LORD, ‘In the place where the dogs

licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs shall lick up your blood, even yours….’

23 “And of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, ‘The dogs shall eat

Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.’”

Not everything in Scripture is pleasant to read. Ahab, is the King of Israel.

Jezebel is his wife. Ahab is pouting because Naboth would not sell him his

vineyard which was adjacent to the king’s palace. Jezebel determines to

murder Naboth and take the vineyard; and she does just that. But the

LORD is not unmindful of what they have done, and He sends His prophet,

Elijah, to cite the consequences for their evil joint operation.

Three years go by without incident. Then Ahab teams up with Jehoshaphat,

King of Judah, to go to war against the king of Aram. Ahab goes to battle in

Disguise. Jehoshaphat boldly identifies himself to the enemy by wearing

his kingly attire. What neither of them know is that the king of Aram tells

his warriors to ignore everyone except Ahab. In the course of the battle,

an unnamed archer struck Ahab and severely wounded him, so that he

withdrew from the battle. He “died at evening, and the blood from the wound

ran into the bottom of the chariot….And they washed the chariot by the pool of

Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood…, according to the word of the LORD

which He spoke.”

What happened to Jezebel was worse. Time has passed, and Elisha (who

succeeded Elijah as prophet) anointed Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, as king

of Israel. Elisha also announces that the entire house of Ahab, including Jezebel,

would be destroyed. Ultimately, Jezebel was thrown to the ground from an

upper-story window and trampled beneath the horses’ hooves. Jehu ordered

that she be buried, but when “they went to bury her, but they found no more of

her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands” (v. 35). The dogs

had eaten her flesh, just as the LORD had said through Elijah.

Be careful! Learn from this biblical account! Obey the LORD at all times!

He ultimately destroys evil, and all those who identify with it.

Our love and prayers for you all continue day-by-day,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”