Psalia.History & narrative / About this book
Solomon’s temple and wisdom are followed by divided loyalties and a divided kingdom. As kings turn toward other gods, prophets challenge their rule. Elijah’s story brings the conflict over worship into focus, alongside the treatment of people with little power.
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Follow the story across more than one scene. Keep track of people, places, decisions, and consequences, especially when the account changes its focus. What a person does in a narrative is not automatically what the reader is being told to do.
Notice how the narrator presents success, failure, memory, and responsibility. A brief note about what has changed can help you pick up the thread when you return to the next chapter.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1Now King David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.
2Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”
3So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately.
5Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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Where does a king’s choice of worship shape the way other people are treated?
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