Elijah:
Model Prophet, and King Ahab
*Taken from Professor
Spalteholtz’s REL 211 class at Concordia University Portland, Spring 2002
The Northern Kingdom (Israel: 10 Northern Tribes)
1.
The instability of the N. Kingdom is evident in 1 Kings 16: Elah is king how long (vs.8)?
_______. Who assassinates him?_________. How long is he king (vs.15)?________. Who do the Israelites then proclaim
king (vs.16)?_________. But
instability continues for how long (vv.15/23)___________. One problem was: no good site for a capital
city (first it was Shechem, then Tirzah).
The new capital is (vs.24) __________. That king established so powerful a dynasty,
that Assyrian records 100 years later still called Israel “The House of
Omri.” How does this king help guarantee
Israel’s doom (vs.25-26)?
_____________________________________________________________________________. Who is his (in)famous, wicked son?
__________.
2.
List his most provocative sins (16:30-34)
______________________________________________________________________________
3.
No wonder a prophet emerges out of the blue (17:1)! Who speaks here?! __________. What is his message? ______________________,
and what follows (18:1-2)? ___________________.
a.
In 17:6, how is Elijah fed? __________, and what is the point?
________________________.
b.
Where does 17:7-27 take place? _____________ and what three
miracles take place (vs.24 is the third, for the widow!)
1) __________________________________________________________________________.
2)
__________________________________________________________________________.
3)
__________________________________________________________________________.
c.
Where does 18:16-46 take place? __________. Who is Elijah
addressing? __________. What is
the issue (vv.21/39)?
__________________________________________________________.
d.
How many prophets of Baal get into the contest? __________. What does Elijah have the people do to them?
__________. What had Jezebel done (18:4)?
________________________.
4.
In 19:1ff, why does Elijah flee? __________________________, and
to where? __________.
a.
How does he feel (3-4)? __________. Do you blame him; why or why not?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
b.
And how does he survive on the journey (5-8)?
____________________________________.
c.
How long does the journey take and what might that imply?
__________________________.
d.
What may God’s question (19:9b) imply?
_________________________________________.
e.
What does Elijah seem to expect from God?
_______________________________________.
f.
And what does he get in 13b?
__________________________________________________.
g.
And what does he get instead (15-18)?
___________________________________________.
5.
What evil do Ahab and Jezebel do (1 Kings 21), and against which
commandments?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
a.
Who is speaking, and who is the “I,” in 21:21, and why is that
significant?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
b.
What is Ahab’s response (21:27)? __________ Assess it:
__________________________.
c.
What is God’s (21:28f)? __________________________.
d.
What is God’s judgment on Ahab (21:19c; vv22-23)?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
e.
And how is it fulfilled (22:29-38)?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
f. What is God’s judgment on Jezebel
(21:23)? __________________________.
g. And how is it fulfilled (see 2
Kings 9:1ff..10..14-26…30-37)?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
h.
Who is Jehu? (2 Kings 9:1…20b)
and what do you think of him?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
i.
What does Jehu do to the rest of the house of Ahab (2 Kings 10:1-11)?
__________________.
j.
And what is the point (10:10)?
__________________________________________________.
6.
Now (2 Kings 2) we see how Elijah’s earthly life ends and God’s
Word continues.
a.
What does Elijah keep telling Elisha (and how often)?
__________________________.
b.
And why do you think Elijah says what he is saying?
__________________________.
c.
What is Elisha’s response, and what does it reveal?
__________________________.
d.
Where is the final place, and why is that significant?
__________________________.
e.
What is Elisha’s final request, and what do you think we are to make of
it?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
f.
How does Elijah go to Heaven (2:1,11b)?
__________________________.
g.
What then is the function of the famous “chariot of fire and horses of
fire”? (cf Psalm 20:7!)
__________________________________________________________________________. 
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