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What lying message did Herod give ? Matt. 2:8. What command did the elders break? Deut. 16:18, 19. What was God’s law concerning blas phemy? Ex. 22:28; Lev. 24:15, 16. Did Stephen suffer from the sanie cause? Acts 6:11; 7:58, 59. What does the Lord hate? Prov. 5 :16-19. What awaits the false witness ? Prov. 19:5-9. - Did this wickedness escape the eye of God? Eccl. 5:8. Was the purpose of proclaiming a fast to suggest -that there had been some secret sin? 2 Sam. 21:1; Deut. 21:9. To curse the king is to curse who? Matt. 23:18-23. Was it the custom to include the family in the sentence ? Dan. 6 :24. What was the law of Moses ? - 2 Kings 14:6. ^ (3) The Possession of the Vineyard, vs. 15, 16. .Jezebel informs Ahab of Naboth’s death, v. 15. Ahab takes possession of the inheritance, v. 16. Questions: What cold-blooded woman was like Jeze bel? Mark 6:22-25. Of whom does Ahab remind us? Mark 12:7. What result follows an inheritance gotten hastily? Prov. 20:21. By whose death do we obtain our inheri tance? Eph. 1:11. (4) The Prophesied Doom of the King, vs. 17-23. The Lord sends Elijah to Ahab, v. 17. He meets him in the vineyard, v. 18. •
He reads the death warrant from God, vs. 18-22. He foretells the judgment upon Jezebel, vs. 23, 24. Questions: To whom had Ahab sold himself? 2 Kings 17:17. What judgment was visited upon Ahab? ■2 Kings-9:7, 9, 10. What upon his children? 2 Kings 10:1-7. What upon his kinsfolk and his priests? ch: 10:11. What upon Jezebel? ch. 9:30-37. What is the great lesson? Gen. 9:6; Prov. 11:31; Mai. 3:5. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) Covetousness is a devouring disease. (2) The undoing of Ahab was his selling himself to Satan. (3) What difference does a. crown on the head make, if there is a crook in the ... .V . heart? (4) Ahab’s wickedness had its root in his weakness. Jezebel’s sin had its source in her- strength. j. .. (5) Ahab played the fool. Jezebel played foul.- (6) There will always be evil men to serve evil masters. (7) Contentment is wealth. Covetousness is poverty. (8) The fast was a far-fetched, devilish dissimulation. (9) If there is. to be a resurrection of acts as well as of bodies; what a cruel company will that be in which to spend eternity ! (10) Naboth, the martyr, is in strong con trast with Ahab, the murderer. (11) Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished.
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