And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:
The verse belongs to the history of the two separate kingdoms of Judah and Israel for about eighty years, from the revolt of the ten tribes to the death of Jehoshaphat, comprising the histories of the reigns of several kings both of Judah and Israel. In its immediate setting, after an earlier siege of Samaria, Ben-hadad king of Syria returned the next year against Ahab and Israel, God gave Israel victory in defeating his army, and Ben-hadad fled and surrendered to Israel's king. The account shows another effort by God to win the weak Ahab, for a prophet warned and reproved him and the victory was meant to show him that it came from Jehovah, yet Ahab went on to disobey. No specific explanation of the instruction itself in the verse is given.
Applied to life, the verse calls for taking those who are merely ornamental or ineffective and out of place in life's serious work out of their place. It calls for putting capable workers suited to the needs of the hour in their rooms. Those who will act and endure hardship must take the place of those who cannot meet the demand of the time.
The verse belongs to the history of the two separate kingdoms of Judah and Israel for about eighty years, from the revolt of the ten tribes to the death of Jehoshaphat, comprising the histories of the reigns of several kings both of Judah and Israel. In its immediate setting, after an earlier siege of Samaria, Ben-hadad king of Syria returned the next year against Ahab and Israel, God gave Israel victory in defeating his army, and Ben-hadad fled and surrendered to Israel's king. The account shows another effort by God to win the weak Ahab, for a prophet warned and reproved him and the victory was meant to show him that it came from Jehovah, yet Ahab went on to disobey. No specific explanation of the instruction itself in the verse is given.
Applied to life, the verse calls for taking those who are merely ornamental or ineffective and out of place in life's serious work out of their place. It calls for putting capable workers suited to the needs of the hour in their rooms. Those who will act and endure hardship must take the place of those who cannot meet the demand of the time.