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* {{Polyamory}}: TurnedUpToEleven: Solomon has 700 wives and 300 concubines.
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* {{Polyamory}}: TurnedUpToEleven: Solomon has 700 wives and 300 concubines. concubines.
*PuppetKing: Israel & Judah had their share.
*PuppetKing: Israel & Judah had their share.
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*TheStarscream: Majority of Northern Israel's kings.
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*DeathByFallingOver: King Ahaziah of Israel
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1 Kings tells of Israel's Golden Age under Solomon but he also sows the seeds of rebellion which leads the nation to divide into North and South.
2 Kings continues the history of the divided nations of Northern Israel and Southern Judah. Both go into a downward spiral until they are destroyed by foreign nations and their peoples sent into exile.
2 Kings continues the history of the divided nations of Northern Israel and Southern Judah. Both go into a downward spiral until they are destroyed by foreign nations and their peoples sent into exile.
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1 Kings tells of Israel's Golden Age under Solomon but he also sows the seeds of rebellion which leads the nation to divide into North Northern Israel and South.
Southern Judah.
2 Kings continues the history of the dividednations of Northern Israel and Southern Judah.nations. Both go into a downward spiral until they are destroyed by foreign nations and their peoples sent into exile.
2 Kings continues the history of the divided
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*IAmAHumanitarian: There was a famine during the time of Elijah & Elisha, so there are instances of cannibalism.
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* SerialEscalation: In 1 Kings 14, Jeroboam did more evil when whomever preceded him. Later, in 1 Kings 16, Zimri was described as evil, and the two following kings (Omri and Ahab) did more evil than any before.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Elisha summons two bears to maul 42 young bandits just for mocking his bald head.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: King Abijah of Judah gave one about Jeroboam in Chronicles.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: ReasonYouSuckSpeech: King Abijah of Judah gave one about Jeroboam in Chronicles.
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* TooDumbToLive: The King of Israel sends some soldiers to bring Elijah to him. Their leader isn't very respectful, so Elijah makes a snarky comment and [[KillItWithFire burns them with divine fire]]. The King sends a second group of soldiers, and their leader, apparently not noticing the charred corpses and burned rocks and whatnot, ''makes the exact same disrespectful demand as the first''. [[KillItWithFire The results are predictable.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: The King of Israel sends some soldiers to bring Elijah to him. Their leader isn't very respectful, so Elijah makes a snarky comment and [[KillItWithFire burns them with divine fire]]. The King sends a second group of soldiers, and their leader, apparently not noticing the charred corpses and burned rocks and whatnot, ''makes the exact same disrespectful demand as the first''. [[KillItWithFire The results are predictable.]]]] Thankfully, the third batch learned from their mistakes and humbles himself before the prophet.
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* TooDumbToLive: The King of Israel sends some soldiers to bring Elisha to him. Their leader isn't very respectful, so Elisha makes a snarky comment and burns them with divine fire. The King sends a second group of soldiers, and their leader, apparently not noticing the charred corpses and burned rocks and whatnot, ''makes the exact same disrespectful demand as the first''. The results are predictable.
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* TooDumbToLive: The King of Israel sends some soldiers to bring Elisha Elijah to him. Their leader isn't very respectful, so Elisha Elijah makes a snarky comment and [[KillItWithFire burns them with divine fire.fire]]. The King sends a second group of soldiers, and their leader, apparently not noticing the charred corpses and burned rocks and whatnot, ''makes the exact same disrespectful demand as the first''. [[KillItWithFire The results are predictable.]]
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*CrapsackWorld: Foreign invasions from without and political upheaval from within.
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*CrypticBackgroundReference: References are made about another book (presumably lost) detailing the rest of deeds of Israel's kings
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*FatalFlaw
**Solomon's dissatisfaction with his life.
**Elah's drunkenness.
**Ahab's inability to stand up to his wife.
**Solomon's dissatisfaction with his life.
**Elah's drunkenness.
**Ahab's inability to stand up to his wife.
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* JerkAss: Rehoboam.{{Jerkass}}: Rehoboam, Solomon's son.
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** BittersweetEnding - Chronicles
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* HopeSpot - Chronicles ends with the proclamation of Cyrus the Great allowing the Jews to return to their homeland.
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* ViceCity: North Israel. Especially pronounces in Amos.
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* ViceCity: North Israel. Especially pronounces pronounced in Amos.
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* SuckSessor: Terrible kings often followed good ones, but every so often good kings followed terrible ones.
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* SuckSessor: Terrible kings often followed good ones, but every so often good kings followed terrible ones. (At least in Judah, anyway. The book of Kings grades all of Israel's rulers as evil.)
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* ShesNotMyGirlfriend: David had a ward in his old age who everyone thought was a concubine. One of his sons even asked to marry her perhaps to lay a claim to the throne.
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* SuckSessor: Terrible kings often followed good ones, but every so often good kings followed terrible ones.
* SuckSessor: Terrible kings often followed good ones, but every so often good kings followed terrible ones.
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* TooDumbTooLive: The King of Israel sends some soldiers to bring Elisha to him. Their leader isn't very respectful, so Elisha makes a snarky comment and burns them with divine fire. The King sends a second group of soldiers, and their leader, apparently not noticing the charred corpses and burned rocks and whatnot, ''makes the exact same disrespectful demand as the first''. The results are predictable.
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* TooDumbTooLive: TooDumbToLive: The King of Israel sends some soldiers to bring Elisha to him. Their leader isn't very respectful, so Elisha makes a snarky comment and burns them with divine fire. The King sends a second group of soldiers, and their leader, apparently not noticing the charred corpses and burned rocks and whatnot, ''makes the exact same disrespectful demand as the first''. The results are predictable.
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*TooDumbTooLive: The King of Israel sends some soldiers to bring Elisha to him. Their leader isn't very respectful, so Elisha makes a snarky comment and burns them with divine fire. The King sends a second group of soldiers, and their leader, apparently not noticing the charred corpses and burned rocks and whatnot, ''makes the exact same disrespectful demand as the first''. The results are predictable.
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Was followed by 1 & 2 Chronicles, a LighterAndSofter rehashing of Kings to inspire the Jews exiled to Babylon. Most of the Prophets preached during this period.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Isaih saw 2 centuries into Israel's future. Some scholars believe these were written by other prophets and attributed them to him to increase it's authority.
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*TragicMistake: Hezekiah showed off Judah's treasures to Babylonian envoys and ended up putting his country on Babylon's hit list.
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*ChronicVillainy: Judah often backslides after a "good" king dies.
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* EvilMatriarch: Jezebel and Athaliah (the latter was not above killing ''her own grandchildren'' to secure her own power.)
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* {{Polyamory}}: TurnedUpToEleven: Solomon has 700 wives and 300 concubines.
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* LoveRuinsTheRealm: Solomon allows his wives to worship their own gods, rather than forcing them to [[ConvertingForLove convert]]. They eventually persuaded him that their gods were better, leading him to idol worship (as well as many of his subjects.) This leads to religiously-motivated civil war.
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The 11th and 12th books of TheBible.
1 Kings tells of Israel's Golden Age under Solomon but he also sows the seeds of rebellion which leads the nation to divide into North and South.
2 Kings continues the history of the divided nations of Northern Israel and Southern Judah. Both go into a downward spiral until they are destroyed by foreign nations and their peoples sent into exile.
Was followed by 1 & 2 Chronicles, a LighterAndSofter rehashing of Kings to inspire the Jews exiled to Babylon.
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!!These books contain the following tropes
* TheAlcoholic: King Elah of Israel.
* CainAndAbel / RedOniBlueOni: Israel and Judah.
* {{Curse}}: Joshua cursed whoever rebuilds Jericho. This came true in the reign of Ahab.
* DownerEnding
* {{Egopolis}}: Israel during the reign of Omri.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Jezebel and Athaliah.
* HeelFaceTurn: Manasseh.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Jehosaphat's alliance with Israel had terrible consequences. Pagan practices spread to Judah, he was almost killed in battle because of Ahab, his venture into maritime commerce ended in disaster and his daughter-in-law Athaliah almost destroyed David's royal line.
* JerkAss: Rehoboam.
* KlingonPromotion
* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Their Kind]]: Elijah and Elisha were the last miracle workers in the Old Testament.
* NamesTheSame: Jeroboam II is a descendant of Jehu, not Jeroboam I.
* ThePurge: Oh, so much.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: King Abijah of Judah gave one about Jeroboam in Chronicles.
* ShesNotMyGirlfriend: David had a ward in his old age who everyone thought was a concubine. One of his sons even asked to marry her perhaps to lay a claim to the throne.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Jeroboam had a young son, Ahijah, who died of illness. He was the only one in the family to be buried and mourned because he was the only one in whom God found any good.
* ViceCity: North Israel. Especially pronounces in Amos.
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1 Kings tells of Israel's Golden Age under Solomon but he also sows the seeds of rebellion which leads the nation to divide into North and South.
2 Kings continues the history of the divided nations of Northern Israel and Southern Judah. Both go into a downward spiral until they are destroyed by foreign nations and their peoples sent into exile.
Was followed by 1 & 2 Chronicles, a LighterAndSofter rehashing of Kings to inspire the Jews exiled to Babylon.
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!!These books contain the following tropes
* TheAlcoholic: King Elah of Israel.
* CainAndAbel / RedOniBlueOni: Israel and Judah.
* {{Curse}}: Joshua cursed whoever rebuilds Jericho. This came true in the reign of Ahab.
* DownerEnding
* {{Egopolis}}: Israel during the reign of Omri.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Jezebel and Athaliah.
* HeelFaceTurn: Manasseh.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Jehosaphat's alliance with Israel had terrible consequences. Pagan practices spread to Judah, he was almost killed in battle because of Ahab, his venture into maritime commerce ended in disaster and his daughter-in-law Athaliah almost destroyed David's royal line.
* JerkAss: Rehoboam.
* KlingonPromotion
* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Their Kind]]: Elijah and Elisha were the last miracle workers in the Old Testament.
* NamesTheSame: Jeroboam II is a descendant of Jehu, not Jeroboam I.
* ThePurge: Oh, so much.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: King Abijah of Judah gave one about Jeroboam in Chronicles.
* ShesNotMyGirlfriend: David had a ward in his old age who everyone thought was a concubine. One of his sons even asked to marry her perhaps to lay a claim to the throne.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Jeroboam had a young son, Ahijah, who died of illness. He was the only one in the family to be buried and mourned because he was the only one in whom God found any good.
* ViceCity: North Israel. Especially pronounces in Amos.
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