{"id":2720,"date":"2024-05-30T14:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:40:46","slug":"june-2-2024-1-kings-20-slay-each-his-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"June 2, 2024 &#8211; 1 Kings 20 &#8211; &#8216;Slay Each His Man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A war with the Syrian king Benhadad prompts an unnamed prophet to promise King Ahab victory. But he fails to finish the job by executing Benhadad &#8211; &#8220;A man whom I appointed to utter destruction.&#8221;\u00a0 The story reveals an underlying thread of gospel truth, that we each must &#8220;slay our man&#8221; i.e. ourselves &#8211; accept our death and go to the cross.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/1Kings20_Notes.pdf\">Notes on 1 Kings 20:1-43<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A war with the Syrian king Benhadad prompts an unnamed prophet to promise King Ahab victory. But he fails to finish the job by executing Benhadad &#8211; &#8220;A man whom I appointed to utter destruction.&#8221;\u00a0 The story reveals an underlying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}