1 Kings: The Wisdom and the Folly (Focus on the Bible)

“One of the reasons I enjoy Davis's exposition so much is that I feel confident that he has done his exegetical homework, and so is not just delivering blessed, unhistorical thoughts on the text. Yet at the same time, he applies the text so well.”

“The range of scholarship is extraordinary (is there any learned book or paper on First Kings that this writer has not winkled out?), His humor and humanity, plus a priceless American-style turn of phrase, add relish to the dish. Here is a safe and strong pair of hands to guide new, and older, readers through the treasure - and the uninspiring bits - of First Kings.”

“Robust’—that's the word ...a robust understanding, defense, explanation and application of First Kings as the Word of God. Here is no ‘First Kings in my own words’—the boring, fruitless fate of most commentaries on Bible History - but a delicious feast of truth, proof that the ancients were right to call the historians‘prophets.’”

“...this exposition enables the contemporary reader to breath the air of 1 Kings, re-live its challenges, and above all, to encounter the personal God who speaks and acts throughout its pages. This is a book to unsettle spiritual complacency and challenge us to a deep integrity in our relationship with the living God.”