ocr: Javid, emained more taithtul to God and his covenant, and consequentiy Judah survived 136 years longer. Although the Bible uiscusses all thirty-nine rulers by name. after Solomon stories of the kings speed up into a rorgettable blur. God turns instead to his prophets. Elijah, the wildest and wooliest prophet of all, first makes an appearance in this chapter. He llustrates petter than anyone else the decisive change: where King Solomon had worn jewelry and fine clothes and lived luxuriously in a gilded palace, Elijah wore a Jiaper-like covering of black camel's hair, slept in the Wilderness, an ...