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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-05-08  |  1.6 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  37 seconds
Transcription: Elijah, the wildest and woolliest prophet of all, first makes an appearance in this chapter. He illustrates better 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 diaper-like covering of black camel's hair, slept in the wilderness, and had to beg or pray for handouts. He came on the scene when Israel was thriving politically but floundering spiritually. Queen Jezebel had just launched a campaign to murder all true prophets of God and replace them with a thousand pagan priests.