Fairy Tale Spotlight: Kings I [Book Review]

"Kings I" is the eleventh book of the "Holy Bible," and it is traditionally believed to have been written by the prophet Jeremiah. Where this book starts off really strong, it quickly falls into chaos of the worst kind.

Initially, we have the story of the son of David, Solomon. He did something amazing. God comes to him in a dream and basically asks him to make any wish. Solomon only asks that he has the wisdom to help his people. God was extremely impressed with that and, not only decides to grant this wish, but He also gives him long life and riches. What Solomon wished for was likely a surprise for God, since the Israelites have a history of... well... being stupid.

And Solomon certainly had wisdom, but it didn't seem to be enough in his old age. After sleeping with a bunch of women who served other gods, he also began to serve them. He even built statues to them, even Molech which is my personal pet peeve. This pretty much is where the book descends into chaos.

"Kings I" is actually a depressing read. Without getting into all the details, the whole world of Israel gets split up between two kings and hardly any of them can seem to stay on the right path. Some out rightly just spend their entire career sinning. There's so much of it that much of the book just writes them off without explaining the details.

The book also introduces a lot of prophets such as Elijah. Many of them live very crappy lives in this world that has mostly turned away from God entirely. Heck, a lot of them are just outright executed for being followers of God.

The thing that really gets me about this is that nobody seems to care about how much God did for them up to this point. They are so ungrateful. People never really change. I see this sort of thing even to this day. The more comfortable people get, the more they sin. It's a vicious cycle that has never really ended since those old times.

I have a hard time recommending this book because of how depressing it is, but it is there for a reason. If anything, it may open your eyes to how shitty most of the people in the world really are. Some things never change.

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