When things go wrong, we can be tempted to doubt God’s promises.

As we grieve the deaths from Covid-19, we might ask where God is and what he’s doing.

This question also springs to mind as we look at God’s rulers in 1 Kings chapter 15.

We begin, verse 1, reading that, “Abijam began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel.”

As we see throughout this and the next chapter, the dating of the southern king of Judah is related to the date of the northern king of Israel, because the two, really, are supposed to be together, not separated.