One Accord

We open 2 Kings as Ahaziah seeks the god of Ekron, fire falls on the king’s soldiers, and Elijah is taken up by a whirlwind while Elisha receives his mantle. Then come the bears at Bethel, two kings named Jehoram, and a Moabite king who sacrifices his son on the city wall. Joe, Eric, and Greg don’t always land in the same place, and they say so: on what makes a prophet, on the rapture, and on whether reform can be incremental.

We finish 1 Kings with Ahab’s last three chapters: an unlikely victory over Ben-hadad, the murder of Naboth, and a final battle Ahab cannot escape. Along the way the hosts wrestle openly, and sometimes land in different places, on whether God’s stated intentions can go unfulfilled, whether God “changed His mind” when Ahab humbled himself, and what to make of the deceiving spirit in Micaiah’s vision.

In Episode 153 of our Biblical Theology Project, Joe, Eric, and Greg work through 1 Kings 17-19: Elijah’s drought, a widow’s son raised from the dead, Obadiah’s quiet courage in Ahab’s house, fire from heaven on Mount Carmel, and Elijah’s collapse under Jezebel’s threat. Along the way, the hosts openly disagree about whether God’s power through Elijah says anything about Elijah’s faithfulness, and why the question matters pastorally.

Joe, Eric, and Greg work through 1 Kings 15–16, where Judah finds a reformer in Asa while Israel cycles through Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, and Ahab. They ask what “wholly devoted” really means, why Bible chronologies don’t always agree, and whether Scripture means what it says when it tells us kings provoked the Lord to anger. Along the way the hosts land in different places on Asa and the high places, and they say so.

Solomon is gone, and the kingdom splits in a single generation. In Episode 151, Joe, Eric, and Greg work through 1 Kings 12-14: Rehoboam's reckless answer to the northern tribes, Jeroboam's counterfeit worship, a prophecy naming Josiah before his birth, and the doomed house of Jeroboam. The hosts don't always agree, especially on how God brought about the division, and that makes for an honest, lively conversation.

Episode 150 lands on one of the sharpest turns in Israel's history. Joe, Eric, and Greg work through 1 Kings 10 and 11, where Solomon's gold, wisdom, and international fame give way to idolatry and a kingdom about to be divided. Along the way they take up church buildings and beauty, whether prosperity should be read as a warning, and whether Solomon was resisting God's will or secretly fulfilling it. The hosts do not all land in the same place, and they say so.

The glory of the Lord fills the temple, Solomon prays one of the most theologically loaded prayers in Scripture, and God declares that His name, His eyes, and His heart will be in this place perpetually. But what does "forever" actually mean? Joe, Eric, and Greg work verse by verse through 1 Kings 8 and 9 and hit one of the sharpest disagreements of the entire Biblical Theology Project: whether God's promise is tied to a building, a city, or a people, and whether anything has changed since.

Solomon spends seven years building a house for the name of the Lord and thirteen building his own palace. Is that a misplaced priority, or is it exactly backward from how modern readers assume? In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, and Greg work verse by verse through 1 Kings 5-7, wrestling with what it means for God's name to dwell in a building He cannot be contained by, why the temple site had to be silent, whether the carved cherubim and palm trees echo Eden, and what a skeptic should make of chapters filled with cubits and pomegranates. It is a conversation about craftsmanship, covenant, compromise, and why the boring parts of Scripture may be the most historically anchored parts of it.

The Biblical Theology Project opens a brand new book. Joe, Greg, and Eric walk through 1 Kings 1-4, where David's reign ends in political chaos, Adonijah crowns himself without an invitation list, and Solomon consolidates a kingdom through a series of executions the Bible reports without flinching. Along the way the guys wrestle with what it means that God shows up to bless a king who is already compromising, and why Solomon's request for wisdom is a model for prayer without being a promise.

In this episode, the One Accord Podcast wraps up the book of Second Samuel by tackling chapters 20 through 24. From Joab's ruthless return to power and a broken ancient treaty that triggered divine judgment, to the provocative question of whether God can truly be "moved by prayer," this conversation digs into some of the most theologically charged passages in the historical books. The hosts also examine David's census, the nature of free will, and what it means to offer God something that actually costs you.