{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-611","native_reference":{"book_number":110,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ishodad of Merv</b>: [The Scripture] calls \"something pleasing\" the fact that [Jeroboam] sent his wife to the prophet of God and not to the impostors and diviners. We must constantly admire the mercy of God, who increases many times over every good [action] performed by mortals and then returns it to them. This is quite evident from what he did for that father of the error of the calves and protector of the iniquity of Baal, namely, Ahab. Because of his fast of one day, and the night in which he slept in sackcloth, punishment was averted from his house and his kingdom for three years in order to show [God's] mercy and exhort sinners to repentance.<br/><i>— BOOKS OF SESSIONS 1 Kings 14:13</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"353c01ec3527313e47f5c37800a63d297b47921344659913fa0f32998205b504","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":611,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0d35dcddaa1786d96c05b4e2f2a55619576d1547171e0113b099e0210966e39e","translator":null,"work":null}