Author
Acknowledgements
My sincere thanks to my wife, for her unending love and patience. She has endured more travel and life events than could be expected, yet she remains strong and true.
She is also a notable artist, and graciously allows me to use her images for the covers of my books.
Also many thanks to Professor and Pastor David Munk, who proof read the manuscript, and was available for many questions and discussions.
Prologue
This book, as well as the Joseph book, was the result of mild frustration with the lack of human detail in most of the stories in the Bible. The big events are there, but not the small things that humans find interesting.
The major events, time line, distances and people are all biblically correct. The details are the result of much research into the lives of people in the time of the Pharoahs, as well as many ideas and descriptions of events found only in the writings of Josephus (a Roman historian), the Apochrypha, the Lost Books of the Bible, and the books of Jasher.
Chapter 1
Ahab el Omri gloomily surveyed the dust and heat that were obvious through the entrance to his large and comfortable house. Barely noticing the sweating slave who wielded the fan which kept him cool, Ahab thought of the events which led up to his present situation. The drought, the people dissatisfied with his rule, his angry wife.
His father, Omri the Chieftain, had laid the foundation for the style of rulership and way of life that he, Ahab, followed, as well as the foundations of the city of Samaria that Ahab had so ably continued building. Omri had definitely not worshipped at the altar of Yahweh, the omniscient all-controlling god that the tribes of Judah and Israel were supposed to worship. And they HAD worshipped Yahweh, right up until the end of the reign of Solomon, that horse and gold-loving son of David.
But then even Solomon was not perfect. Towards the end of his reign he had taken to worshiping idols, like Chemosh, god of Moab, and Molech, the god of Ammon. Disgusting! Of course, Solomon had been greatly influenced by his numerous wives - they wore him down. Ahab shook his head, smiling to himself. How a man could possibly deal with seven hundred wives, plus three hundred concubines. What could he want with
