Quoting from “For the Love of God, Volume 1, October 13”   FIRST AND 2 KINGS narrate the declining fortunes of both the northern and south- ern kingdoms. Occasionally there is a reforming king in one realm or the other. But on the whole the direction is downward. Some orientation (1Kings 16): (1) Although 1 and 2 Kings … More D.A. Carson: On the whole the direction is downward