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  • Rizpah on the Rock

    Rizpah and the Bones of the Sons · 2 Samuel 21:1-14

    Through three years of famine, a king finds an old grievance to settle. A concubine of the dead king carries a sackcloth up the rock at Gibeah and refuses to come down.

  • The Voice in the Stillness

    Elijah at Horeb · 1 Kings 19:1-18

    Fleeing Jezebel's death warrant into the wilderness, Elijah collapses under a broom tree and begs to die — until God meets him not in wind or earthquake or fire, but in the sound of sheer silence.

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