SAMARIA — According to insiders, King Ahab of Israel lamented a recent meeting he had with the prophet Elijah, admitting that just once he would like the prophets to say God is pleased and that everything is fine and dandy.

Prophets are always telling him about droughts or lost battles or that he will die, and it's not fun, says the king. "Just once, I'd really like God to say I was doing a good job, you know?"

Ahab recalled in his first meeting with the prophet Elijah, that he had tried to be friendly as he greeted the prophet, asking him if he liked all the cool statues of Baal he had built. But the prophet only answered: "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."

At the time Ahab had been blindsid

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