First Kings continues the narrative of Israel's history that begins in 1 Samuel and runs on through both books of Kings, and most readers struggle with its events and its moral problems in roughly equal measure.

Dale Ralph Davis helps the reader see how it applies in a twenty-first-century setting, using the pastoral application and the dry humor he is known for, and he does not skip the passages other expositors hurry past. Part of the Focus on the Bible series, and the companion to his volumes on Joshua, Judges and Samuel.