Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Ahab made a grove - Asherah , Astarte, or Venus; what the Syriac calls an idol, and the Arabic, a tall tree; probably meaning, by the last, an image of Priapus, the obscene keeper of groves, orchards, and gardens.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Kings 16:33:
1 Kings 16:31
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