1 Kings 16:31 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Kings 16:31

Ahab Reigns in Israel

29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

30 Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.

31 And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^athat he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the ^bSidonians; ^cand he went and served Baal and worshiped him.

32 Then he set up an altar for Baal in ^athe temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

33 ^aAnd Ahab made a wooden image. Ahab ^bdid more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

34 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation¹ with Abiram his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, ^aaccording to the word of the Lord, which He had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.

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Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him—The worship of God by symbols had hitherto been the offensive form of apostasy in Israel, but now gross idolatry is openly patronized by the court. This was done through the influence of Jezebel, Ahab's queen. She was "the daughter of Eth-baal, king of the Zidonians." He was priest of Ashtaroth or Astarte, who, having murdered Philetes, king of Tyre, ascended the throne of that kingdom, being the eighth king since Hiram. Jezebel was the wicked daughter of this regicide and idol priest—and, on her marriage with Ahab, never rested till she had got all the forms of her native Tyrian worship introduced into her adopted country.

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