I Kings 16:8-34
Dear RTB’ers,
Elah, Zimri, Tibni, Omri, Ahab – a succession of kings of Israel, none of whom sought the true God. In fact, they almost seemed to compete with one another to in doing evil: Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more evil than all who were before him… And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him… Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. (vv. 25, 30, 33b) Of all the evil that these kings of Israel committed, none seems to offend God more than the worship of other gods: Ahab…went and served Baal and worshiped him. He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. (vv. 31b-32) The writer of Kings does not have much good to say about Israel and its kings.
And so we meet Ahab and Jezebel; we’ll be with them for a while.
Blessings.
Fred