AHAB

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• 1 Kings 16:29

  In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

• 1 Kings 16:30

  Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.

• 1 Kings 16:31

  As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

• 1 Kings 16:32

  He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

• 1 Kings 16:33

  Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

• 1 Kings 18:17

  When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

• 1 Kings 18:18

  He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

• 1 Kings 18:19

  Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

• 1 Kings 18:20

  So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

• 1 Kings 18:21

  Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

• 1 Kings 18:22

  Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.

• 1 Kings 18:23

  Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

• 1 Kings 18:24

  You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”

• 1 Kings 18:25

  Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

• 1 Kings 18:26

  They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

• 1 Kings 18:27

  At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

• 1 Kings 18:28

  They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

• 1 Kings 18:29

  When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

• 1 Kings 18:30

  Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.

• 1 Kings 18:31

  Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

• 1 Kings 18:32

  With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

• 1 Kings 18:33

  He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”

• 1 Kings 18:34

  He said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it the third time.

• 1 Kings 18:35

  The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

• 1 Kings 18:36

  At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

• 1 Kings 18:37

  Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

• 1 Kings 18:38

  Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

• 1 Kings 18:39

  When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

• 1 Kings 18:40

  Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

• 1 Kings 18:41

  Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

• 1 Kings 18:42

  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

• 1 Kings 18:43

  He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.” He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

• 1 Kings 18:44

  On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”

• 1 Kings 18:45

  In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 18:46

  Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 20:42

  He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’”

• 1 Kings 21:19

  You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”

• 1 Kings 21:20

  Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 1 Kings 21:21

  Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

• 1 Kings 21:22

  I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”

• 1 Kings 21:23

  Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 21:24

  The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.”

• 1 Kings 21:25

  But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

• 1 Kings 21:26

  He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

• 1 Kings 22:19

  Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

• 1 Kings 22:20

  Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.

• 1 Kings 22:21

  A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’

• 1 Kings 22:22

  Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’

• 1 Kings 22:23

  Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”

• 1 Kings 22:24

  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

• 1 Kings 22:25

  Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”

• 1 Kings 22:26

  The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.

• 1 Kings 22:27

  Say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

• 1 Kings 22:28

  Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”

• 1 Kings 22:40

  So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 3:2

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

• 2 Kings 9:8

  For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

• 2 Kings 9:26

  ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

• 2 Kings 10:1

  Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,

• 2 Kings 10:2

  “Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor,

• 2 Kings 10:3

  Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

• 2 Kings 10:4

  But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”

• 2 Kings 10:5

  He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”

• 2 Kings 10:6

  Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

• 2 Kings 10:7

  When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 10:8

  A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

• 2 Chronicles 21:6

  He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 2 Chronicles 22:3

  He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

• 2 Chronicles 22:4

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

• Jeremiah 29:21

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes.

• Jeremiah 29:22

  A curse shall be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’

• Micah 6:16

  For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”