Ahab
The story of King Ahab is found from 1 Kings 16:28 to 2 Chronicles 22). He is also mentioned in Jeremiah and Micah.[1]
Ahab was the seventh king of Israel, the son and successor of King Omri and the husband of Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible presents Ahab as a wicked king, particularly for condoning Jezebel's influence on policies of religion through the covetous practices of idolatry[2] And he played a principal role behind Naboth's execution to get his wealth.
After the Assyrians were defeated the alliance with these other kings broke up and Ahab met his death fighting the Syrians in a vain attempt to recover Ramoth-Gilead which also had disastrous consequences for the kingdom of Israel and its people.
He is declared to be the worst person in the Hebrew Bible(1 Kings 25:) seemingly because he repeats the infamous crimes of King Saul, King David, and King Solomon.
During the year 677 BC, there were twelve rulers of states of the Land of Hath or Hittites Beyond the River "provided corvee labor" to cut and deliver trees from Lebanon to Esarhaddon king of Assyria who was building a new palace at Nineveh.
About the same time Manasseh was now sole ruler of Judah and put heavy economic burdens through taxation. This oppression in Tyre, Assyria’s favored state, included the Canaanite cult practices that Hezekiah had removed. This included what has been described as the worship of Baal. This has been compared with Ahab of Israel (2 Kings 21:3) which is a return to the bondage of Egypt.
- ↑ Jeremiah 29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; 22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee 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 the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
- ↑ Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.