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1 Kings 16:33 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 16 · verse 33
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.1 Kings 16:33 · King James Version
1 Kings 16:33 in context
31And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
33And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
34In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- groveʼăshêrâhAsherah a Phoenician goddessH842 →
- angerkaʻaçto troubleH3707 →
- kingsmeleka kingH4428 →
- AhabʼAchʼâbAchab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at BabylonH256 →
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We have here the beginning of the reign of Ahab, of whom we have more particulars recorded than of any of the kings of Israel. We have here only a general idea given us of him, as the worst of all the kings, that we may expect what the particulars will be.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 29-34