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Ahab
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.- 1Ki_21:25.
Ahab did yet more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.- 1Ki_16:33.
The kingdom of Israel had gone on from bad to worse. It was a bad beginning when the ten tribes revolted from the rule of the house of David; when they elected “Jeroboam the son of Nebat,” that mighty but unscrupulous man of valour, to rule over them as their king. It was a bad beginning when, from motives of state policy, Jeroboam prevented his people from worshipping God at Jerusalem, and set up the calves at Dan and at Bethel. It was a bad beginning when he set up at one and the same time a rival kingdom and a rival Church. But things were far worse in the days of Ahab. Fifty years had passed away, and the consequences of the policy of Jeroboam were beginning to develop themselves. Nadab, Baasba, Elah, Zimri, and Omri had successively sat upon the newly erected throne of Israel, and of each it might be said he exceeded in wickedness all that had gone before him. Ahab succeeded Omri, and of him it is distinctly said that he “did yet more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.” It was he who, at the instigation of Jezebel, introduced the worship of Baal into the land, and made it one vast moral wilderness.
