STORY OF AHAB AND JEZEBEL

AHAB

“Ahab the son of Omri wrought evil in the sight of theLord more than all that were before him…he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshipped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. And Ahab made the Asherah; 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 16:30-33 



KING AHAB ALLOWED THE WORSHIP OF BAAL IN THE NORTHERN ISRAEL BECAUSE OF HIS WIFE JEZEBEL







BAAL IS THE god OF THE PAGAN PEOPLE OF SIDON



POSEIDON is  god of the pagan people of ancient greeks

BAAL WAS ALSO KNOWN TO THE GREEKS AS POSEIDON


Israel’s kings rapidly went from bad to worse. Omri “did worse than all that were before him” (ch. 16:25). Now Ahab does still worse. As God details his history before us, He keeps returning to this sad theme: “Thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah…Surely there was none like to Ahab, who did sell himself to do evil in the sight of yhe Lord, Jezebel Ahab wife urging him on. And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom God had dispossessed before the children of Israel” 
(1 Ki. 21:20,25-26).

Egged on by his wife, Jezebel, a heathen princess from nearby Zidon, Ahab challenges the Lord again and again. He adopts her religion. Israel had often been unfaithful to God in the past, following these abominable fertility idols. Bitter consequences had been the result. Now Ahab officially embraced these heathen gods, building a temple and erecting an altar for Baal in his new capital, Samaria. Jezebel, we find as we go on in the story, killed many of Jehovah’s prophets and sustained and supported at least 850 idolatrous prophets. Light and darkness can never dwell in harmony side by side. They are absolutely incompatible!