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1 Kings 16:31-33

1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 Kings 16:31 went and served Baal and worshiped him... made an Asherah. The Israelite king Ahab, son of Omri, added to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat by marrying a foreign woman, Jezebel. She inevitably led him into the worship of Baal. Baal is a title (meaning “lord”) for the ancient Semitic god Hadad. Hadad was considered to be a storm god. The fertility of the land depended on his sending rain.

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See also 1 Kings 16:31-33 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 16:31. _HE TOOK TO WIFE JEZEBEL_] This was the head and chief of his offending; he took to wife, not only a _heathen_, but one whose hostility to the true religion was well known, and ca...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AS IF IT HAD BEEN A LIGHT THING FOR HIM TO WALK IN THE SINS OF JEROBOAM - Idolatries are not exclusive. Ahab, while he detested the pure worship of Yahweh, and allowed Jezebel to put to death every “p...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. KINGS OF ISRAEL Chapter S 15:25-16 _ 1. Nadab, King of Israel (1 Kings 15:25)_ 2. Baasha, King of Israel (1 Kings 15:34; 1 Kings 16:1) 3. Elah, King of Israel ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 KINGS 15:33 TO 1 KINGS 16:34. BAASHA'S DYNASTY. RISE OF THE HOUSE OF OMRI. Nothing is told us of Baasha except the usual annalistic details, and, that a prophet named Jehu foretold the destruction o...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JEZEBEL, daughter of. regicide and fratricide (Josephus _c. Apion_ 1, 18, _Antiquities_ viii. 3, 1), priest of the Phoenician goddess Astarte....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _as if it had been a light thing_ i.e. He was unwarned by all the visitations which had befallen the kings before him for their worship of the calves. He went further than this and introduced the wors...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. THE OMRI DYNASTY 16:21-34 The Omri dynasty ruled Israel for forty-four years. The closing verses of chapter 16 contain brief notices concerning (1) Omri's rise to power (1 Kings 16:21-22); (2) the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REIGNS OF ELAH, ZIMRI, AND OMRI 1. Jehu the son of Hanani] Hanani is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 16:7. Jehu's denunciation of Baasha is similar to Ahijah's denunciation of Jeroboam (1 Kings 14:7)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SERVED BAAL] Baal was merely a title (meaning 'lord' or 'owner') and was applicable to a number of deities (hence the plural Baalim) who were described as the Baals of particular localities ('Baal Peo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 16 V1 Then the *Lord spoke to Jehu the son of Hanani. He gave him this message for Baasha. V2 ‘You were not an important person, but I ma...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ETHBAAL, KING OF THE ZIDONIANS. — The mention of Ethbaal, clearly the _Eithobalus_ of Menander (see Jos. _against Apion_ i. 18), affords another comparison of Israelite with Tyrian history. He is said...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִי֙ הֲ נָקֵ֣ל לֶכְתֹּ֔ו בְּ חַטֹּ֖אות

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    KING AHAB AND QUEEN JEZEBEL 1 Kings 16:29 "Besides what that grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said." - LYCIDAS OMRI was succeeded by his son Ahab, whose eventful reign of u...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE KINGS OF ISRAEL FROM ZIMRI TO AHAB 1 Kings 16:11 As far as we can understand from our meager authorities-and we have no independent source of information-we infer that Elah, son of the powerful B...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SIN'S CLIMAX SUMMONS JEHOVAH'S PROPHET 1 Kings 16:29; 1 Kings 17:1 From the beginning of his reign Ahab set aside both the First and the Second Commandment. His marriage with Jezebel, the young and b...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the account of how Jehu was called on to exercise judgment against Baasha. This being accomplished, Elah succeeded Baasha on the throne of Israel. He was so corrupt as to be found "drinki...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And 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 (m) to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Jezabel, whose name is become proverbial, to designate a proud, lewd, cruel, and impious woman, Apocalypse ii. 20. Grotius compares her with Tullia, Fulvia, and Eudoxia, the respective wives of Tarqui...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (29) В¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. (30) And A...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14, 15, AND 16. In spite of this testimony, Jeroboam perseveres in his sin. The only one of his sons in whom any piety is seen dies; and the judgment of God...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS IF IT HAD BEEN A LIGHT THING FOR HIM TO WALK IN THE SIN OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT,.... To worship the golden calves he set up: THAT HE TOOK TO WIFE JEZEBEL THE DAUGHTER OF...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And 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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _In the thirty and eighth year of Asa_, &c. Asa saw six kings of Israel buried, while Judah flourished under him, the length of whose reign was doubtless a great advantage to them. _Began Ahab the son...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1.7 Iehus prophesie against Baasha. 5 Elah succeedeth him. 8 Zimri conspiring against Elah, succeedeth him. 11 Zimri executeth Iehus prophesie. 15 Omri made King by the souldiers, forceth Zimri de...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And 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, the horror of the situation being brought out still more strongly by a parenthetical ques...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE RULE OF OMRI AND OF AHAB...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    The Lord had another servant to bring a solemn message to Baasha. Jehu, the son of Hanani, was the messenger at this time (v.1). Though the history records that Baasha had murdered his master to take...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AS IF IT HAD BEEN A LIGHT THING: _ Heb._ was it a light thing? etc....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    29-34 Ahab did evil above all that reigned before him, and did it with a particular enmity both against Jehovah and Israel. He was not satisfied with breaking the second commandment by image-worship,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AS IF IT HAD BEEN A LIGHT THING FOR HIM; as if that sin were not big enough to express his contempt of God; as if he thought it below his wit and dignity to content himself with such a vulgar fault. B...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 16:31 thing H7043 (H8738) walk H3212 (H8800) sins H2403 Jeroboam H3379 son H1121 Nebat H5028 took...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REIGN OF AHAB KING OF ISRAEL C. 872-851 BC (1 KINGS 16:29 TO 1 KINGS 22:40). The reigns of the previous seven kings of Judah and Israel have been covered in a short space (1 Kings 15:1 to...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AN INITIAL SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF AHAB (1 KINGS 16:29). The account of Ahab's reign commences with an initial summary of his reign indicating its corruption in the eyes of YHWH. We can compare the in...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Evil reigns of Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, Ahab kings of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Baasha, Jehu, Elah, Zimri, Omri, Ahab, Jezebel, Tibni, Hiel, Segub. CONCLUSION: Destruction, when it comes,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Kings 16:2. _I exalted thee._ Baasha was raised from the ranks to regal dignity. 1 Kings 16:7. _Jehu son of Hanani_ the prophet; the only case I think in which a Father and a son were so favoured....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 16:30. AHAB, THE SON OF OMRI—A name fraught with woe for Israel! 1 Kings 16:30. TOOK TO WIFE JEZEBEL—_Ethbaal_, her royal father, murdered his own brother (k...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE REIGN OF AHAB.—With the accession of Ahab a new main section of our history begins—the section which has its close in the destruction of the house of Omri by Jehu, as related in 2 Kings...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So the word of the LORD came to Jehu the prophet unto Baasha, saying, Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, made thee prince over my people Israel; and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, a...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 11:1; 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 19:1

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A light thing — The Hebrew runs, was it a light thing, &c, that is, was this but a small sin, that therefore he needed to add more abominations? Where the question, as is usual among the Hebrews, impl...

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