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1 Kings 16:33

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33 And Ahab made an 1Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger 2than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
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1 Kings 16:33 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 16:33

And Ahab made a grove
About the temple of Baal, or elsewhere, in which he placed an idol, and where all manner of filthiness was secretly committed; or rather "Asherah", rendered "grove", is Astarte, the goddess of the Zidonians, an image of which Ahab made:

and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all
the kings of Israel that were before him:
his idolatries being more open and barefaced, and without any excuse, presence, or colour, as well as more numerous.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Kings 16:33 In-Context

31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
32 He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
34 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

Cross References 2

  • 1. 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 13:6; 2 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Chronicles 14:3; [Exodus 34:13; Jeremiah 17:2]
  • 2. [See ver. 30 above]
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