 | John Kitto - 1861
...Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 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." The Lord would not, however, punish even Ahab without due and sufficient warning. Accordingly, He meets... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1861
...honour a temple in Samaria, raised in it an altar, and made a grove ; doing ' more tu provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him' (I Kings xvi. 3], seq.). The tea tribes, after Iheir separation, were more inclined to idolatry (1... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1862
...the house of the Baal which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab did more to provoke the Jehovah Elohim of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him" (1 Kings xvi, 31.) " And Elijah said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Jehovah be the Elohim,... | |
 | rev. Frederick Calder - 1862
...former. Elijah lived in the reign of Ahab, of whom it is said that he " did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him ; and this eminent prophet was sent especially to reprove and punish him. Ahab had married Jezebel,... | |
 | John Edward Kempe - 1862
...of Baal which he had built in Samaria. 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." It is among the many proofs whicli the Old Testament history supplies of the forbearance and long-suffering... | |
 | David Austin Randall - 1862 - 714 pàgines
...wildest excesses of heathen abominations, so much •BO, it is said, he "did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." Here was the scene of some of the striking events in the lira of Elijah and Elisha. The King of Syria... | |
 | John Eadie - 1862
...every geen tree. 1 Kings xvl, 38. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God ol hen the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of g 2 Kings xll, 3. But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense... | |
 | Marianne Parrott - 1863
...the present time, when, to use the words of Scripture, " Ahab their king did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that had gone before him;" and it is humbling to us, as women, to find that the excess of sin into which... | |
 | 1864
...for the vile career he ran by this estimate of his demerits, that "he did mon- to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." He commenced by an unlawful alliance with Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians.... | |
 | Christian seasons - 1864
...contrasted favourably with Ahab; in that it is said of the latter that " he did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him;" and " there was none like unto Ahab which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord."... | |
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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. 
