Quotes about Ahab
And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 16:28
In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
- 1 Kings 16:29
However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
- 1 Kings 16:30
First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
- 1 Kings 16:32
Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
- 1 Kings 16:33
In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
- 1 Kings 16:34
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- 1 Kings 17:1
After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
- 1 Kings 18:1
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
- 1 Kings 18:2
and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,
- 1 Kings 18:3
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
- 1 Kings 18:5
So they divided the land to explore. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.
- 1 Kings 18:6