Quotes About Ahab

Meanwhile a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ëDo you see this entire great army? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this very day, and you will know that I am the LORD.í”

“By whom?” Ahab asked. And the prophet replied, “This is what the LORD says: ëBy the young officers of the district governors.í” “Who will start the battle?” asked Ahab. “You will,” answered the prophet.

So Ahab assembled the young officers of the district governors, and there were 232 men. And after them, he assembled the rest of the Israelite troops, 7,000 in all.

Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, and they quickly grasped at this word and replied, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” “Go and get him!” said the king. Then Ben-hadad came out, and Ahab had him come up into his chariot.

Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

“Get up and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. See, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, of which he has gone to take possession.

This is what the LORD says: ëI will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.

Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”

“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”

And the LORD said, ëWho will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?í And one suggested this, and another that.

And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahabís blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.

As for the rest of the acts of Ahab, along with all his accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

In the fourth year of Ahabís reign over Israel, Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah.

In the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphatís reign over Judah, Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria two years.

After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphatís reign over Judah, Jehoram son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twelve years.

But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.

And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.

The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.

I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.