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THE SIMILARITIES IN THE LIVES OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, BAASHA THE SON OF AHIJA AND AHAB THE SON OF OMRI. The similarities in the lives of these men, Jeroboam, Baasha and Ahab, are not farfetched as they seem to live the life that is detected by one person. Each of these men ruled the Northern Kingdom of Israel at one time or the other at the beginning of this Kingdom therefore they set the standard for the future of the Kingdom, they made the children of Israel to sin against God through idol worship.( Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel ,And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son

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