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KING AHAB Introduction This essay is a description of King Ahab through biblical and extra biblical evidence and the extent to which these sources inform our understating of the bible. The biblical sources will include: Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Spirit Filled Bible, NKJV and Biblegate.com. The extra biblical sources used will be 1 & 2 Kings. NIVAC (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996) and The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopaedia of the Bible. An artist impression of King Ahab BIBLICA TEXT Ahab the son of Omri ascended to the throne of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah (1 Kings 16:29) a Ahab reigned over the northern Kingdom for twenty-two years with his capital in Samaria. He married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians…

Omri’s followers overthrow Tibni’s and he became king of Israel. This division within in already divided kingdom is almost comical, but it really emphasizes how stubborn the Israelites were and that they are a people with no exception to the human desire for power. It is also important to note that almost every time a new ruler comes to power during this era of the split Israeli nation, they are referenced by how many years the king of the other side of the nation has been in reign, so here in 1…

The third item to notice about Micaiah is his response (22:15-28). After Micaiah swears to only speak what the Lord speaks, Ahab asks him whether or not the Lord supports his plan against Ramoth Gilead. Micaiah initially replies in the same way as the other prophets, but Ahab is skeptical (22:15). As we mentioned earlier, Ahab’s skepticism stemmed from Micaiah’s reputation. Because of this, he sarcastically asks Micaiah how many times he must make Micaiah swear to tell nothing but the truth…

1930:58). Of course, this argument relies entirely on the Hebrew Bible, with no other written sources to substantiate this story. Regardless, archaeology and extrabiblical inscriptions do indicate that Judah and Israel were separate kingdoms by the ninth century B.C.E. At this point in history, inscriptions begin to appear referring to both Israel and the House of David, clearly treating them as two separate kingdoms. For example, the Mesha Stele, an ancient inscription of the Moabite king,…

He would wed his son Ahab to Jezebel, as an effort to maintain peace, and assist in economic and military growth, “And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord,more than all who were before him.” (1 Kings 16:30) “And it came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him” (1 Kings…

marry Bathsheba. When she had the child, it became deathly ill, which caused David to go into a period of prayer and fasting. The child still passed away, but David took it as his punishment. King David wrote more than half of Psalms. As you can tell by his writings in Psalms that his number one purpose was to have a relationship with God. Samaria According to the site Bible Gateway Samaria was founded in 875 B.C. by Omri. Samaria was located on a hilltop North of Jerusalem. It was the…

In this essay I am going to be discussing who killed King Ahab. Some important questions that arise in relation to this narrative are the questions of, who deceives whom? How is the character of the prophet complicated and the nature of the prophecies complicated by this narrative? And how is the character of God complicated by this narrative? These are the questions that I will be trying to clarify in this essay. Noted in 1 Kings 22, the historian tells us that ‘For three years Aram and Israel…

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…

Chapter seven talks about psychosocial development after the first two years of birth. A child at this moment develops emotional, brain, emotions, and social bonds. The topic that interested me from the chapter is about attachment. It is interesting how a person’s attachment as a child follows into adulthood. This essay will be talking about the types of an attachment a person has can follow into other aspects in of life. “Attachment style, thought to play a central role in romantic and…

son named Abijah dies due to his father's sins. Hence, Jeroboam reigns for only twenty- two years before he dies and his son Nadab becomes king. Whereas, Rehoboam dies after seventeen years and his son Abijam rules in his place. Jeroboam and Rehoboam but have heirs that rule differently. Nadab is just as wicked as his father whereas Abijam is a good king that gets rid of all the pagan idols expect for the temples. Baasha kills Nadab and enters into a war with Asa who later dies. In chapter…