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Ahab and Jezebel
How Ahab and Jezebel are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Ahab and Jezebel were married.
Ahab married Jezebel, daughter of the king of the Zidonians, and went on to serve Baal. Kings says she stirred him up to work wickedness.
he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians
1 Kings 16:31, King James Version
whom Jezebel his wife stirred up
1 Kings 21:25, King James Version
Where they cross: 1 Kings 16:30-31
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
1 Kings 16:30-31
30And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
31And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Kings 21:25
25But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
King James Version