See also:

• AHAB (in Heb. 'ah'(ib, " father's brother ")

AHAB (in Heb. 'ah'(ib, " See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• BROTHER

brother ")  , See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel, the son and successor of See also:

• OMRI

Omri, • ascended the See also:

• THRONE

throne about 875 B.C . (I See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Kings xvi . 29-34)• He married See also:

• JEZEBEL (Heb. i-zebel, perhaps an artificial form to suggest " un-exalted," a divine name or its equivalent would naturally be expected instead of the first syllable)

Jezebel, the daughter of the king of See also:

• SIDON (Phoen. ins, Hebrew 1-rs, Assyr. Sidunnu, Egypt. Diduna)

Sidon, and the affiance was doubtless the means of procuring him See also:

• GREAT

great riches, which brought pomp and luxury in their See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train . We read of his See also:

• BUILDING

building an See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace and See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding new cities, the effect perhaps of a See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the flourishing See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce of See also:

• PHOENICIA

Phoenicia.' The material prosperity of his reign, which is comparable with that of See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

Solomon a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century before, was overshadowed by the religious changes which his See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage involved . Although he was a worshipper of Yahweh, as the names of his See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children prove (cp. also xxii . 5 seq.), his wife was firmly attached to the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of the Tyrian See also:

• BAAL

Baal, Melkart, and led by her he gave a great impulse to this cult by building a See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Baal in See also:

• SAMARIA

Samaria . This roused the indignation of those prophets whose aim it was to purify the worship of Yahweh (see See also:

• ELIJAH (a Hebrew name meaning " Yah[weh] is God ")

ELIJAH) . During See also:

• AHAB (in Heb. 'ah'(ib, " father's brother ")

Ahab's reign See also:

• MOAB

Moab, which had been conquered by his See also:

• FATHER

father, remained tributary; See also:

• JUDAH

Judah, with whose king, See also:

• JEHOSHAPHAT (Heb. " Yahweh judges ")

Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his See also:

• VASSAL (Fr. vassal, vassaut, vassault, &c,)

vassal; only with See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus is he said to have had strained relations . The one event mentioned by See also:

• EXTERNAL

external See also:

• SOURCES

sources is the See also:

• BATTLE

battle at Karlar (perhaps See also:

• APAMEA

Apamea), where See also:

• SHALMANESER [Ass. Sulmanu-afarid, " the god Sulman (Solomon) is chief "]

Shalmaneser II. of See also:

• ASSYRIA

Assyria fought a great See also:

• CONFEDERATION (Fr. confederation, Lat. confoederatio, from foedus, a league, foederare, to form a league)

confederation of princes from See also:

• CILICIA

Cilicia, N . See also:

• SYRIA

Syria, Israel, See also:

• AMMON
• AMMON, CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1766—185o)

Ammon and the tribes of the Syrian See also:

• DESERT

desert (854 B.c.) . Here Aliabbu See also:

• SIR

Sir'lai (Ahab the Israelite) with Baasha, son of Rubub (Kebob) of Ammon and nine others are allied with Bir-'idri (See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben-See also:

• HADAD

hadad), Ahab's contribution being reckoned at 2000 chariots and 10,00o men . The See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers are comparatively large and possibly include forces from See also:

• TYRE (Phoen. and Hebr. =" rock," Assyr. S'urru, Egypt. Dara, Early Lat. Sarra)

Tyre, Judah, See also:

• EDOM

Edom and Moab .

The See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian king claimed a victory, but his immediate return and subsequent expeditions in 849 and 846 against a similar but unspecified See also:

• COALITION (Lat. coalitio, the verbal substantive of coalescere, to grow together)

coalition seem to show that he met with no lasting success . According to the Old Testament narratives, however, Ahab with 7000 troops had previously overthrown Ben-hadad and his See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-two kings, who had come to See also:

• LAY

lay See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege to Samaria, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year obtained a remarkable victory over him at Aphek, probably in the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of See also:

• SHARON

Sharon (r Kings xx.) . A treaty was made whereby Ben-hadad restored the cities which his father had taken from Ahab's father (i.e . Omri, but see xv . 20, 2 Kings xiii . 25), and trading facilities between Damascus and Samaria were granted . A See also:

• LATE

late popular See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story (xx . 35-42, akin in See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone to xii . 33-xiii . 34) condemned Ahab for his leniency and foretold the destruction of the king and his See also:

• LAND

land . Three years later, See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out on the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of See also:

• JORDAN (the down-comer; Arab. esh-Sheri'a, the watering-place)
• JORDAN, CAMILLE (1771—1821)
• JORDAN, DOROTHEA (1762—1816)
• JORDAN, THOMAS (1612 ?–1685)
• JORDAN, WILHELM (1819–1904)

Jordan, and Ahab with Jehoshaphat of Judah went to recover Ramoth-See also:

• GILEAD (i.e. " hard " or " rugged," a name sometimes used, both in earlier and in later writers, to denote the whole of the territory occupied by the Israelites eastward of Jordan, extending from the Arnon to the southern base of Hermon (Dent. xxxiv. 1; J

Gilead and was mortally wounded (xxii.) . He was succeeded by his sons (See also:

• AHAZIAH (" he whom Yahweh sustains ")

Ahaziah and See also:

• JEHORAM, or JORAM (Heb. " Yah[weh] is high ")

Jehoram) .

It is very difficult to obtain any clear See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of these events (LXX. places i Kings xxi. immediately after xix.) . How the hostile kings of Israel and Syria came to fight a See also:

• COMMON

common enemy, and how to correlate the Assyrian and Biblical records, are questions which have perplexed all See also:

• RECENT

recent writers . The reality of the difficulties will be apparent from the fact that it has been suggested that the Assyrian See also:

• SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGENE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

scribe wrote " Ahab " for his son " Jehoram " (Kamphausen, Chronol. d. hebr . Kon., Kittel), and that the very See also:

• IDENTIFICATION (Lat. idem, the same)

identification of the name with Ahab of Israel has been questioned (See also:

• HORNER, FRANCIS (1778–1817)
• HORNER, LEONARD (1785-1864)

Horner, Proc . See also:

• SOC

Soc . Bibl . See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

Arch., 1898, p . 244).2 Whilst the above passages in 1 Kings view Ahab not unfavourably, there are others which give a less friendly picture . The tragic See also:

• MURDER

murder of Naboth (see JEZEBEL), an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of royal encroachment, stirred up popular resentment just as the new cult aroused the opposition of certain of the prophets . The latter found their See also:

• CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion in Elijah, whose See also:

• HISTORY

history reflects the prophetic teaching of more than one See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . (See KINGS.) His denunciation of the royal See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the keynote to a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period which culminated in the See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of See also:

• JEHU

Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple See also:

• ELISHA (a Hebrew name meaning " God is deliverance ")

Elisha was the leading figure . The allusions to the statutes and See also:

• WORKS

works of Omri and Ahab in Mic. vi .

16 may point to legislative See also:

• MEASURES

measures of these kings, and the reference to the incidents at the building of See also:

• JERICHO (WI:, m;, once ahn:, a word of disputed meaning, whether " fragrant " or " moon [-god] city ")

Jericho (1 Kings xvi . 34) may be taken to show that See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation sacrifices, See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar ' Ahab's ivory palace found its imitators (t Kings xxii . 39; Am. iii . 15) . The ivory was probably brought by the Phoenicians from See also:

• CYPRUS
• CYPRUS, CHURCH OF

Cyprus or from one of the works on the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor . ' See the discussions by See also:

• CHEYNE, THOMAS KELLY (1841— )

Cheyne, Ency . Bib. See also:

• COL
• COL (Fr. for " neck," Lat. collum)

col . 91 seq., and by Whitehouse, Dict . Bib. i . 53.in nearly all parts of the See also:

• WORLD

world, were not unknown in Israel at this period .3 This has in fact been confirmed by excavation in See also:

• PALESTINE

Palestine . Another Ahab is known only as an impious See also:

• PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

prophet in the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the Babylonian See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile (Jer. See also:

• XXIX

xxix . 21) .

(S . A . C.) 'AHAI, of Sabha, an 8th-century Talmudist of high renown . He was author of Quaestiones (Sheiltoth), a collection of homilies (at once learned and popular) on Jewish See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

ethics . This is recorded to have been the first See also:

• WORK

work written by a Jewish See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar after the completion of the See also:

• TALMUD

Talmud .