Omri (; short for ) was a king of Israel, successful military campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab, Ahaziah and Joram.

Cherith (; also Chorath or ; or נחל חרת ; ; or Χοῤῥάθ means a cutting, separation, gorge, torrent-bed, or winter-stream, is a valley (" wadi "; ) or stream (" nahal "; ) in whose banks the prophet Elijah hid himself during the early part of the three years ' drought which he announced to King Ahab.

Elijah then goes beyond the prophecy he was given and tells Ahab that his entire kingdom will reject his authority ; that Jezebel will be eaten by dogs within Jezreel ; and that his family will be consumed by dogs as well ( if they die in a city ) or by birds ( if they die in the country ).

Obadiah's fear of God was one degree higher than that of Abraham ; and if the house of Ahab had been capable of being blessed, it would have been blessed for Obadiah's sake.

He would often appear as a character in a sketch ; in the second series, when Horne decides he wants to be a seaside end-of-the-pier-show impresario, one of the acts he auditions is Dentures as ' The Great Omipaloni, the world's fastest illusionist-and also the dampest '; in the third series he was Captain Ahab in the first part of The Admirable Loombucket ; also in the same series, in The Big Top, Luigi Omipaloni, the trapeze artist at Cuckpowder's Mammoth Circus, and Buffalo Sidney Goosecreature, the fearless desperado and adversary of The Palone Ranger ; in the fourth series in Apache Story, he is Rain In The Face-Kenneth Williams, as Billy Two Cheeks, exclaims " He speaks with forked tongue!

In the Books of Kings, Elijah challenges 450 prophets of a particular Baal to a contest at the altar on Mount Carmel to determine whose deity was genuinely in control of the Kingdom of Israel ; since the narrative is set during the rule of Ahab and his association with the Phoenicians, biblical scholars suspect that the Baal in question was probably Melqart.

Omri and Ithobaal were both usurpers ; neither was the member of a royal family before they took the throne, and so it is not reasonable that, before they became kings, an Israelite general would seek out a priest of Astarte in the kingdom of Tyre and Sidon to get a wife for his young son Ahab.

# King Ahab of Israel sent 2, 000 chariots and 10, 000 soldiers ;

Further on is a grain pit from the Israelite period for storing provisions in case of siege ; the stables, originally thought to date from the time of Solomon but now dated a century and a half later to the time of Ahab ; and a water system consisting of a square shaft deep, the bottom of which opens into a tunnel bored through rock for to a pool of water.

Yigael Yadin, one of the earliest archaeologists to work on the site, saw certain features as clearly being Omride ; Megiddo, Gezer, and Hazor, all feature deep rock cut pits, from the base of which were rock cut tunnels leading to a well that reached the water table, as water-supply systems, which Yadin attributed to the rule of Ahab ; Yadin also attributed to Ahab a citadel, measuring 25 x 21 m, with two-meter thick walls, which was erected in the western part of Hazor.

Ahab was succeeded by Ahaziah and Jehoram who reigned over Israel until Jehu's revolt of 842 BC.

Ahab married Jezebel, the daughter of the King of Tyre, and the alliance was doubtless the means of procuring political support.

1 Kings chapters 16 – 22 tells the story of Ahab and Jezebel, and indicates that Jezebel was a bad influence on Ahab.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

During this battle Ahab disguised himself, but was mortally wounded by an unaimed arrow ( ch.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

Ahab was succeeded by his sons, Ahaziah and Jehoram.

Ahab himself was not a wicked person, but he was easily influenced by his wife, and this led to his destruction.

Arabic: إلياس, Ilyās ), was a famous prophet and a wonder-worker in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of Ahab ( 9th century BC ), according to the Books of Kings.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

He is identified with the Obadiah who was the servant of Ahab, and it is said that he was chosen to prophesy against Edom because he was himself an Edomite.

Omri's rule over Israel was secure enough that he could bequeath his kingdom to Ahab, thus beginning a new dynasty ( sometimes called the Omrides ), and his descendants not only ruled over the kingdom of Israel for the next forty years, but also briefly over Judah.

Most threatening, however, was the ascendancy of Assyria, which was beginning to expand westward from Mesopotamia: the Battle of Qarqar ( 853 BC ), which pitted Shalmaneser III of Assyria against a coalition of local kings, including Ahab, was the first clash between Assyria and Israel.

Ahab became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa, king of Judah, and reigned for twenty-two years.

This encounter ends with Elijah victorious over the official Baal prophets of Israel in a contest held for the sake of the Israelites and their king, Ahab.

Omri achieved domestic security with a marriage alliance between his son Ahab and princess Jezebel, a priestess of Baal and the daughter of the king of Sidon in Phoenicia.

Israel had clearly emerged by the middle of the 9th century BCE, when the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III names " Ahab the Israelite " among his enemies at the battle of Qarqar ( 853 ).

* the servant of king Ahab of Israel ().

Archaeologically speaking, it would appear that Omri was recognized internationally as the founder of the Israelite Kingdom, though Ahab is actually the first king of Israel to appear in non-Israelite sources.

* 874 BC: Ahab becomes king of Kingdom of Israel ( approximate date ).

* 854 BC or 853 BC — Shalmaneser III battles a Syrian coalition ( including king Ahab of Kingdom of Israel and Hadadezer ) in the battle of Karkar.

* 874 BC — Ahab becomes king of Israel ( approximate date ).

relates that Ahab, king of Israel, married Jezebel, daughter of Ethba ’ al, king of the Sidonians, and then served habba ’ al (' the Baʿal '.

In 853 BC a coalition which was formed by the kingdoms of Egypt, Hamath, Arvad, the Ammonites, " Ahab of Israel " and other neighboring states, under the leadership of king Hadadezer of Damascus, fought the Assyrian king at Battle of Qarqar.

The Black Obelisk names Jehu son of Omri and the Kurkh Monolith names king Ahab in reference to the Battle of Karkar.

Ithobaal held close diplomatic contacts with king Ahab of Israel.

It has also been suggested that the Ba ‘ al of Tyre, Melqart " king of the city " ( who was probably the Ba ‘ al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house ) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart / Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.

The Battle of Qarqar ( or Ḳarḳar ) was fought in 853 BC when the army of Assyria led by king Shalmaneser III encountered an allied army of twelve kings at Qarqar led by Hadadezer ( also called Adad-idr and possibly to be identified with Benhadad II ) of Damascus and King Ahab of Israel.

Shalmaneser's opponents held on to their thrones after this battle: though Ahab of Israel died shortly afterwards in an unrelated battle, Hadadezer was king of Damascus until at least 841 BC.

850 BC ) was king of Israel and the son of Ahab and Jezebel.

In 1 Kings 22: 3-4 the King of Israel ( identified later in the text as Ahab in 1 Kings 22: 20 ) goes to Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and asks if he will go with him to take over Ramoth-gilead which was under rule by the king of Aram.

Micaiah appears before the king of Israel, and when asked if Ahab should go into battle at Ramoth-gilead Micaiah initially responds with a similar prophecy to that of the other prophets.