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Ahab and married
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.
relates that Ahab, king of Israel, married Jezebel, daughter of Ethba ’ al, king of the Sidonians, and then served habba ’ al (' the Baʿal '.
First Kings 16: 31 relates that his daughter Jezebel married Ahab ( 874 – 853 BC ), and Phoenician influence in Samaria and the other Israelite cities was extensive.
These verses say that Jehoram of Judah did wickedly " because he married a daughter of Ahab.
But, assuming for now that Jezebel was her mother, some upper limits can be placed on when Ahab and Jezebel were married, and hence the upper limit on when Athaliah could have been born.
There is no statement in Scripture that names her mother, and if Ahab fathered Athaliah by an otherwise unknown wife several years before he married Jezebel, the chronological argument would not hold.
She married King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom ( i. e. Israel during the time when ancient Israel was divided into Israel in the north and Judah in the south ).

Ahab and Jezebel
1 Kings chapters 16 – 22 tells the story of Ahab and Jezebel, and indicates that Jezebel was a bad influence on 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.
Ahab allowed worship of a foreign god in the palace, building a temple for Baal, and allowing Jezebel to bring a large entourage of priests and prophets of Baal and Asherah into the country.
Elijah not only challenges Baal on behalf of his own God, Yahweh, he challenges Jezebel, her priests, Ahab, and the people of Israel.
While on his way, Elijah meets Obadiah, the head of Ahab's household, who had hidden a hundred prophets of the God of Israel when Ahab and Jezebel had been killing them.
When word comes that Naboth is dead, Jezebel tells Ahab to take possession of the vineyard.
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 ).
When Ahab hears this he repents to such a degree that God relents in punishing Ahab but will punish Jezebel and their son — Ahaziah.
Moreover, having lived with two such godless persons as Ahab and Jezebel without learning to act as they did, he seemed the most suitable person to prophesy against Esau ( Edom ), who, having been brought up by two pious persons, Isaac and Rebekah, had not learned to imitate their good deeds.
On the other hand, peace with Sidon also resulted in the penetration of Phoenician religious ideas into the kingdom and led to a kulturkampf between traditionalists ( as personified by the prophet Elijah and his followers ) and the aristocracy ( as personified by Omri's son and heir Ahab and his consort Jezebel ).
* Jezebel, biblical figure and wife of King Ahab
Roger Williams, the founder of the American colony of Rhode Island and the co-founder of the First Baptist Church in America wrote about Naboth's story in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience as an example of how God disfavored Christians from using government force in religious matters, such as the religious decrees by Jezebel and Ahab.
Athaliah is usually considered the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel ( see discussion below ); her marriage to Jehoram sealed a treaty between Israel and Judah.
The text above regards Athaliah as the daughter of Ahab and his wife Jezebel.
It is often assumed that her mother was the famous Jezebel, the only wife mentioned for Ahab in Scripture, but an argument from silence about other wives cannot be conclusive.

Ahab and daughter
" This would seem to settle the question in favor of the daughter relationship, with one precaution: the Syriac version of the 2 Chronicles 21: 6 says " sister of Ahab " instead of daughter.
This textual support for Athaliah being the sister of Ahab is usually regarded as weak enough to justify translating bath in 2 Kings 8: 26 and 2 Chronicles 22: 2 as " granddaughter ," thus bringing the various passages about Athaliah into harmony: she is presented as Omri's granddaughter and Ahab's daughter.
It would only be in 878 BC or later, then, that these two kings would be open to discussing a marriage alliance of Omri's son Ahab with Ithobaal's daughter Jezebel.
A weakness in the foregoing argument is that it assumes that Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab by his wife Jezebel.
Jehoram formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab.
Thiele attributed this change to the rapprochement between Judah and Israel, whereby Jehoshaphat, Jehoram's father, made common cause with Ahab at the battle of Ramoth-Gilead, and chose a daughter for his son from the house of Ahab ( 1 Kings 22: 1-38, 2 Kings 8: 18 ).
9th century BC ) was a princess, identified in the Hebrew Book of Kings as the daughter of Ethbaal, King of Tyre ( Phoenicia ) and the wife of Ahab, king of north Israel.
Gundry supports the popular theory that these monarchs were left out because they were all descendants of Ahab, through his daughter Athaliah.

Ahab and King
Shalmaneser III's ( 859 – 824 BC ) Kurkh Monolith names King Ahab.
As King, Ahab exacerbated these tensions.
Ceremony, Portrait and Print, 1645 – 1661 ( 2000 ), shows how people compared Cromwell to King Ahab, King David, Elijah, Gideon and Moses, as well as Brutus and Julius Caesar.
Jezreel ( city ) has been identified as the chariot base of King Ahab.
In any case, King Ahab, despite supporting the cult of this Baʿal, had a semblance of worship to Yahweh ( 1 Kings 16-22 ).
The third was the eldest son of Ahab, King of Israel
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.
# King Ahab of Israel sent 2, 000 chariots and 10, 000 soldiers ;
Twelve years before in 1535 a Franciscan friar named William Peyto ( Peto, Petow ), d. 1558 or 1559, had preached before the King at Greenwich “ that God's judgements were ready to fall upon his head and that dogs would lick his blood, as they had done to Ahab ”.
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.
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.
He claimed that the Egyptian Amarna letters from the late 18th Dynasty describe events from the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, from roughly the time of King Ahab.
There are multiple locations called Aphek in the Bible and the location of the kibbutz is believed to be adjacent to the ruins of the ancient Aphek mentioned in the Books of Kings ( 1 Kings 20: 26 ) which tells how King Ahab of Israel defeated Ben-Hadad I of Damascus and the prophet Elisha foretold that King Jehoash of Israel would defeat Ben-Hadad III of Damascus.
The leaders of this ad hoc alliance were Hadadezer ( Ben Hadad ) of Damascus and King Ahab of Israel.

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