"But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, 'Why is your spirit so sullen that you eat no food?'...But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up. " vv.5, 25
Read chapter 21
Ahab was the most wicked king of all. Out of twenty bad kings he was the worst. And behind it all was the influence of his wife, Jezebel. First we see in this chapter Ahab being a big baby and pouting because Naboth wouldn't give him his vineyard. This was coveting of Ahab and not selfishness of Naboth. God's law for the division of land was to be kept inside each tribe as far as ownership and the two were not from the same tribe. Jezebel sees her husband all sad and winey that she takes control and does so herself scheming to kill Naboth so that her husband can have the vineyard. She's definitely the dominant one in their marriage. How sad to think that if Ahab married a different woman how different of a man he could have been. Also for us woman to realize the influence we can have on our husbands both negatively and positively of the type of wife we can be to them. This is a justification for Ahab because he ultimately made the decisions himself. Women, what can you learn from being a woman like Jezebel? Men, what can you learn from being a man like Ahab?
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