33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole.(A) Ahab did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.(B)

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33 (A)And Ahab made a [a]wooden image. Ahab (B)did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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  1. 1 Kings 16:33 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess

So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men,(A) and asked them, “Should I go against Ramoth-gilead for war or should I refrain?”

They replied, “March up, and the Lord will hand it over to the king.”(B)

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Then the king of Israel (A)gathered [a]the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to fight, or shall I refrain?”

So they said, “Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:6 The false prophets