Ahab

 

    Ahab's name is Hebrew is (אַחְאָב).  It means father's brother.  In the Bible, Ahab was a king.  His reign was anywhere between 874-850 BC.  He was not a good king and shows how people eventually get what they deserve if they refuse to turn to God.

    When King Omri died his son Ahab became king over Israel.  He did more evil in than any king before him.  His wife was Jezebel who led him into worship of Baal.  It started small, but turned into a national religion provoking God's anger.  God sent Elijah to Ahab to let the king the know consequences to leading God's people astray: major drought.  

    The drought lasted three years, no rain at all, when God sent Elijah to King Ahab again.  This time Elijah told the king that rain was coming.  The king blamed Elijah and all the prophets that followed God.  He started to have them killed.

    When Elijah and Ahab met it was a match.  Ahab called Elijah a troublemaker.  Elijah said that Ahab's family were the trouble makers because they refused to obey God.  It came down to a challenge to prove which god was real.  God of course won that challenge and made all Baal followers look stupid.

    It ended with Elijah praying for rain in front of King Ahab.  It was a taunt to add onto the victory.  It showed how King Ahab had no backbone.  He went home to sulk and complain to Jezebel.  Jezebel was a hot headed controller.  She took matters into her own hands and declared Elijah was to die.  Elijah had to flee at that point.

    While Elijah was off following God's direction, Ahab was going to war.  Elijah returns to Ahab with one last message: how Ahab would die.  Ahab goes into one last battle amd drags King Jehoshaphat of Judah into it.  The enemy, King of Aram, was after the two of them and no one else.  

    King Ahab had disguised himself thinking he was so cleaver, but a random arrow found him.  It was a fatal wound, but one that took time to kill him.  He was in agony all day before he bled out at sunset.  He was buried in Samaria.  His chariot was washed to remove the pool of blood and dogs drank it up by the prostitutes bath just as God had said it would happen. What God says will happen always happens eventually.

1 Kings 16:28-33, 17:1, 18:16-42, 21:14, 19:1-2, 20:1-21:29, & 22:29-40