Personalities · 5 · Ahab and Jezebel

Ahab: the Bible's caricature

Kings portrays Ahab as a sulking wimp who needs his wife to get things done, a coward who dies in disguise, and a persecutor of prophets.

Unflattering portraits are clues.

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Even when granting him a victory, Kings says he botched it. Historically, he was Israel's most important monarch.

Bible reference: 1 Kings 16–22

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 72–73

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