Politics · 5 · Ahab and Jezebel
The kings the Bible loved to hate built Israel
It wasn't David and Solomon who first built a major kingdom in the region. It was Omri and his son Ahab, in just four decades from 884 to 841 BCE.
History's villains are sometimes its builders.
Dig deeper
Omri ended years of civil war, founded Samaria as a capital, and expanded Israel into the Galilee and across the Jordan. The Assyrians kept calling the northern kingdom the 'House of Omri' long after his dynasty fell.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 73
Reader thoughts
Loading comments…