31 It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that (A)he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the (B)Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him. 32 So he erected an altar for Baal in (C)the house of Baal which he built in Samaria. 33 Ahab also made (D)the [a]Asherah. Thus (E)Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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  1. 1 Kings 16:33 I.e. wooden symbol of a female deity

26 (A)He acted very abominably in following idols, (B)according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the sons of Israel.

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