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1 Kings 21:26

in 1 Kings 21

He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.)

KJV

And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

This verse in 1 Kings 21

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
And he did very abominably in following idols,.... Which were abominable to the Lord; "dunghill gods", as the Tigurine version: according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel; meaning the seven nations that formerly inhabited Canaan, but were driven out for their sins, to make way for the children of Israel, of which the Amorites were one, and here put for all the rest.

This site's exposition

who sold himself to do evil

on 1 Kings 21:25-26

The historian gives his own judgment of the reign: “Surely there was never one like Ahab”. Jezebel is named as the one who incited him. Ahab's idols are set beside “the Amorites”, of whom Genesis 15:16 said “the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete”.

This site's exposition

by going after idols

John Gill records that the Tigurine version rendered the word for idols as dunghill gods. Albert Barnes takes the Amorites as the name for all the old nations of Canaan. Barnes finds the same gods in Ahab's Phoenician worship.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He was wholly given up to sin, and, upon condition he might have the pleasures of it, he would take the wages of it, which is death, Rom. vi. Blessed Paul complained that he was sold under sin ( Rom. vii. 14 ), as a poor captive against his will; but Ahab was voluntary: he sold himself to sin; of choice, and as his own act and deed, he submitted to the dominion of sin.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Naboth's Vineyard Refused to Ahab. 1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The Amorites appear here as representatives of the old Canaanite nations (Gen 15:16 note). It seems to be implied here that their idolatries were in the main identical with those of the Phoenicians which Ahab had adopted.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּתְעֵ֣בand he acted abominably

    vaiyatevH8581 →

  • מְאֹ֔דexceedingly

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • לָלֶ֖כֶתby walking

    lalekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֣יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • הַגִּלֻּלִ֑יםthe idols

    hagilulimH1544 →

  • כְּכֹל֙according to all

    kekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָשׂ֣וּthey had done

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • הָאֱמֹרִ֔יthe Amorite[s]

    haemoriH567 →87 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙whom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הוֹרִ֣ישׁhe dispossessed

    horishH3423 →231 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֖יfrom before

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ סIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Peter 4:3

    For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 6:11

      And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

    • Ephesians 5:18

      Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

    • 1 Thessalonians 4:5

      not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

    • 1 Peter 1:14

      As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

  • Through

    Genesis 15:16

    In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

    it leads to

    • Daniel 8:23

      In the latter part of their reign, when the rebellion has reached its full measure, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.

    • Exodus 12:40

      Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

    • Matthew 23:32–35

      Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

    • 1 Thessalonians 2:16

      hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.