1 Kings 16:33
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
Ahab made a grove - אשרה Asherah, Astarte, or Venus; what the Syriac calls an idol, and the Arabic, a tall tree; probably meaning, by the last, an image of Priapus, the obscene keeper of groves,…
We have here the beginning of the reign of Ahab, of whom we have more particulars recorded than of any of the kings of Israel. We have here only a general idea given us of him, as the worst of all the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
And Ahab made a grove R.V. the Ashêrah. That is, the image which was to represent the female divinity, of which Baal was the male.
to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger Here the LXX. adds -and…
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