 | Richard Gilpin - 1867 - 550 pages
...are visibly in his service. These answer the character which was given of Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. 20, ' who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord.' The first expression shews that such are wholly in Satan's power and disposal— as thinga sold are... | |
 | Richard Gilpin - 1867 - 560 pages
...are visibly in his service. These answer the character which was given of Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. 20, ' who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord.' The first expression shews that such are wholly in Satan's, power and disposal — as things sold are... | |
 | William Kelly - 1868 - 160 pages
...so of old there was an Obadiah, who feared the Lord greatly, over the house of Ahab " which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." It was then too was found the remnant of 7000, who had not bowed the knee to Baal. I think the Lord... | |
 | Hugh Taylor Howat - 1868 - 328 pages
...II et seq. * 2 Kings x. 1. s 2 Kings x. 17. this : ' There was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up ;' and should the thought arise that the punishment was disproportioned to the crime, or not in keeping... | |
 | Sarah Towne Martyn - 1868 - 364 pages
...longer wonder at the declaration of the inspired record : "There was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." The guilty queen lived many years after the murder of Naboth, and at the death of Ahab saw Jehoram... | |
 | Ebenezer Davies - 1868 - 234 pages
...was the father of Ahab, a son worthy of such a sire. " There was none like unto Ahab, who did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel, his wife" (daughter of an idolatrous Sidonian king) " stirred up." He built in Samaria an ivory palace of great... | |
 | Matilda Horsburgh, M. H. - 1869 - 306 pages
...than all the kings of Israel that were before him. But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." As a punishment for the wickedness of this king and his people, the Lord sent a famine upon the land,... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1888 - 378 pages
...explanation. What is it? We find it in verse 25: — " But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." That explains the whole mystery. The man had sold himself to the devil. And men are doing that self-same... | |
 | John Fleming Carson - 1895 - 100 pages
...complete." CHAPTER III. MARITAL RELATIONS PERVERTED. "But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell' himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord,, whom Jezebel, his wife, incited."—I KINGS 21 : 25. TF there ever was a case of crowned imbecility it was that of Ahab, the... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1895 - 136 pages
...Canaanitish worship. "There was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the Lord... | |
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But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 
