1 Kings 21:25 Cross References - BBE

²⁵ {\I There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

¹ Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: ² The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love. ³ He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away. ⁴ For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

³⁰ And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him. ³¹ And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal. ³² And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria. ³³ And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

⁴ For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.}

² Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

⁷ Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.

²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

¹⁷ And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

²⁵ Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

²⁶ And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

¹ This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

³ For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent men out to take John and put him in prison, because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had taken for himself. ¹⁸ For John said to Herod, It is wrong for you to have your brother's wife. ¹⁹ And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able; ²⁰ For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly. ²¹ And the chance came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee; ²² And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you. ²³ And he took an oath, saying to her, Whatever is your desire I will give it to you, even half of my kingdom. ²⁴ And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. ²⁵ And she came in quickly to the king, and said, My desire is that you give me straight away on a plate the head of John the Baptist. ²⁶ And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her. ²⁷ And straight away the king sent out one of his armed men, and gave him an order to come back with the head: and he went and took off John's head in prison,

¹² And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin,

² But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers.

¹⁹ I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

¹⁴ For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.