The first of Omri’s descendants is Ahab (16:29–34), whose initial claim to fame is that he exceeds in evil all who precede him—quite an accomplishment, given Jeroboam’s range of heterodoxies. The narrative cannot resist a piece of sarcasm: as though it were trivial to commit such atrocities, A…
Baker Publishing Group, The Baker Illustrated Bible Commentary, by Gary M. Burge