33 Aʹhab also made the sacred pole.*+ Aʹhab did more to offend Jehovah the God of Israel than all the kings of Israel prior to him.

4 So Aʹhab came into his house, sullen and dejected over the answer that Naʹboth the Jezʹre·el·ite had given him when he said: “I will not give you the inheritance of my forefathers.” Then he lay down on his bed, kept his face turned away, and refused to eat.

20 Aʹhab said to E·liʹjah: “So you have found me, O my enemy!”+ He replied: “I have found you. ‘Because you are determined* to do what is bad in the eyes of Jehovah,+ 21 here I am bringing calamity upon you, and I will make a clean sweep after you and will annihilate from Aʹhab every male,*+ including the helpless and weak in Israel.+ 22 And I will make your house like the house of Jer·o·boʹam+ the son of Neʹbat and like the house of Baʹa·sha+ the son of A·hiʹjah, for you have provoked my anger and have caused Israel to sin.’

10 Now Aʹhab+ had 70 sons in Sa·marʹi·a. So Jeʹhu wrote letters and sent them to Sa·marʹi·a, to the princes of Jezʹre·el, the elders,+ and the guardians of Aʹhab’s children,* saying: