7. Choose a king from the North. Summarize his reign and the evaluation of it. What could have he done different in order to have a positive evaluation from God?
Ahab
According to 1 Kings 16–22
In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two year. Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him.
If Ahab wanted to have a positive evaluation from God, he should have a fearful heart before the Lord, he should do what was right in eyes of the Lord his God. He should not marry Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians. From Bible, Jezebel was more evil than her husband, 18:4 “While Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s prophets”, 21:25-26, There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife. He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel. And in Chapter 21, Jezebel used a trap to plunder Naboth’s vineyard by kill him for her husband. She also persecuted Elijah. So Ahab should not marry Jezebel, he should marry a woman who feared God as his queen.
He should fear God, obeyed God’s commandments. And although he married the evil woman, he was the king, he should not be impacted by his evil wife, he should lived a righteous life to affect his wife.
