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1 Kings 21

1 Kings 21:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Butk there was none like unto Ahab
'Ach'ab (Hebrew #256)
from {SI 10251}251{/SI} and 1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon
KJV usage: Ahab.
Pronounce: akh-awb'
Origin: once (by contraction) oEchab (Jer. 29:22) {ekh- awb'}
, which did sell
makar (Hebrew #4376)
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
KJV usage: X at all, sell (away, -er, self).
Pronounce: maw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
himself to work
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
wickedness
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
in the sight
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, whom Jezebel
'Iyzebel (Hebrew #348)
Izebel, the wife of king Ahab
KJV usage: Jezebel.
Pronounce: ee-zeh'-bel
Origin: from 336 and 2083
his wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
κstirred up
cuwth (Hebrew #5496)
properly, to prick, i.e. (figuratively) stimulate; by implication, to seduce
KJV usage: entice, move, persuade, provoke, remove, set on, stir up, take away.
Pronounce: sooth
Origin: perhaps denominative from 7898
m.

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But there.
sell himself.
whom Jezebel.
1 Kings 21:7• 7{i}And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now exercise sovereignty over Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be glad: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite.{/i} (1 Kings 21:7)
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1 Kings 11:1‑4• 1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
2{i}of the nations of which Jehovah had said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you; they would certainly turn away your heart after their gods: to these Solomon was attached in love.{/i}
3{i}And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart{/i}.
4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
(1 Kings 11:1‑4)
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1 Kings 16:31• 31{i}And it came to pass, as if it was a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshipped him.{/i} (1 Kings 16:31)
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1 Kings 18:4• 4and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water); (1 Kings 18:4)
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1 Kings 19:2• 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. (1 Kings 19:2)
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Prov. 22:14• 14The mouth of strange women [is] a deep ditch;{HR}He with whom Jehovah is indignant shall fall therein. (Prov. 22:14)
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Eccl. 7:26• 26And I find a thing more bitter than death,{HR}Even the woman whose heart [is] snares and nets,{HR}Whose hands [are] bands:{HR}Whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her;{HR}But the sinner shall be taken by her. (Eccl. 7:26)
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Mark 6:17‑27• 17{i}For the same Herod had sent and seized John, and had bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.{/i}
18{i}For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.{/i}
19{i}But Herodias kept it [in her mind] against him, and wished to kill him, and could not:{/i}
20{i}for Herod feared John knowing that he was a just and holy man, and kept him safe;{/i} and having heard him, did much, and listened gladly.
21{i}And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief [men] of Galilee;{/i}
22{i}and{/i} the daughter of the same Herodias {i}having come in, and danced, pleased Herod and those that were with [him] at table; and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee.{/i}
23{i}And he swore to her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask me I will give thee, to half of my kingdom.{/i}
24{i}And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.{/i}
25{i}And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the head of John the Baptist.{/i}
26{i}And the king, [while] made very sorry, on account of the oaths and those lying at table with [him] would not break his word with her.{/i}
27{i}And immediately the king, having sent one of the guard, ordered his head to be brought. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison,{/i}
(Mark 6:17‑27)
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Acts 6:12• 12And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes; and coming upon [him] they seized and brought him into the council, (Acts 6:12)
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Acts 14:2• 2But the Jews that disobeyed stirred up the souls of the Gentiles and aggravated [them] against the brethren. (Acts 14:2)
stirred up.
or, incited.

J. N. Darby Translation

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(Surely there was none like to Ahab, who did sell himself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, Jezebel his wife urging him on.

W. Kelly Translation

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(Surely there was none like to Ahab, who did sell himself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, Jezebel his wife urging him on.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)