“Ahab and Jezebel – The Demonic Duo” Lesson Text: I Kings 20:1 – 22:53; II Chronicles 17:1 – 20:37:

Key Verse: I Kings 21:25:

King James Translation: “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.”

Interlinear Translation: “Surely, none has been as Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, incited whom Jezebel his wife”

Strong’s Concordance Translation: “BUT THERE WAS NONE = absolute negation, less, neither, nought, as truly as of a truth. LIKE UNTO AHAB = brother, i.e. friend of his father. WHICH DID SELL HIMSELF = to sell as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery or figuratively to surrender. TO WORK = to do or make, accomplish, advance, appoint, bring forth, perform, prepare, provide, serve. WICKEDNESS = adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, distress, grief, harm, hurt, mischief, noisome, wretchedness, wrong. IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD = an eye, outward appearance, countenance, presence. WHO JEZEBEL = chaste, query sacrifice. HIS WIFE = woman, female. STIRRED UP = to prick, i.e. stimulate, by implication seduce, entice, persuade, provoke, set on, take away.

Lesson Focus: I Kings 21:17-29:

V17: The Pronouncement.

V18: The Possession.

V19: The Preaching.

V20: The Problem.

V21: The Posterity.

V22: The Provocation.

V23: The Prediction.

V24: The Position.

V25: The Profoundness.

V26: The Putrid.

V27: The Procedure.

V28: The Preparation.

V29: The Promises..