1 Kings 16 · Verse 33

1 Kings 16:33

And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
1 Kings 16:33, King James Version

1 Kings 16:33 in other translations

BSBThen he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
WEBAhab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
ASVAnd Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
YLTand Ahab maketh the shrine, and Ahab addeth to do so as to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, above all the kings of Israel who have been before him.
DARBYAnd Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more to provoke Jehovah the God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
BBEAnd Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.
WebsterAnd Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

What does 1 Kings 16:33 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 16:29-33

29-33. Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him--The worship of God by symbols had hitherto been the offensive form of apostasy in Israel, but now gross idolatry is openly patronized by the court. This was done through the influence of Jezebel, Ahab's queen. She was "the daughter of Eth-baal, king of the Zidonians." He was priest of Ashtaroth or Astarte, who, having…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 33 Ahab made a grove - אשרה Asherah, Astarte, or Venus; what the Syriac calls an idol, and the Arabic, a tall tree; probably meaning, by the last, an image of Priapus, the obscene keeper of groves, orchards, and gardens.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 16:29-34

Ahab did evil above all that reigned before him, and did it with a particular enmity both against Jehovah and Israel. He was not satisfied with breaking the second commandment by image-worship, he broke the first by worshipping other gods: making light of lesser sins makes way for greater. Marriages with daring offenders also imbolden in wickedness, and hurry men on to the greatest excesses. One of Ahab's subjects…

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1 Kings 16:33 in the original Hebrew

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וַיַּ֥עַשׂvai.Ya.'asand he madeH6213
אַחְאָ֖ב'ach.'AvAhabH256
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הha.'a.she.Rah<the> Asherah poleH842
וַיּ֨וֹסֶףvai.Yo.sefand he increasedH3254
אַחְאָ֜ב'ach.'AvAhabH256
לַעֲשׂ֗וֹתla.'a.Sotto doH6213
לְהַכְעִיס֙le.hakh.'Isto provoke to angerH3707
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יְהֹוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵ֣י'e.lo.Hei[the] God ofH430
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
מִכֹּ֨לmi.Kolmore than allH3605
מַלְכֵ֣יmal.Khei[the] kings ofH4428
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhoH834
הָי֖וּha.Yuthey wereH1961
לְפָנָֽיו\׃le.fa.Nav<to> before himH6440

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Cross references for 1 Kings 16:33

  • 2 Kings 13:6

    Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)

  • 1 Kings 21:25

    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.

  • 2 Kings 21:3

    For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • Exodus 34:13

    But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

  • 2 Kings 17:16

    And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

  • 1 Kings 21:19

    And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

  • Jeremiah 17:1-2

    The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 1 Kings 22:6

    Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth–gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

  • 1 Kings 22:8

    And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

  • 1 Kings 16:29-30

    And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

  • 1 Kings 14:9

    But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
made a grove.
Ex 34:13; 2Ki 13:6; 17:16; 21:3; Jer 17:1,2
did more to provoke.
30; 21:19,25; 22:6,8

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Context

  • 1 Kings 16:32

    And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

  • 1 Kings 16:33

    And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

  • 1 Kings 16:34

    In his days did Hiel the Beth–elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

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1 Kings 16:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Hizo también Achâb un bosque; y añadió Achâb haciendo provocar á ira á Jehová Dios de Israel, más que todos los reyes de Israel que antes de él habían sido.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Achab fit une ashère; et Achab fit plus que tous les rois d’Israël qui avaient été avant lui, pour provoquer à colère l’ Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël.
German
Elberfelder 1871
auch machte Ahab die Aschera. Und Ahab tat mehr, um Jehova, den Gott Israels, zu reizen, als alle Könige von Israel, die vor ihm gewesen waren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et plantavit lucum: et addidit Achab in opere suo, irritans Dominum Deum Israël super omnes reges Israël qui fuerunt ante eum.