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**Jehu the son of Hanani.** Compare [2 Chronicles 16:7-10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/16/7-10) ; [2 Chronicles 19:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/2) .

**prince:** or captain = one raised up. Hebrew. *nagid.*

**like.** Compare [1 Kings 15:29](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/29) ; [1 Kings 14:11](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/11) .

**slept, &c.** See note on [Deuteronomy 31:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/31/16) .

**drinking himself drunk.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ) for emphasis.

**not one, &c.** = not one male.
**kinsfolks** = kinsmen-redeemers.

**against.** Some codices read "unto". Others read "concerning".

**vanities** = idols. Compare [1 Kings 16:26](../../../kjv/1-kings/16/26) .

**sins.** Some codices read "sin", as in [1 Kings 16:26](../../../kjv/1-kings/16/26) . Committed not merely during the seven days' reign, but during his whole life, of course.
**make Israel to sin.** See note on [1 Kings 14:16](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/16) .

**are they not written. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis* . App-6 .

**Omri.** Note the Introversion of these names in this verse.

**thirty and first year.** He reigned twelve years (833-821), and yet in [1 Kings 16:29](../../../kjv/1-kings/16/29) Ahab began in the thirty-eighth year of Asa. Omri began to reign *de jure* when he slew Zimri, in the twentyseventh year of Asa; but only *de facto* on the death of Tibni the usurper.
**six years.** Beginning in Asa's thirty-first and ending in Asa's thirty-eighth ([1 Kings 16:29](../../../kjv/1-kings/16/29) ).

**owner** = lord.
**Samaria** . This is the origin of the city.

**made Israel to sin.** See note on [1 Kings 14:16](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/16) .

**which.** Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and all that".

**twenty and two years.** For spiritual significance, see note on [1 Kings 14:20](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/20) , and App-10 .

**above all.** The reign of Ahab opens a new era in Israel's history.

**Jezebel** , daughter of a regicide and fratricide (Josephus *c. Apion* 1, 18, *Antiquities* viii. 3, 1), priest of the Phoenician goddess Astarte.

**grove.** See note on [Exodus 34:13](../../../kjv/exodus/34/13) , and App-42 .

**build** = to fortify and complete. It had been partially restored ([Judges 3:13](../../../kjv/judges/3/13) . [2 Samuel 10:5](../../../kjv/2-samuel/10/5) ), but now became a fortified city of Israel.
**in** = at the cost of.
**which He spake** . Compare [Joshua 6:26](../../../kjv/joshua/6/26) .

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