We continue today to hear from the First Book of the Kings about the cruelty and evil done by King Ahab and his wife Jezebel. One notes that Ahab’s sin, coveting the property of another— “You shall not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his”—leads his wife to do murder, so that they may steal Naboth’s vineyard. Things do not end well for Ahab and Jezebel—and many suffer because the king and his wife worshiped Baal and did not obey the commandments of God.
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