1 Kings 16:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

See 1 Kings 16:33. The great sin of Ahab - that by which he differed from all his predecessors, and exceeded them in wickedness - was his introduction of the worship of Baal, consequent upon his marriage with Jezebel, and his formal establishment of this gross and palpable idolatry as the religion of the state.

1 Kings 16:30

30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.