Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Ver. 39. And the ivory house which he had made.] For pomp and pleasure: as the emperors of Constantinople had a room made of porphyry, wherein their empresses were delivered, and their children were there hence called Porphyrogeniti.