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NOW Ahab the king of Israel dwelt in Samaria, and held the government
for twenty-two years; and made no alteration in the conduct of the kings
that were his predecessors, but only in such things as were of his own
invention for the worse, and in his most gross wickedness. He imitated
them in their wicked courses, and in their injurious behavior towards God,
and more especially he imitated the transgression of Jeroboam; for he worshipped
the heifers that he had made; and he contrived other absurd objects of
worship besides those heifers: he also took to wife the daughter of Ethbaal,
king of the Tyrians and Sidonians, whose name was Jezebel, of whom he learned
to worship her own gods. This woman was active and bold, and fell into
so great a degree of impurity and madness, that she built a temple to the
god of the Tyrians, Which they call Belus, and planted a grove of all sorts
of trees; she also appointed priests and false prophets to this god. The
king also himself had many such about him, and so exceeded in madness and
wickedness all [the kings] that went before him.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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