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== Baal worship ==

== Baal worship ==

The marriage of Ahab and Jezebel was to prove instrumental in introducing the worship of [[Baal]] to the Northern Kingdom and even to the Southern. During the reign of Ahab, Jezebel systematically exterminated almost all the prophets of [[God]] then living in the Northern Kingdom--except that a palace steward hid a hundred of them in at least two locations, and two prophets, the great [[Elijah]] and his student [[Elisha]], strove against Baal worship beginning in the ninth year of Ahab to the very end of the House of Omri, through lessons, demonstrations, and occasionally direct action.

The marriage of Ahab and Jezebel was to prove instrumental in introducing the worship of [[Baal]] to the Northern Kingdom and even to the Southern. During the reign of Ahab, Jezebel systematically exterminated almost all the prophets of [[God]] then living in the Northern Kingdom—except that a palace steward hid a hundred of them in at least two locations, and two prophets, the great [[Elijah]] and his student [[Elisha]], strove against Baal worship beginning in the ninth year of Ahab to the very end of the House of Omri, through lessons, demonstrations, and occasionally direct action.

== End of the House of Omri ==

== End of the House of Omri ==

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== See Also ==

== See also ==

* [[Northern Kingdom]]

* [[Northern Kingdom]]

* [[Jezebel]]

* [[Jezebel]]