I. When Jezebel is courted, it's The Time for Elijah’s Rise (16:29-34)
a. Israel falls into a leadership vacuum after the death of Omri, and as tradition would have it, his son Ahab begins his rule in a dark time in Israel’s history. Jeroboam had begun Israel’s descent into the worship of Baal and Ahab would magnify this transgression by ratifying a license of worship by erecting a temple.
b. The text explains the magnitude of such a transgression when it offers the phrase, “as if it had been a light thing…”. In other words, what Ahab would procure would in its scale of wickedness far outweighed the transgressions of Jeroboam. Where Jeroboam begins Baal worship, Ahab is consumed by it. If Jeroboam’s sins were light, Ahab’s are manifold and immense in magnitude.
c. Ahab takes as his wife Jezebel (16:31)
d. How is Jezebel tied to the sin of sexual immorality?