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Ahab’s Moral Weakness

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 27.

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Ahab’s Moral Weakness

"And Ahab . . . did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him." The same words are used of his father in verse 25. It is not difficult to see in what way Ahab's rule was worse even than Omri's. The latter had gone beyond his predecessors in the matter of calf-worship. In the long catalogue of royal transgressors, the name of Ahab stands unenviably pre-eminent. "There was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord." Moral weakness was his undoing.