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Category: Ahab

  • Distinguishing Baal-Worship from Jeroboamic Idolatry

    There are at least two additional passages (beyond those we last discussed) that provide us with further evidence of the distinction between Baal-worship and the institution of the golden calves of Jeroboam, which were intended in service to the God who brought Israel up out of Egypt. 1 Kings 22:51-53 Ahaziah the son of Ahab…

  • Ahab vs. Jeroboam | 1st Command vs. 2nd Commandment

    Not all sins are equally heinous in God’s eyes. The sin of Jeroboam was to set up a rival worship of God according to his own imagination, with his own priests, and images, namely golden calves. He set up one of those in Dan and the other in Bethel. 1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king…

  • The Reformed Reader Recommends Turretin and the Real Turretin on: Ahab’s Repentance

    I was pleased this morning to read a commendation by the Reformed Reader (Shane Lems) of Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology. (link) Mr. Lems points out that is worthwhile for those preparing sermons to go and look up the verse that they’re preaching on in the verse index of various systematic theologies, including Turretin’s. Mr.…