biography
pronunciation:
[ayhab]
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| male
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| lived:
| (9th-c BC)
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| biography:
| King of Israel (c.873–c.852 BC), the son of Omri. He was a warrior king and builder on a heroic scale, extending his capital city of Samaria and refortifying Megiddo and Hazor. He married Jezebel, daughter of the king of Tyre and Sidon, who introduced the worship of the Phoenician god, Baal, in opposition to Yahweh (the God of Israelite religion), and thus aroused the hostility of the prophet Elijah. |
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