Ahab’s Case a Warning Under the perverted rule of Ahab, Israel departed from God and corrupted their ways before Him. “And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him. And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.” {3T 262.2}

Akabs tilfælde er en advarsel
Under Akabs perverse styreform, veg Israel bort fra Gud og og deres veje blev fordærvede. »Akab, Omris søn, gjorde, hvad der var ondt i Herrens øjne, i højere grad end alle hans forgængere. Og som om det ikke var nok med, at han vandrede i Jeroboams, Nebats søns, synder, ægtede han oven i købet Jesabel, en datter af Zidoniemes konge EtBa'al og gik hen og dyrkede Ba'al og tilbad ham. Han rejste Ba'al et alter i Ba'alstemplet, som han lod bygge i Samaria. Og Akab lavede asjerastøtten og gjorde endnu flere ting, hvorved han krænkede Herren, Israels Gud, værre end de konger, der havde hersket før ham i Israel.«