Study it in the app“Ahab also made the Asherah; and Ahab did still more to provoke to anger YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, than all the kings of Israel who were before him.”
Ahabאַחְאָבalso madeוַיַּעַשׂthe Asherah;הָאֲשֵׁרָהand Ahabוַ אַחְאָבdid still moreיּוֹסֶף לַעֲשׂוֹתto provoke to angerלְהַכְעִיסYHWH,יְהֹוָהthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof Israel,יִשְׂרָאֵלthan allמִכֹּלthe kingsמַלְכֵיof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלwhoאֲשֶׁרwereהָיוּbefore him.לְפָנָיו
Ahab
Ahab: a name meaning "father's brother." It is the king of Israel, son of Omri, who married Jezebel and served Baal (1 Kings 16:29–22:40); a false prophet in Babylon also bears the name (Jeremiah 29:21).
Where else “achav” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “yaas” appearsAsherah
Asherah: a Canaanite goddess, and the pole or sacred tree that stood for her beside the altars.
Where else “ashera” appearsdo again
To do again what had already been done.
Where else “yosef” appearsprovoke
To stir up someone's anger by what one does, like worshiping idols before YHWH.
Where else “hachis” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehova” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “malche” appearsexist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “hayu” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fanay” appears32He set up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal that he built in Samaria.
33 · This verse (above)
34In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Joshua son of Nun.
