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The historical books of the Old Testament recount the fortunes of the people of Israel beginning with the conquest of the Promised Land. Joshua through Kings bring the story up to the point where the independent kingdom of Judah is destroyed by foreign invaders and much of the population deported to Babylon. This is a book about history, but what it deals with particularly is salvation history;...

for his transgression (vv. 21–22). Jezebel, being a foreigner and evil in the extreme, dies a horrible death (in 2 Kings 9:30–37). 21:25–29. Despite his reprehensible conduct (summed up here in an aside: vv. 25–26), Ahab gives evidence of his repentance and is rewarded for it: his son will be allowed to succeed him (v. 29). The figure of Ahab, a sad and humbled king, contrasts with that of Naboth, only a vassal, yet a happy man. That is how St Ambrose of Milan sees them in his book commenting on
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