"Under the blighting influence of Ahab's rule, Israel wandered far from the living God and corrupted their ways before Him.
The dark shadow of apostasy covered the whole land.
Images of Baalim and Ashtoreth were everywhere to be seen. Idolatrous temples and consecrated groves, wherein were worshiped the works of men's hands, were multiplied.
The air was polluted with the smoke
of the sacrifices offered to false gods.
Hill and vale resounded with the drunken cries of a heathen priesthood who sacrificed to the sun, moon, and stars."
E.G.W.