Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

The rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made. Ivory came into great use among the Hebrews in the reign of Solomon (1 Kings 10:18; 1 Kings 10:22), through the Indian commerce he commenced. The Assyrians had long before applied it extensively in the decoration of their houses ('Nineveh and its Remains,' 2:, p. 420), and borrowing this style from the past became a favourite fashion among the later Hebrews, to use it in ornamenting their furniture, and even in the construction of palaces (Psalms 45:8; Amos 3:15; Amos 6:4: cf. Homer, 'Odyssey,' 4:, 72; Lucan, 'Pharsalia,' 10:, 119; Horace, b. 2:, ode 18:, 1). Ahab was succeeded by his son Ahaziah.

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