. The training of the Chosen people. his lovingkindness in the day-time;And in the night his song shall be with me. Ps. 42 : 7, 8. Out of the tragedy there came a song. 98 Old Testament History CHAPTER FOLLY OF MORAL COMPROMISE. 1 Ki. 16 : 29—19 : 21; ch. 21. The sentence that illuminates the situation in Israelduring the reign of Ahab, and the conflict of Ahabwith Elijah, is the summons of Elijah to all Israel atCarmel: If Jehovah be God, follow him (i :21). Ahab is an excellent example of that type of menwhose primary interest is material. Often they aresomewhat reluctant to
. The training of the Chosen people. his lovingkindness in the day-time;And in the night his song shall be with me. Ps. 42 : 7, 8. Out of the tragedy there came a song. 98 Old Testament History CHAPTER FOLLY OF MORAL COMPROMISE. 1 Ki. 16 : 29—19 : 21; ch. 21. The sentence that illuminates the situation in Israelduring the reign of Ahab, and the conflict of Ahabwith Elijah, is the summons of Elijah to all Israel atCarmel: If Jehovah be God, follow him (i :21). Ahab is an excellent example of that type of menwhose primary interest is material. Often they aresomewhat reluctant to subordinate moral and spiritualends to purely temporal advantage, but they can beconfidently reckoned upon to make the sacrifice whenthe issue is actually presented. The policy of Ahab is entirely intelligible. He real-ized that, if Israel was to hold its own against Judah,and against its powerful rivals to the north and east,it must negotiate serviceable alliances, and make thebest use of its commercial advantages. The throne of. Ruins on the Site of Old Tyre. Tyre, the capital of the Phoenician world and the centerof Phoenician culture, had been seized by Ethbaal, anex-priest of Baal. Ahab achieved a brilliant strokeof policy by marrying Jezebel, the daughter of thisusurping king. This alliance appears to have led toa commercial treaty (Amos 1:9) that gave a strong Chapter 28. The Folly of Moral Compromise. 99 impulse to the agricultural and industrial developmentof Israel, and popularized Phoenician ideas and cus-toms throughout the kingdom. But Jezebel herselfwas the principal cause of the introduction of thereligion of Phoenicia into Israel. Even Solomon hadfound it difficult to exclude from Jerusalem the variouscults of his heathen wives. But none of his wivesappears to have been of the type of Jezebel. She wasan able, determined and unscrupulous woman. Shedeliberately set herself to assimilate the worship ofIsrael to that of Tyre, and she bade fair to be com-pletely su
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