Omri lay down with his ancestors and was buried in Shomron, and Ah’ab his son began to reign in place of him. Ah’ab ben Omri began to reign over Yisra’el in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Yehudah. Ah’ab ben Omri reigned over Yisra’el in Shomron twenty-two years. Ah’ab ben Omri did what was bad in Yahweh’s eyes, more than all who were before him. Was it a slight thing, his walking in the wrongdoings of Yarob’am ben Nebat, that he took as wife Izebel bat Etba’al, king of the Tsidonites, and went and served the Master? He bowed low to him and set up an altar for the Master at the Master’s house which he built in Shomron, and Ah’ab made a totem pole. Ah’ab continued to act so as to provoke Yahweh the God of Yisra’el more than all the kings of Yisra’el who were before him.
Eliyyahu [Elijah] the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gil’ad said to Ah’ab, ‘As Yahweh lives, the God of Yisra’el before whom I have stood, if during these years there will be dew or rain except at the bidding of my word . . .’ Yahweh’s word came to him: ‘Go from here. Turn your face east and hide in Wadi Kerit, which faces the Yarden. You will drink from the wadi and I have ordered the ravens to provide for you there.’ He went and acted in accordance with Yahweh’s word. He went and stayed in Wadi Kerit, which faces the Yarden, while the ravens were bringing him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.
Goldingay, John The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
Grant, Lord,
that we may hold to you without parting,
worship you without wearying,
serve you without failing;
faithfully seek you,
happily find you,
and forever possess you,
the only God,blessed now and for ever.
Amen
St Anselm