“Let not the one who girds on his armor boast like the one who takes it off” ( 1 Kings 20:11 ) ...

We know he won a decisive victory over the Syrian king Ben-hadad, ... (I Kings 22:38.) Ahab was briefly succeeded by his son Ahaziah, and then by another son, Jehoram or Joram.

Ben-hadad bargains with Ahab for economic and political gain, offering to return towns to Ahab’s control and grant him the right to set up bazaars in Damascus. Ahab responds, “I will let you go on ...

Ahab then said to Ben-Hadad’s messengers: “Say to your master, the king, all that you sent to your servant in the first matter I will do, but this thing I cannot do” (1 Kings 20:9).

Is the monarch represented by the exquisitely preserved 3,000 year-old statue Ben Hadad or Hazael of Damascus, Ahab or Jehu of Israel, or Ithobaal of Tyre?

The old flour mill can still be seen while walking along the gorgeous nature trails of Tel Dan. “And Ben Haddad listened to king Asa, and he sent the captains of his armies against the cities of ...