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Ahab establishes Baal’s altar and Asherah in Samaria without presenting this as Yahweh worship.
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1 Kings 16:32-33

Baal’s house and Asherah

The House of Omri and Ahab · 1 Kings 16

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32He set up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

33Ahab also made the Asherah, and Ahab went on to do more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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