Not less than Elijah did the wretched priests of Baal serve those slow, sure, eternal Purposes, which include an ahab and all the futile fury of his little life as the sun includes its "spots."
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
No literature gives us such types of men who rebuke unjust kings as we find in the stories of Nathan and David, Elijah and ahab, Jeremiah and Hezekiah.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
That the Ammonites also were subject to ahab seems a just conclusion from the inscriptions of Shalmanesar, king of Assyria.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
