as if it had been a light thing] Heb. was it a light thing? &c. In the Hebrew it is set down interrogatively, which implies, a more vehement deniall. Jezebel] An heathen, a notorious idolater, extremely arrogant, and cruell, as the case of Naboth, and destruction of the prophets sheweth, chap. 18. 4. and 21. 8, &c. Ehbaal] His own, and his daughter Jezebels name, being compounded of Baal, shews how much he was addicted to that idol Baal. Baal] Signifieth a lord, Hosea 2:16. In common it is put for any kinde of Idol, which men do worship as a lord. In speciall it signifieth a prime, or chief idol, a prince of idols: Beel-zebub is interpreted, prince of devils, Matthew 12:24. Sundry countries, to distinguish their idoll from others, had severall additions to Baal; as Ekron, Baal-zebub ( King 1. 2.) a flylord. The Moabites, Baal-Peor (Numbers 25:3.) Peor is a mount in Moab, where their Baal was worshipped. The Israelites Baal-berith (Judges 8:33.) a lord of covenant: an idoll to whom by covenant they bound themselves. The chief idoll of the Zidonians, was Baal, which is supposed to be Hercules, common to Tyrus, as well as Zidon, 2 Maccab. 4. 18, 19. See more of Baal, Judges 2:11. worshipped him] Baal himself, and not Jehovah in that image, as the Israelites did in the golden calves, chap. 12. 28. This phrase of Elijah (if Baal be God, chap. 18. v. 21.) proves as much.