Responding to Jezebel (rather than the Lord) Elijah flees into the wilderness and eventually arrives on Mt. Horeb where he is given a new revelation by God: that the presence of God is not always the whirlwind, but sometimes the silence.
Ahab’s disregard for the things of the Lord culminate in an abhorrent treatment of Naboth. Ahab’s many offenses all stem from the Elijah’s prophetic call to the 1st Commandment: You shall have no other god’s before me.
