Ahab

Ahab, son of Omri, became king of Israel in Samaria and reigned twenty-two years. 1 Kings 16:30 says he 'did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.' His marriage to Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, brought open state sponsorship of Baal and Asherah worship: he built a temple of Baal in Samaria and tolerated Jezebel's massacre of the LORD's prophets (1 Kings 18:4). Against this backdrop the prophet Elijah called down a three-and-a-half-year drought, then confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18). The judicial murder of Naboth, for the sake of a vineyard Ahab coveted, drew Elijah's prophecy that dogs would lick his blood (1 Kings 21:19). Politically Ahab was capable: he led a coalition that resisted the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III at Qarqar in 853 BC (attested in Assyrian records, where Ahab contributes 2,000 chariots), and he twice defeated Ben-hadad of Aram. But in a third Aramean campaign, attempting to retake Ramoth-gilead with the help of Jehoshaphat of Judah, he was struck by a randomly-shot arrow and died in his chariot. His blood was washed out at the pool of Samaria, where dogs licked it (1 Kings 22:38) — fulfilling Elijah's word.