WAS AHAB EVER A GOOD KING?
It has been said, and even preached in church, that Ahab started out as a good king because of the names he gave his two sons, and later turned bad. Ahaziah means “Yahweh grasps [his hand]” (1 Kings 22:51), and Joram (Jehoram) means “Yahweh is exalted” (2 Kings 1:17; 3:1-3). On the surface, it may appear that Ahab must have been good when his sons were born, because he gave them names that exalt and praise the true God Yahweh. However, many others in the Bible who were not good people also named their children names exalting and praising Yahweh. Simply giving a child a good name does not mean the parent[s] is/are good.