Sometimes he would discuss one subject for months in succession. It is reported that for six months he lectured on I Kings 21:25 ("There was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord..."). Then he dreamed that Ahab appeared to him and remonstrated with him: "How have I sinned against you and how have I offended you, that you should continually dwell on that part of the verse which refers to my wickedness and disregard the last part, which sets forth the mitigating circumstance—'whom Jezebel his wife instigated'?" Therefore, during the next six months Levi spoke as Ahab's defender, lecturing from the same verse, but omitting the middle clause.