1 Kings, Chapter 21, verses 19-29: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

1 Kings, Chapter 21, verses 19-29

¹⁹ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, “In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours.”’”	19 Sa2 12:9 Ki1 22:38 Ki2 9:26
²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he^h Lit saidanswered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD. ²¹ Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, both bond and free in Israel; ²² and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have made Israel sin. ²³ Of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in theⁱ Lit portion; some mss read rampartdistrict of Jezreel.’ ²⁴ The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat.”	20 Ki1 18:17 Ki1 21:25 Ki2 17:17 Rom 7:14 21 Ki1 14:10 Ki2 9:8 22 Ki1 15:29 Ki1 16:3 Ki1 16:11 Ki1 12:30 Ki1 13:34 Ki1 14:16 23 Ki2 9:10 Ki2 9:30-37 24 Ki1 14:11 Ki1 16:4
²⁵ Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD,^j Or whom Jezebel his wife incitedbecause Jezebel his wife incited him. ²⁶ He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel.	25 Ki1 16:30-33 Ki1 21:20 26 Ki1 15:12 Ki2 17:12 Gen 15:16 Lev 18:25-30 Ki2 21:11
²⁷ It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put^k Lit sackcloth on his fleshon sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about^l Or softlydespondently. ²⁸ Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ²⁹ “Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son’s days.”	27 Gen 37:34 Sa2 3:31 Ki2 6:30 29 Ki2 9:25-37


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