1 Kings 21:20-27

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²⁰Ahab said to Elijah, “So, my enemy, you’ve found me, have you?” ^(A)

He replied, “I have found you because you devoted^(B) yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight. ²¹This is what the Lord says:^[a] ‘I am about to bring disaster on you and will eradicate your descendants:

I will wipe out all of Ahab’s males,^[b]
both slave and free,^[c] in Israel;^(C)

²²I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam^(D) son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha^(E) son of Ahijah, because you have angered me and caused Israel to sin.’^(F) ²³The Lord also speaks of Jezebel: ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the plot of land^[d] at Jezreel:^(G)

²⁴Anyone who belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, the dogs will eat,
and anyone who dies in the field, the birds^[e] will eat.’”^(H)

²⁵Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.^(I) ²⁶He committed the most detestable acts by following idols^(J) as the Amorites^(K) had, whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

²⁷When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth^(L) and walked around subdued.

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Footnotes

21:21 LXX; MT omits This is what the Lord says
21:21 Lit eliminate Ahab’s one who urinates against the wall
21:21 Or males, even the weak and impaired; Hb obscure
21:23 Some Hb mss, Syr, Tg, Vg, 2Kg 9:36; other Hb mss, LXX read the rampart
21:24 Lit birds of the sky

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