Berean Standard Bible

1 Kings 21:20-29

20When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.”

He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD. 21This is what the LORD says:1

‘I will bring calamity on youand consume your descendants;I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel,both slave and free.22I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebatand like that of Baasha son of Ahijah,because you have provoked My angerand caused Israel to sin.’

23And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel:

‘The dogs will devour Jezebelby the wall of Jezreel.’2

24Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the citywill be eaten by dogs,and anyone who dies in the fieldwill be eaten by the birds of the air.”

25(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel. 26He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)

27When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.

28Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying: 29“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”

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Notes

1. 1 Kings 21:21 See LXX; the source of the quotation is clarified in verses 17 and 23; Hebrew Behold. ↩
2. 1 Kings 21:23 Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 9:36) ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel at the plot of ground at Jezreel.’ ↩

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