1 Kings 21:19–29

¹⁹And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^b“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.” ’ ”

²⁰Ahab said to Elijah, ^c“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because ^dyou have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord. ²¹Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and ^ewill cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. ²²And I will make your house like ^fthe house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like ^gthe house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you ^hhave made Israel to sin. ²³And of Jezebel the Lord also said, ⁱ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within ^jthe walls of Jezreel.’ ^24kAnyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”

Ahab’s Repentance

²⁵(^lThere was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. ²⁶He acted very abominably in going after ^midols, as ⁿthe Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)

²⁷And when Ahab heard those words, he ^otore his clothes and ^pput sackcloth on his flesh and ^qfasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. ²⁸And 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 disaster in his days; ^rbut in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”