¹⁷Then the Lord spoke his word to Elijah from Tishbe: ¹⁸“Go, meet King Ahab of Israel, who lives in Samaria. He went to confiscate Naboth’s vineyard. ¹⁹Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord asks: Have you murdered someone just to confiscate ⸤a vineyard⸥?’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: At the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will lick up your blood.’ ”

²⁰Ahab asked Elijah, “So you’ve found me, my enemy?”

Elijah answered, “I found you. Because you sold yourself to do what the Lord considers evil. ²¹So I am going to bring evil on you. I will destroy your descendants. I will destroy every male^ain Ahab’s ⸤house⸥, whether slave or freeman in Israel. ²²I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam (Nebat’s son) and like the house of Baasha, son of Ahijah, because you made me furious. You led Israel to sin.”

²³Then the Lord also spoke ⸤through Elijah⸥ about Jezebel: “The dogs will eat Jezebel inside the walls of Jezreel. ²⁴If anyone from Ahab’s ⸤house⸥ dies in the city, dogs will eat him. If anyone dies in the country, birds will eat him.”

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Footnotes

a 21:21 Hebrew uses a coarse term for “male” here.