1 Kings 21:17–29

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.” 

²⁵There was no one else like Ahab. At the urging of his wife, he sold himself to do what the Lord considered evil. ²⁶He did many disgusting things as a result of worshiping idols as the Amorites had done. (The Lord confiscated their land for Israel.) 

²⁷When Ahab heard these things, he tore his clothes ⸤in distress⸥ and dressed in sackcloth. He fasted, lay in sackcloth, and walked around depressed. 

²⁸Then the Lord spoke his word to Elijah from Tishbe: ²⁹“Do you see how Ahab is humbling himself in my presence? Because he’s humbling himself in my presence, I will not let any evil happen to his family while he is alive. I will bring evil on it during his son’s lifetime.”