1 Kings 21:17–24

The Lord Condemns Ahab

^17jThen the word of the Lord came to ^kElijah the Tishbite, saying, ¹⁸“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, ^lwho lives in Samaria. There he is, in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. ¹⁹You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^m“In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

²⁰So Ahab said to Elijah, ⁿ“Have you found me, O my enemy?”

And he answered, “I have found you, because ^oyou have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord: ²¹‘Behold, ^pI will bring calamity on you. I will take away your ^qposterity, and will cut off from Ahab ^revery male in Israel, both ^sbond and free. ²²I will make your house like the house of ^tJeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of ^uBaasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and made Israel sin.’ ²³And ^vconcerning Jezebel the Lord also spoke, saying, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the ²wall of Jezreel.’ ²⁴The dogs shall eat ^wwhoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field.”