1 Kings 21:19–29

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.”

²⁵But ^xthere was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, ^ybecause Jezebel his wife ³stirred him up. ²⁶And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all ^zthat the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

²⁷So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and ^aput sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.

²⁸And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ²⁹“See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he ^bhas humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. ^cIn the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”