1 Kings 21:20-29

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you. For you have sold yourself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD.

²¹ ‘Behold, I will bring misery upon you, and will take away your posterity, and will cut off every male in Israel from Ahab, him who is shut up as well as him who is left in Israel.

²² ‘And I will make your House like the House of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the House of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked and made Israel sin.’”

²³ And also, the LORD spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

²⁴ “The dogs shall eat him of Ahab’s stock who dies in the city. And him who dies in the fields shall the birds of the air eat.”

²⁵ (But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, and whom Jezebel, his wife, provoked.

²⁶ For he had acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.)

²⁷ Now, when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth upon himself, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

²⁸ And the Word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:

²⁹ “Do you see how Ahab is humbled before Me? Because he submits himself before Me, I will not bring that misery in his days. But I will bring misery upon his House in his sons’ days.”