1 Kings 21:18-29 ▼

18 |Go, meet King Ahab of Israel, who lives in Samaria. He went to confiscate Naboth's vineyard.

19 Tell 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.'|

20 Ahab 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.

21 So I am going to bring evil on you. I will destroy your descendants. I will destroy every male in Ahab's [house], whether slave or freeman in Israel.

22 I 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.|

23 Then the LORD also spoke [through Elijah] about Jezebel: |The dogs will eat Jezebel inside the walls of Jezreel.

24 If anyone from Ahab's [house] dies in the city, dogs will eat him. If anyone dies in the country, birds will eat him.|

25 There was no one else like Ahab. At the urging of his wife, he sold himself to do what the LORD considered evil.

26 He did many disgusting things as a result of worshiping idols as the Amorites had done. (The LORD confiscated their land for Israel.)

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

28 Then 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.|