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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.| 1 Kings 21:21-29, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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