Ahab's Repentance

1 Kings 21

²⁵ ( _l There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. ²⁶ He acted very abominably in going after _m idols, as _n the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)

²⁷ And when Ahab heard those words, he _o tore his clothes and _p put sackcloth on his flesh and _q fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. ²⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ²⁹ "Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; _r but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house."

1. Cross References
   1 Kings 16:30 - 33
   And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 15:12
   He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
   2 Kings 17:12
   And they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, "You shall not do this.
   2 Kings 21:11
   Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 15:16
   And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Kings 6:30
   When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes - now he was passing by on the wall - and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body -
   
5. Cross References
   2 Samuel 3:31
   Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Samuel 12:16
   David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
   
7. Cross References
   2 Kings 9:25
   Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord made this pronouncement against him:
   

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