1 Kings 21:20-29

The Lord Condemns Ahab

20 Ahab said to Elijah, c "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because d you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord. 21 Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and e will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 22 And I will make your house like f the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like g the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you h have made Israel to sin. 23 And of Jezebel the Lord also said, i 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel within j the walls of Jezreel.' 24 k Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat."

Ahab's Repentance

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 18:17
    When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is it you, you troubler of Israel?
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:25
    ( There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
    2 Kings 17:17
    And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
    Romans 7:14
    For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
  3. Cross References
    2 Kings 9:8
    For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
    1 Kings 14:10
    Therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:29
    And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:3
    Behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
    1 Kings 16:11
    When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.
  6. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:16
    And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.
  7. Cross References
    2 Kings 9:36
    When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, 'In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.
  8. Cross References
    2 Samuel 20:15
    And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah. They cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall to throw it down.
  9. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:11
    Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the Lord has spoken it."
    1 Kings 16:4
    Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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 -
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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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