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1 Kings 21:20 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 21 · verse 20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.1 Kings 21:20 · King James Version
1 Kings 21:20 in context
18Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
19And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
20And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
21Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
22And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ElijahʼÊlîyâhElijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other IsraelitesH452 →
- foundmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
- enemyʼôyêbhatingH341 →
- sightʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- AhabʼAchʼâbAchab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at BabylonH256 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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In these verses we may observe, I. The very bad character that is given of Ahab (Kg1 21:25, Kg1 21:26), which comes in here to justify God in the heavy sentence passed upon him, and to show that though it was passed upon occasion of his sin in the matter of Naboth (which David's sin in the matter of Uriah did too much…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-29