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1 Kings 21:23 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 21 · verse 23
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.1 Kings 21:23 · King James Version
1 Kings 21:23 in context
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.
23And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
24Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
25But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
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Key words (Strong's)
- JezebelʼÎyzebelIzebel, the wife of king AhabH348 →
- JezreelYizrᵉʻêʼlJizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two IsraelitesH3157 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
- spakedâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- dogskeleba dogH3611 →
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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