20 So Ahab said to Elijah, (A)“Have you found me, O my enemy?”

And he answered, “I have found you, because (B)you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord: 21 ‘Behold, (C)I will bring calamity on you. I will take away your (D)posterity, and will cut off from Ahab (E)every male in Israel, both (F)bond and free.

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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.

21 Behold, 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,

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20 “So my enemy has found me!” Ahab exclaimed to Elijah.

“Yes,” Elijah answered, “I have come to place God’s curse upon you because you have sold yourself to the devil.[a] 21 The Lord is going to bring great harm to you and sweep you away; he will not let a single one of your male descendants survive!

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 21:20 because you have sold yourself to the devil, literally, “I have found you because you have sold yourself to that which is evil in the sight of the Lord.”