The Lord Condemns Ahab

^17 (A)Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ¹⁸ “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in ^(B)Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession. ¹⁹ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^(C)“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”

²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah, ^(D)“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because ^(E)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 ^(F)will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. ²² And I will make your house like ^(G)the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like ^(H)the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you ^(I)have made Israel to sin. ²³ And of Jezebel the Lord also said, ^(J)‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within ^(K)the walls of Jezreel.’ ^24 (L)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.”