Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? - These words rebuke especially Ahab' s indecent haste. He went to Jezreel the very day after Naboth' s execution II Kings 9:26.
The prophecy following had a double fulfillment. The main fulfillment was by the casting of the dead body of Jehoram into Naboth' s plot of ground at Jezreel, where, like Naboth' s, it was left for the dogs to eat II Kings 9:25. This spot, which was just outside the city wall, and close to a gate II Kings 9:31, was probably the actual scene of Naboth' s execution. Here did dogs lick Ahab' s blood, that is, his son' s blood, the execution of the full retaliatory sentence having been deferred to the days of his son, formally and explicitly, on Ahab' s repentance I Kings 21:29. But, besides this, there was a secondary fulfillment of the prophecy, when, not at Jezreel but at Samaria (marginal reference), the actual blood of Ahab himself, was licked by dogs, only in a way that implied no disgrace. These two fulfillments are complementary to each other.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 21:19:
1 Kings 21:29
Isaiah 53:9
Ezekiel 45:9
Zechariah 1:4
Philippians 3:2
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