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The Lord Condemns Ahab

17 aThen the word of the Lord came to bElijah the Tishbite, saying,  
18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, awho lives in Samaria. There he is, in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.  
19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: a“In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”  
20 So Ahab said to Elijah, a“Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because byou have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord:  
21 ‘Behold, aI will bring calamity on you. I will take away your bposterity, and will cut off from Ahab cevery male in Israel, both dbond and free.  
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1 Kings 21:19

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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