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19 You are to tell him: This is what the Lord says. Have you committed murder and seized this man’s property?

Then you will say to him: This is what the Lord says. In the place where dogs licked Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick your blood also.

20 Then Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?”

Elijah said, “I have found you, because you sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, who says, 21 ‘I am bringing disaster against you, and I will burn you up. I will cut off from Ahab in Israel all those who urinate against the wall,[a] both bound and free.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 21:21 This seems to be a crude term used only when making threats of a violent death.
  2. 1 Kings 21:21 It is uncertain to which specific groups of people these terms refer.