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19 Tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh asks: Have you murdered someone just to confiscate a vineyard?’ Then tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says: At the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will lick up your blood.’”

20 Ahab asked Elijah, “So you’ve found me, my enemy?”

Elijah answered, “I found you. Because you sold yourself to do what Yahweh considers evil. 21 So I am going to bring evil on you. I will destroy your descendants. I will destroy every male[a] in Ahab’s house, whether slave or freeman in Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 21:21 Hebrew uses a coarse term for “male” here.

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