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1 Kings 21:24-26
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1 Kings 21:24-26
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24 As for Ahab’s family, dogs will eat the ones[a] who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.” 25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed[b] to doing evil in the sight of[c] the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.[d] 26 He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols,[e] just as the Amorites[f] whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)
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- 1 Kings 21:24 tn “Dogs will eat the ones who belonging to Ahab who die in the city.”
- 1 Kings 21:25 tn Heb “who sold himself.”
- 1 Kings 21:25 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 1 Kings 21:25 tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”
- 1 Kings 21:26 tn The Hebrew word used here, גִלּוּלִים (gillulim) is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as אֱלִילִים (ʾelilim, “worthless things”) and הֲבָלִים (havalim, “vanities” or “empty winds”).
- 1 Kings 21:26 tn Heb “He acted very abominably by walking after the disgusting idols, according to all which the Amorites had done.”
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