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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] 22 I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Ba’asha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me to anger and caused Israel to sin.’

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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.