1 Reyes 21:20

20 Acab le respondió a Elías:—¡Mi enemigo! ¿Así que me has encontrado?—Sí —contestó Elías—, te he encontrado porque te has vendido para hacer lo que ofende al SEÑOR,

1 Reyes 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab said to Elijah, hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
&c.] So he reckoned him, because he dealt faithfully with him, and reproved him for his sins, and denounced the judgments of God upon him for them:

and he answered, I have found thee;
as a thief, a robber and plunderer, in another's vineyard; he had found out his sin in murdering Naboth, and unjustly possessing his vineyard, which was revealed to him by the Lord; and now was come as his enemy, as he called him, as being against him, his adversary, not that he hated his person, but his ways and works:

because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord;
had given up himself wholly to his lusts, was abandoned to them, and as much under the power of them as a man is that has sold himself to another to be his slave; and which he served openly, publicly in the sight of the omniscient God, and in defiance of him. Abarbinel gives another sense of the word we render "sold thyself", that he "made himself strange", as if he was ignorant, and did not know what Jezebel had done; whereas he knew fully the whole truth of the matter, and that Naboth was killed through her contrivance, and by her management purposely; and so he did evil in the sight of that God that knows all things, pretending he was ignorant when he was not, and this Elijah found out by divine revelation; so the word is used in ( Genesis 42:6 ) ( 2 Kings 12:5 2 Kings 12:7 ) , but the former sense is best, as appears from ( 1 Kings 21:25 ) .

1 Reyes 21:20 In-Context

18 «Ve a encontrarte con Acab, rey de Israel, que gobierna en Samaria. En este momento se encuentra en el viñedo de Nabot, tomando posesión del mismo.

19 Dile que así dice el SEÑOR: “¿No has asesinado a un hombre, y encima te has adueñado de su propiedad?” Luego dile que así también dice el SEÑOR: “¡En el mismo lugar donde los perros lamieron la sangre de Nabot, lamerán también tu propia sangre!”»

20 Acab le respondió a Elías:—¡Mi enemigo! ¿Así que me has encontrado?—Sí —contestó Elías—, te he encontrado porque te has vendido para hacer lo que ofende al SEÑOR,

21 quien ahora te dice: “Voy a enviarte una desgracia. Acabaré contigo, y de tus descendientes en Israel exterminaré hasta el último varón, esclavo o libre.

22 Haré con tu familia lo mismo que hice con la de Jeroboán hijo de Nabat y con la de Basá hijo de Ahías, porque has provocado mi ira y has hecho que Israel peque”.