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Ach'av said to Eliyah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ach'av every man-child, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Yisra'el:
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and I will make your house like the house of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, and like the house of Ba`sha the son of Achiyah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Yisra'el to sin.
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Of Izevel also spoke the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Izevel by the rampart of Yizre`el.
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Him who dies of Ach'av in the city the dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.
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(But there was none like Ach'av, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, whom Izevel his wife stirred up.
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He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amori did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Yisra'el.)
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It happened, when Ach'av heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
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The word of the LORD came to Eliyah the Tishbi, saying,
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See you how Ach'av humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.