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He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.)
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When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.
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Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:
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"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster on his house."