1 Reyes 21:20

20 —Así que, enemigo mío, ¡me has encontrado! —le dijo Acab a Elías.
—Sí —contestó Elías—, te encontré porque te has vendido para hacer lo malo a los ojos del 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 el rey Acab de Israel, que gobierna en Samaria. Estará en Jezreel, en el viñedo de Nabot, adueñándose de él.

19 Dale el siguiente mensaje: “Esto dice el Señor
: ‘¿No te bastó con matar a Nabot? ¿También tienes que robarle? Por lo que has hecho, ¡los perros lamerán tu sangre en el mismo lugar donde lamieron la sangre de Nabot!’”».

20 —Así que, enemigo mío, ¡me has encontrado! —le dijo Acab a Elías.
—Sí —contestó Elías—, te encontré porque te has vendido para hacer lo malo a los ojos del Señor
.

21 Por eso ahora el Señor
dice: “Traeré calamidad sobre ti y te consumiré. ¡Destruiré a cada uno de tus descendientes varones, tanto esclavos como libres, en todo Israel!

22 Voy a destruir a tu familia como lo hice con la familia de Jeroboam, hijo de Nabat, y con la familia de Baasa, hijo de Ahías, ¡porque me hiciste enojar mucho e hiciste pecar a Israel!”.