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Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah, the Tishbite, saying,
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Arise, go down to meet Ahab, king of Israel, who
is in Samaria; behold,
he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone down to possess it.
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And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, Hast thou murdered and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him again, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs also lick thy blood, even thine.
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And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found
thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Behold, I will bring evil upon thee and will burn away thy posterity and will cut off from Ahab him that pisses against the wall and he that is kept and he that is left in Israel.
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And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked
me to anger and made Israel to sin.
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And of Jezebel, the LORD has also spoken, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
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Him that dies of Ahab in the city, the dogs shall eat, and him that dies in the field, shall the fowls of the air eat.
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(Truly there was none like unto Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife incited him.
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He was very abominable, following idols, according to all the
things that the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel.)
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And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and slept in sackcloth and went softly.