~ The Lord Has Elijah Forewarn Ahab ~

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite.
"Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel,
who rules in Samaria.
He is now in Naboth's vineyard,
where he has gone to take possession of it.
Say to him, 'This is what the Lord says:
Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?'
Then say to him, 'This is what the Lord says:
In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood,
dogs will lick up your blood -- yes yours!"

Ahab said to Elijah,
"So you have found me, my enemy!"

"I have found you," he answered,
"because you have sold yourself to do evil
in the eyes of the Lord.
'I am going to bring disaster on you.
I will consume your descendants
and cut off from Ahab
every last male in Israel -- slave or free.
I will make your house
like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat
and that of Baasha son of Ahijah,
because you have provoked Me to anger
and have caused Israel to sin.'

"And also concerning Jezebel, the Lord says:
'Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.'

"Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab
who die in the city,
and the birds of the air will feed on those
who die in the country."

(There was never a man like Ahab,
who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord,
urged on by Jezebel, his wife.
He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols,
like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel.)

When Ahab heard these words,
he tore his clothes,
put on sackcloth and fasted.
He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:
"Have you noticed
how Ahab has humbled himself before Me?
Because he has humbled himself,
I will not bring this disaster in his day,
but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son."

(I Kings 21:17-29)