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1 Kings 21:24

Ahab
Judgment

22 I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’

23 And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’

Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”

25 (Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.

26 He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
KJV
Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
WEB
The dogs will eat whoever dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the field.”
ASV
Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.
DARBY
Him that dieth of Ahab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat.
BLB
Whoever dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and whoever dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.”
ÅB
Den av Akabs hus som dør i byen, skal hundene fortære, og den som dør på marken, skal himmelens fugler fortære.
OTB
Hunder vil spise alle som tilhører Akab som dør i byen, og fuglene vil spise dem som dør på landsbygda."
B1930
Den av Akabs hus som dør i byen, skal hundene fortære, og den som dør på marken, skal himmelens fugler fortære.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Kings 16:4

    Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”

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  • 1 Kings 14:11

    Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.

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  • Jeremiah 15:3

    I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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  • Ezekiel 39:18–20

    You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.

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  • Isaiah 14:19

    But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

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  • Ezekiel 32:4–5

    I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.

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  • Revelation 19:18

    so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

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