Ahab's Repentance
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But x there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD, y because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.
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And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all z that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and a put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.
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And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
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"See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he b has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. c In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house."
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Cross References
1 Kings 16:30 - 33
Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
1 Kings 21:20
So Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" And he answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD:
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Cross References
1 Kings 16:31
And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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Cross References
Genesis 15:16
"But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
Leviticus 18:25 - 30
For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ( he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols).
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Cross References
Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
2 Samuel 3:31
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn for Abner." And King David followed the coffin.
2 Kings 6:30
Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath he had sackcloth on his body.
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Cross References
2 Kings 22:19
Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you, " says the LORD.
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Cross References
2 Kings 9:25
Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him into the tract of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I were riding together behind Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this burden upon him:
2 Kings 10:11
So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his close acquaintances and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
2 Kings 10:17
And when he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah.
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