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1 Kings 21:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Go and tell him that I say, ‘Ahab, you murdered Naboth and took his property. And so, in the very spot where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, they will lick up your blood.’ ” When Elijah found him,

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“How did you know you were naked?” God asked. “Did you eat any fruit from that tree in the middle of the garden?”

Someone from your own family will cause you a lot of trouble, and I will take your wives and give them to another man before your very eyes. He will go to bed with them while everyone looks on.

Why did you disobey me and do such a horrible thing? You murdered Uriah the Hittite by letting the Ammonites kill him, so you could take his wife.

Some workers washed his chariot near a spring in Samaria, and prostitutes washed themselves in his blood. Dogs licked Ahab's blood off the ground, just as the LORD had warned.

Listen to me. Everything the LORD's servant Elijah promised about Ahab's family will come true.”

And when these people read Jehu's second letter, they called together all seventy of Ahab's descendants. They killed them, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jezreel.

Then he sent a messenger to Elisha. Elisha was at home at the time, and the important leaders of Israel were meeting with him. Even before the king's messenger arrived, Elisha told the leaders, “That murderer is sending someone to cut off my head. When you see him coming, shut the door and don't let him in. I'm sure the king himself will be just behind him.”

Straight away, Haman was hanged on the tower he had built to hang Mordecai, and the king calmed down.

Nor have I cheated my workers and caused them pain.

Then we could stamp on their blood, and our dogs could chew on their bones.

Please have mercy, LORD! My enemies ill-treat me. Keep me from the gates that lead to death,

You showed what you are like, and you made certain that justice is done, but evil people are trapped by their own evil deeds.

I went to Zedekiah and told him what the LORD had said.

The ruler must never abuse my people by taking land from them. Any land he gives his children must already belong to him.

You're doomed! You built a city on crime and violence.

You're doomed! You made your family rich at the expense of others. You even said to yourself, “I'm above the law.”

God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.

and he said, “I've cut off the thumbs and big toes of seventy kings and made those kings crawl around under my table for scraps of food. Now God is paying me back.” The army of Judah took the king of Bezek along with them to Jerusalem, where he died.




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