The jar of flour and the jug of oil were never empty. This happened just like the Lord said it would. The Lord spoke through Elijah.
1 Kings 22:38 - Easy To Read Version The men cleaned Ahab’s chariot at the pool of water in Samaria. The dogs licked King Ahab’s blood from the chariot. And the prostitutes [230] used the water to wash themselves. These things happened the way the Lord said they would happen. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they washed [his] chariot by the pool of Samaria, where the harlots bathed, and the dogs licked up his blood, as the Lord had predicted. [I Kings 21:19.] American Standard Version (1901) And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots washed themselves there); according unto the word of Jehovah which he spake. Common English Bible They cleaned the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up the king’s blood and the prostitutes bathed in it, just as the LORD had spoken. Catholic Public Domain Version And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria. And the dogs licked up his blood. And they washed the reins, in accord with the word of the Lord which he had spoken. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria: and the dogs licked up his blood. And they washed the reins, according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken. |
The jar of flour and the jug of oil were never empty. This happened just like the Lord said it would. The Lord spoke through Elijah.
Tell Ahab that I, the Lord, say to him, ‘Ahab! You killed the man Naboth. Now you are taking his land. So I tell you this! In the same place that Naboth died, you will also die. The dogs that licked Naboth’s blood will lick your blood in the same place!’”
So that is the way King Ahab died. Some men carried his body to Samaria. They buried him there.
Ahaziah died, just like the Lord said through Elijah. Ahaziah did not have a son. So Joram became the new king after Ahaziah. Joram began to rule during the second year that Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah.
The whole world, earth and sky, will be destroyed, but the words I have said will never be destroyed!