1 Kings 21:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

Hast thou found me

Thou hast sold

Romans 7:14

To work

General references

Proverbs 9:7

Ezekiel 3:8

Bible References

Hast thou found me

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you destroyer of Israel?”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man who can ask Yahweh, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

Because they knew He had said this parable against them, they were looking for a way to arrest Him, but they were afraid of the crowd. So they left Him and went away.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets brought judgment to those who live on the earth.

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

Because they knew He had said this parable against them, they were looking for a way to arrest Him, but they were afraid of the crowd. So they left Him and went away.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets brought judgment to those who live on the earth.

Thou hast sold

Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.

They made their sons and daughters pass through the fire and practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked Him.

This is what the Lord says:

Where is your mother’s divorce certificate
that I used to send her away?
Or who were My creditors that I sold you to?
Look, you were sold for your iniquities,
and your mother was put away
because of your transgressions.

For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

To work

But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight more than all who were before him.

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a great deal of evil in the Lord’s sight, provoking Him.

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

General references

The one who corrects a mocker
will bring dishonor on himself;
the one who rebukes a wicked man will get hurt.

Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.