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Ahab and Elijah

How Ahab and Elijah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.

How they are linked

  • Elijah confronted Ahab.

    Elijah announced a drought to Ahab and later accused him of following Baalim. After Naboth was killed, Elijah met Ahab in the vineyard, and Ahab greeted him as "O mine enemy".

    there shall not be dew nor rain these years

    1 Kings 17:1, King James Version

    thou hast followed Baalim

    1 Kings 18:18, King James Version

    Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?

    1 Kings 21:20, King James Version

    Where they cross: 1 Kings 21:17-24

Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.

Every passage, in order

1 Kings 17:1

1And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

1 Kings 18:18

18And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

1 Kings 21:17-24

17And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

18Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.

19And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

20And 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.

21Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

22And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

23And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

24Him 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.

King James Version

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