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1 Kings 21 📜 📕 ↷
10 and suborn two men the children of Belial against him, and let them bear false testimony: that he hath blessed God and the king: and bring him forth, and stone him, and so let him die.📜💬📚
11 His citizens therefore the ancients and chief men, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she sent to them:📜💬📚
12 they proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of the people.📜💬📚
13 And two men the children of the devil being brought forth, they made them sit against him: but they, as devilish men, gave testimony against him before the multitude: Naboth hath blessed God and the king: for the which thing they brought him forth without the city, and killed him with stones.📜💬📚
14 And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead.📜💬📚
15 And it came to pass, when Jezabel had heard that Naboth was stoned, and dead, she spake to Achab: Arise, and possess the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite, who would not agree unto thee, and give it taking money: for Naboth liveth not, but is dead.📜💬📚
16 Which when Achab had heard, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he arose, and went down into the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite, to possess it.📜💬📚
Elijah Denounces Ahab and Jezebel
17 The word of our Lord therefore came to Elias the Thesbite, saying:📜💬📚
18 Arise, and go down to meet Achab the king of Israel, who is in Samaria: behold he goeth down to the vineyard of Naboth, to possess it:📜💬📚
19 and thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith our Lord: Thou hast slain, moreover also thou hast possest. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith our Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.📜💬📚
20 And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thine enemy? Who said: I have found thee, for that thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of our Lord.📜💬📚
21 Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and will cut down thy posterity, and will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and the inclosed, and the last in Israel.📜💬📚
22 And I will make thy house, as the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and as the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: because thou hast done to provoke me to anger, and hast made Israel to sin.📜💬📚
23 But of Jezabel also our Lord spake, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.📜💬📚
24 If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the fowls of the air shall eat him.📜💬📚
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