📖WEB · 1 Kings 21:29
What does 1 Kings 21:29 mean?
"“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”"
— 1 Kings 21:29 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
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