Holy Scripture

1 Kings 20:24

A church father on this verse
“Here the Scripture relates the two battles of the king of Israel against the Arameans, at which we have already hinted, and the twin slaughters of the Arameans, of which the second caused the death of 127,000 men, as God took his revenge on the impious voice of the Arameans, who said about the true God worshiped by th…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 20:1

Source: Septuagint

Original

24Him that is dead of Ahab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that is dead of him in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.

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In context

22And I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and as the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because of the provocations wherewith thou hast provoked me, and caused Israel to sin.

23And the Lord spoke of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall devour her within the fortification of Jezreel.

— 1 Kings 20:24 —

25But Ahab did wickedly, in that he sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his wife Jezebel led him astray.

26And he did very abominably in following after the abominations, according to all that the Amorite did, whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.

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