[[1 Kings-21]] Prev: [[Prophecies in 1 Kings-20]] | Next: [[Prophecies in 1 Kings-22]] --- ### In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Elijah prophesies that King Ahab will die and dogs will lick his blood in the same location where Naboth's blood was licked. *Historical context*: This was partially fulfilled when Ahab died in battle and his chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria, where dogs licked his blood ([[1 Kings-22#v38|1 Kings 22:38]]). The literal fulfillment regarding the 'place' (Naboth's field in Jezreel) occurred when Ahab's son Joram was killed and his body cast into Naboth's plot ([[2 Kings-09#v25|2 Kings 9:25]]-26), as the judgment was deferred to the son's day due to Ahab's repentance. *Related to*: ### Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam... and like the house of Baasha. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A divine decree that Ahab's entire male bloodline will be extinguished, ending his dynasty just as the previous dynasties of Jeroboam and Baasha were destroyed. *Historical context*: The fulfillment is recorded in [[2 Kings|2 Kings 10]], where Jehu slaughters all seventy of Ahab's sons in Samaria and wipes out every remaining member of Ahab's household and his close associates, ending the Omride dynasty. *Related to*: ### The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A specific prediction regarding the gruesome death and disposal of Queen Jezebel in the city of Jezreel. *Historical context*: [[In|In 2]] [[Kin-09#v30|Kings 9:30]]-37, Jezebel is thrown from a window in Jezreel by her own eunuchs on Jehu's orders. When they later go to bury her, they find that dogs have eaten most of her body, leaving only her skull, feet, and palms, exactly as Elijah predicted. *Related to*: ### The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A prophecy that no member of Ahab's family will receive a proper burial; they will instead be consumed by scavengers. *Historical context*: This judgment describes the total dishonor of the house of Ahab. During Jehu's purge in [[2 Kings|2 Kings 9]]-10, the members of the royal family and their supporters were killed and left unburied or treated as refuse, fulfilling the 'scavenger' curse common to the ends of the wicked dynasties in Israel. *Related to*: ### 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. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Following Ahab's repentance, God promises to delay the total destruction of his dynasty until the reign of his son. *Historical context*: While Ahab himself died in battle ([[1 Kings|1 Kings 22]]), the total extermination of his 'house' (descendants) did not occur until the reign of his son Joram (Jehoram), who was killed by Jehu ([[2 Kings-09#v24|2 Kings 9:24]]), followed immediately by the slaughter of the rest of Ahab's sons ([[2 Kings|2 Kings 10]]). *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy