King James Version
“And 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.”
1 Kings 21:22 · KJV
And 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.
Behold, 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,
And 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.
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. wall: or, ditch
Him 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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And will make”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and like the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“and like the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and like the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger”
H3707to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant
“to sin”
H2398properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and made Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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