- Eliyahu prophesizes to Achav of the annihilation of him and his descendants:
- Eliyahu receives a prophecy to confront Achav with: Hashem spoke to Eliyahu the Tishbite saying, “Arise and go down toward Achav the king of Israel, who is in Shomron. Behold! he is in Navos’s vineyard where he has gone down to take possession of it. You shall confront him by saying, So said Hashem: “Haratzachta Vegam Yarashta/Have you murdered and also inherited?” You shall then say to him: In the place that the dogs have licked the blood of Navos, so shall the dogs lick your blood.”
- Eliyahu confronts Achav and relates the prophecy of his demise: [Eliyahu went down to the vineyard and met Achav] and Achav said to him: “Have you found me even here, my enemy?” Eliyahu replied to him saying, “I have found you because you have sold yourself to do what is bad in the eyes of Hashem. I will bring disaster upon you, and I will obliterate you and your descendants. I will cut off from Achav every male child. I will make your house as the house of Yeravam, the son of Nevat, and the house of Basha the son of Achiyah, because of the anger which you have angered Me, and that you have caused Israel to sin.”
- A prophecy of the demise of Izevel: Also regarding Izevel, Hashem gave Eliyahu a prophecy saying that “The dogs will eat Izevel in the valley of Yizrael. The corpses of Achav which are in the city will be eaten by the dogs, and the corpses which are in the fields will be eaten by the fowl of the sky.
- The prophecy recounts the evil of Achav: “There was none like Achav who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of Hashem, as a result of Izevel his wife who instigated him. Achav was performed many abominations and went after the idols as did the Emorites whom Hashem had expelled from before the children of Israel.”
- Achav repents his evil ways and is saved:
- When Achav heard the above words of prophecy from Eliyahu, he tore his garments and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted. He lay in the sackcloth and walked slowly and barefoot [similar to a mourner].
- A prophecy to Eliyahu to spare Achav: Hashem again spoke to Eliyahu the Tishbite saying: “Have you not seen that Achav has become submissive to me? Due to this, I will not bring the disaster of which you prophesized in his days, but rather I will bring it in the days of his son.”
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