Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the LORD’s sight.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 20. Thy enemy. Have I done thee any harm, whenever thou hast appeared before me? Hebrew and Septuagint “O my enemy.” Bible.—To find, often means to attack or take by surprise. Art thou come thus, to fall upon me on the road? Calmet.—Sold. That is, so addicted to evil, as if thou hadst sold thyself to the devil, to be his slave to work all kind of evil. Challoner. Worthington. Saint Gregory in Ezec. hom. 10.—The expression strongly marks the empire of the passions. Achab was sovereignly wicked, without any restraint. Calmet.—So Vitellius was: Luxui saginæque mancipatus, emptusque. Tacit. Hist. ii.—Sold, or “abandoned,” are used in the same sense. Psalms 43:13.