OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 21:24

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The dogs will eat whoever dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the field.”

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Verse 24. Eat him. Yet God remitted something from the severity of this sentence; and Achab was buried in Samaria. Calmet. 22:37. But his son was deprived of burial. Tirinus. 4 Kennicott. 9:26.—According to the Hebrew, the prediction related to Achab’s posterity, as the Chal. Septuagint Syr. and so forth have understood it. Calmet.—Prot. “him that dieth of Achab in the city,” and so forth

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