24. Any of your relatives who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and any who die in the open country will be eaten by vultures.”
25. (There was no one else who had devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in the Lord's sight as Ahab — all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.
26. He committed the most shameful sins by worshipping idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the people of Israel advanced.)
27. When Elijah finished speaking, Ahab tore his clothes, took them off, and put on sackcloth. He refused food, slept in the sackcloth, and went about gloomy and depressed.
28. The Lord said to the prophet Elijah,
29. “Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has done this, I will not bring disaster on him during his lifetime; it will be during his son's lifetime that I will bring disaster on Ahab's family.”