1 Re 21:20

La Riveduta Bibbia

Achab disse ad Elia: "M’hai tu trovato, nemico mio?" Elia rispose: "Sì t’ho trovato, perché ti sei venduto a far ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Achab disse ad Elia: "Mi hai dunque trovato, o mio nemico?". Elia rispose: "S, ti ho trovato, perch ti sei venduto per fare ci che male agli occhi dellEterno.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed Achab disse ad Elia: Mi hai tu trovato, nemico mio? Ed egli gli disse: Si, io ti ho trovato; perciocch� tu ti sei venduto a far ci� che dispiace al Signore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hast thou found me: 1 Kings 18:17, 1 Kings 22:8, 2 Chronicles 18:7, 2 Chronicles 18:17, Amos 5:10, Mark 12:12, Galatians 4:16, Revelation 11:10, Amos 5:10, Mark 12:12, Galatians 4:16, Revelation 11:10

thou hast sold: 1 Kings 21:25, 2 Kings 17:17, Isaiah 50:1, Isaiah 52:3, Romans 7:14

to work: 1 Kings 16:30, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Ephesians 4:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:1 - and told Judges 16:18 - brought money 1 Samuel 13:13 - Thou hast done 1 Samuel 19:17 - mine enemy 2 Samuel 12:7 - Thou art 2 Samuel 12:13 - David 2 Kings 3:2 - but not 2 Kings 3:14 - I would not look Proverbs 9:7 - General Proverbs 15:10 - grievous Proverbs 24:25 - them Proverbs 28:4 - but Proverbs 29:1 - General Proverbs 29:10 - The bloodthirsty Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Isaiah 30:10 - say Jeremiah 15:10 - a man Jeremiah 20:10 - we shall Jeremiah 38:4 - thus Ezekiel 3:8 - General Ezekiel 14:4 - I the Lord Micah 3:2 - hate Matthew 5:12 - for so Mark 6:19 - Herodias Mark 6:20 - feared Mark 11:18 - feared Mark 14:11 - and promised Luke 1:17 - power Luke 6:23 - for in John 7:7 - because Acts 5:28 - intend

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ahab said to Elijah, hast thou found me, O mine enemy?.... So he reckoned him, because he dealt faithfully with him, and reproved him for his sins, and denounced the judgments of God upon him for them:

and he answered, I have found thee; as a thief, a robber and plunderer, in another's vineyard; he had found out his sin in murdering Naboth, and unjustly possessing his vineyard, which was revealed to him by the Lord; and now was come as his enemy, as he called him, as being against him, his adversary, not that he hated his person, but his ways and works:

because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord; had given up himself wholly to his lusts, was abandoned to them, and as much under the power of them as a man is that has sold himself to another to be his slave; and which he served openly, publicly in the sight of the omniscient God, and in defiance of him. Abarbinel gives another sense of the word we render "sold thyself", that he "made himself strange", as if he was ignorant, and did not know what Jezebel had done; whereas he knew fully the whole truth of the matter, and that Naboth was killed through her contrivance, and by her management purposely; and so he did evil in the sight of that God that knows all things, pretending he was ignorant when he was not, and this Elijah found out by divine revelation; so the word is used in

Genesis 42:6, but the former sense is best, as appears from

1 Kings 21:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words “O mine enemy,” may refer partly to the old antagonism (marginal reference; 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 19:2-3); but the feeling which it expresses is rather that of present oppositions - the opposition between good and evil, light and darkness John 3:20.

Thou hast sold thyself to work evil - Compare the marginal references. The metaphor is taken from the practice of men’s selling themselves into slavery, and so giving themselves wholly up to work the will of their master. This was a widespread custom in the ancient world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 21:20. Thou hast sold thyself to work evil — See a similar form of speech, Romans 7:14. Thou hast totally abandoned thyself to the service of sin. Satan is become thy absolute master, and thou his undivided slave.