1 Kings 21:19

Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? The guilt of all that had been done is at once laid at Ahab's door. He had neither known nor cared to know (as it seems) what Jezebel's plans were and only thought of the end which they accomplished. He was willing by taking possession to reap the advantage, as he thought it; God lays on him the first penalty.

and thou shalt speak unto him, saying The LXX. omits these words. See above on 1 Kings 21:15.

In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth From the history of Ahab's death, in 1 Kings 22:38, it appears that his blood was thus licked by the dogs, not at Jezreel, but near Samaria. The best explanation of this is that the word -place" does not here mean -precise locality". Naboth's blood was shed outside the gate of Jezreel, and the pool of Samaria, from the description in the next chapter, and from what we know of the conduits and reservoirs of Eastern cities, was apparently outside the gate of that city. Thus there was a similarity between the two cases. We must also bear in mind that the sentence on Ahab was modified and its exact fulfilment deferred. When Jehoram was killed (2 Kings 9:25) a much more definite phrase is used for the place where his body was cast out. There it is, -in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite".

Instead of -dogs" simply, the LXX. (Vat.) has -the swine and the dogs" and (Alex.) -the dogs and the swine". It is not easy to decide how the swine came to be mentioned in the Greek Versions, but as neither text makes any mention of them in the second part of this clause, the words must be taken as the insertion of some one who desired to give a touch of greater horror to the picture.

The Vat. LXX. adds to the close of this verse -and the harlots shall wash in thy blood", and in 1 Kings 22:38 both Alex. and Vat. have the statement that this was done. Moreover the true rendering in that place, of the words which in A.V. read, -and they washed his armour", is -Now the harlots washed themselves there". See notes on 1 Kings 22:38.