1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.
Note d'étude
Study Note
Elijah's confrontation with Ahab after the Naboth affair — 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' / 'I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord' — is one of the most dramatically intense prophetic encounters in the Hebrew Bible. The metaphor of Ahab 'selling himself' to evil (mitmakar la'asot hara') echoes the slave-market and applies it to moral self-degradation, anticipating Paul's lament in Romans 7:14 ('I am carnal, sold under sin'). The episode follows the Naboth vineyard narrative (21:1–16) in which Ahab's initial passive regret is exploited by Jezebel into murder — demonstrating how covenantal failure corrupts the entire household structure. The meeting in the vineyard of the murdered Naboth gives Elijah's confrontation its geographical irony and contributes to the Hebrew Bible's theology of land, justice, and prophetic accountability.
Autres traductions
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.
And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found--because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;
And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
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