2 Kings 9:8 “The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab ever…”

2 Kings 9:8

The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:

World English Bible

For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

American Standard Version

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the whole house of Ahab shalbe destroied: and I will cut off from Ahab, him that maketh water against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel.

Darby Translation

And the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, and him that is shut up and left in Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

and perished hath all the house of Ahab, and I have cut off to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in Israel,

Bible in Basic English

For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.

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Cross references

“I will cut off”

1 Kings 14:10 1 Kings 14:11 1 Kings 21:21 1 Kings 21:22

1 Kings 14:10 · BSB

Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is…

1 Kings 14:11 · BSB

Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.

1 Kings 21:21 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.

1 Kings 21:22 · BSB

I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’

“him that pisseth”

1 Samuel 25:22

1 Samuel 25:22 · BSB

May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one male belonging to Nabal survive until morning.”

“him that is shut up”

Deuteronomy 32:36 2 Kings 14:26

Deuteronomy 32:36 · BSB

For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

2 Kings 14:26 · BSB

For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,

Also

2 Kings 10:17

2 Kings 10:17 · BSB

When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.

9I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.

Read 2 Kings 9