²⁶ Also, he acted very abominably by going after idols like all the Amorites had done whom Yahweh had driven out from before the Israelites.”^[a]

²⁷ When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly. ²⁸ Then the word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,