Ahab said to Elijah; upon and after his delivery of the message last mentioned, which it was needless to repeat. Hast thou found me? Dost thou pursue me from place to place? Wilt thou never let me rest? Art thou come after me hither with thy unwelcome messages? O mine enemy; that art always disturbing, threatening, and opposing me, and expressing not so much God's mind as thy own hatred and enmity against me. Compare 1 Kings 22:8. I have found thee; the hand of God hath found and overtaken thee in the very act of thy sin. Thou hast sold thyself; thou hast wilfully and wholly resigned up thyself to be the bond-slave of the devil, or Baal, and of wicked Jezebel, to do whatsoever they persuade thee to do; as a man that sells himself to another is totally in his master's power, and must employ all his time and strength for his service. Compare 2 Kings 17:7: See Poole on "Romans 7:14". In the sight, i.e. impudently and contemptuously. Withal he minds him, that although his sin was in a great measure hid from the eyes of men by Jezebel's cunning contrivance, yet it was evident and known to God, who would require it at his hands.
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1 Kings 21:20
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.