KJV King James Version
And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
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1 Kings 22:38
And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.
WEB World English Bible
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
ASV American Standard Version
And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots washed themselves there); according unto the word of Jehovah which he spake.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and one rinseth the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs lick his blood—when the armour they had washed—according to the word of Jehovah that He spake.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 22
35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
38 And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
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וַיִּשְׁטֹ֨ףH7857 · sha.taphto overflowאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָרֶ֜כֶבH7393 · re.khevchariotעַ֣ל׀H5921 · aluponבְּרֵכַ֣תH1295 · be.re.khah(Shelah) Poolשֹׁמְר֗וֹןH8111 · sho.me.ronSamariaוַיָּלֹ֤קּוּH3952 · la.qaqto lickהַכְּלָבִים֙H3611 · ke.levdogאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]דָּמ֔וֹH1818 · dambloodוְהַזֹּנ֖וֹתH2181 · za.nahto fornicateרָחָ֑צוּH7364 · ra.chatsto wash: washכִּדְבַ֥רH1697 · da.varwordיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichדִּבֵּֽר׃H1696 · da.varto speak: speak
Cross-references
1 Kings 21:19And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.Jeremiah 44:21-23The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it [not] into his mind?Isaiah 48:3-5I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did [them] suddenly, and they came to pass.Joshua 23:14-15And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.Isaiah 44:25-26That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;Zechariah 1:4-6Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and [from] your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
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