1 Kings 21:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 21:22 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation which you have provoked, and you have caused Israel to sin.’

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    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.’
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    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.’
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and hast made Israel to sin.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and I will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and hast made Israel to sin.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And I wil make thine house like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah, for the prouocation wherewith thou hast prouoked, and made Israel to sinne.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And I will make thy house like the t house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast done, to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and given up thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked `Me', and dost cause Israel to sin.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and given up your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked [Me], and cause Israel to sin.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me to anger and have led Israel to sin.'
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation which you have provoked, and you have caused Israel to sin.’
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    I will make your house like that of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and like that of Baasha, son of Ahijah, because you have angered me and made Israel sin.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked Me, and hast made Israel to sin.

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אֲחִיָּ֑ה
ʼĂchîyâh
H281
“Ahijah”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H251 and H3050

TWOT: None

Ahiah or Ahijah = "brother of Jehovah (Yahu)" - grandson of Phinehas - scribe of Solomon - a prophet who predicted the revolt of the Northern tribes - father of Baasha, who usurped the Northern throne - grandson of Hezron (or mother of 1-4 above) - a Benjamite, son of Ehud - one of David's heroes - a Levite during David's time - a chief man under Nehemiah
  1. וְנָתַתִּ֣י nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  2. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  3. בֵּיתְךָ֗ bayith H1004 “house · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. כְּבֵית֙ bayith H1004 “like/as · house of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  5. יָרָבְעָ֣ם Yârobʻâm H3379 “Jeroboam” Noun, Proper
  6. בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. נְבָ֔ט Nᵉbâṭ H5028 “Nebat” Noun, Proper
  8. וּכְבֵ֖ית bayith H1004 “and · like/as · house of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. בַּעְשָׁ֣א Baʻshâʼ H1201 “Baasha” Noun, Proper
  10. בֶן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  11. אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
  12. הַכַּ֨עַס֙ kaʻaç H3708 “the · anger” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  13. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  14. הִכְעַ֔סְתָּ kaʻaç H3707 “to be angry” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  15. וַֽתַּחֲטִ֖א châṭâʼ H2398 “and · to sin” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  16. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  17. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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18
words
14
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֲחִיָּ֑ה Ahijah H281 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲחִיָּ֑ה Ahijah H281 occurs in 23 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 11 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 3 particles

Verb forms

  • וְנָתַתִּ֣י Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • הִכְעַ֔סְתָּ Hiphil · Perfect
  • וַֽתַּחֲטִ֖א Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בֵּיתְךָ֗ house H1004 ×3
  • בֶּן son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 42 words from the Hebrew and 39 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 18 Hebrew tokens and 27 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 21:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 16:3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
  • 1 Kings 14:16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.
  • 1 Kings 16:11 It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single man-child, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.
  • 1 Kings 12:30 This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.
  • 1 Kings 15:29–30 It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
  • 1 Kings 15:34 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
  • 1 Kings 16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 21:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְנָתַתִּ֣י אֶת בֵּיתְךָ֗ כְּבֵית֙ יָרָבְעָ֣ם בֶּן נְבָ֔ט וּכְבֵ֖ית בַּעְשָׁ֣א בֶן אֲחִיָּ֑ה אֶל הַכַּ֨עַס֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִכְעַ֔סְתָּ וַֽתַּחֲטִ֖א אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 21:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί προςἔρχομαι ὁ προφήτης πρός βασιλεύς ἰσραήλ καί εἶπον κραταιόω καί γιγνώσκω καί ὁράω τίς ποιέω ὅτι ἐπιστρέφω ὁ ἐνιαυτός υἱός αδερ βασιλεύς συρία ἀναβαίνω ἐπί σύ

And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said, Strengthen yourself, and observe, and see what you shall do; for at the return of the year the son of Ader king of Syria comes up against you.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְאֶתֵּן יַת בֵּיתָךְ כְּבֵית יָרָבְעָם בַּר נְבָט וּכְבֵית בַּעֲשָׁא בַּר אֲחִיָה עַל אַרְגָזוּתָא דְאַרְגֵיזְתָּא וְחַיַיבְתָּא יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 21:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 21:22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked [me] to anger, and made Israel to sin.

Ver. 22. Like the house of Jeroboam, and of Baasha.] By whose utter ruin thou wouldst not be warned. He who will not take example shall be made an example.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

22. and made [R.V. hast made] Israel to sin] Cf. 1Ki_16:2.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Delivered in Kg1 21:21,

that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon, his flesh, tore off his clothes, and stripped himself of all, even of his very shirt, and put sackcloth on his bare flesh, a coarse cloth made of hair, and such as sacks are made with:

and fasted, how long it is not said:

and lay in sackcloth; in the night on his bed, would have no linen on him day nor night:

and went softly: step by step, as persons mourning, grieving, and pensive, do; the Targum renders it "barefoot", and so Jarchi.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Sin. god frequently inculcates the enormity of the crime of public scandal. (Menochius)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat (cf., 1Ki_15:29) and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah , (1Ki_16:3, 1Ki_16:11) for la, used in the sense of l as elsewhere the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to, (1Ki_14:9 1Ki_16:7, etc.) and made Israel to sin.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 18 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂchîyâh (“Ahijah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Ahijah” (ʼĂchîyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 1 Samuel 14:3 shares the word «Ahijah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “house” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. The verb «וְנָתַתִּ֣י» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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