Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.
⛓ Read 1 Kings 21 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Sold under sin' (7:14) uses the idiom of being 'sold to do evil,' as Ahab 'sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD'; the same selling-into-bondage metaphor for moral captivity.
Low confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Have you found me, O my enemy?' / hating the prophet who confronts sin parallels 15:22-24: the world hates Jesus because his coming and works expose its sin, leaving it 'no excuse.' A faint resonance with the prophetic pattern of being hated for exposing guilt.
Low confidence