In First Kings, chapter twenty-one, verse nineteen, this prophecy was fulfilled when Ahab fell in battle, and the dogs licked up the blood and washed from his chariot, as in chapter twenty-two, verses thirty-five and thirty-eight. The sons of Ahab also died violent deaths. Ahaziah received an injury and later died from a fall, as in Second Kings One, verses two and seventeen. Jehoram received execution by Jehu, and his body was cast into Naboth’s plot of ground, as in Second Kings nine, verses twenty-two through twenty-six. Ahab’s wife, Jezebel, also died a violent death.
The guilt of all that transpires is at Ahab’s door. He had neither known nor cared to know (as it seems) what Jezebel’s plans were and only thought of the end which they accomplished. He was willing to take possession to reap the advantage, as he hoped; God lays on him the first penalty. From the history of Ahab’s death, as in First Kings twenty-two, verse thirty-eight, it appears his blood was licked by the dogs, not at Jezreel, but near Samaria. Naboth’s blood dropped outside the gate of Jezreel, and the pool of Samaria, from the description in the next chapter and the conduits and reservoirs of Eastern cities, was apparently outside the gate of that city.
Ahab allowed sin to convince him, as in Romans seven, verse fourteen, as a poor captive against his will, but Ahab was willing. He sells himself to immoral activity by choice. Jezebel, his wife, stirred him up to do wickedly. Ahab reproved, and his sin was before his eyes.
The condition of humans is very miserable. Ahab made the word of God his enemy, and desperate and reckons the ministers of that word his enemies because they tell him the truth. Ahab put on the garb and guise of a penitent, yet his heart was unhumbled and unchanged. Ahab’s repentance might be outward only for the public.