Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 21:19

19 And 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, [illegible: 1+ letters]n the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine .

Thou hast murde[illegible: 1+ letters]ed an Innocent and Righteous man; and instead of repenting for it, thou hast added another piece of injustice and violence to it, and art going confidently and chearfully to reap the Fruit of thy wickedness. He ascribes Iezabel's Fact to Ahab, because Iezabel did it by his Connivence, and Consent, and Authority, and for the satisfaction of his inordinate Appetite.

Quest. How was this fulfilled, when Ahab's blood was not licked in Iezreel, which was in the Tribe of Issachar, but in the Pool of Samaria, chap. 22. 38. which was in the Tribe of Ephraim? Ans. First, This was done, though not in the same individual place, yet in the same general place, i. e. in the Territory of Samaria, within which Iezreel was; and in a place of the same nature, a publick and common place; for such was both the place of Naboth's Execution, and the Pool of Samaria. Secondly, This was particularly accomplished in his Son Ioram, as is affirmed, 2 King. 9. 25, 26. whose blood is not improperly called Ahab's blood, because Children are said to be born of their Parents blood. See Ioh. 1. 13. Act. 17. 26. Obj. These words, thy blood, even thine, shew that it is meant of Ahab's Person. Ans. True, the threatning was so directed and designed at first; but afterwards, upon his humiliation, the punishment was transferred from him to his Son, as is expressed, ver. 29. Obj. This is said to be fulfilled in Ahab's Person, chap. 22. 38. Ans. Either that may be referred to some other Prediction or Commination not elsewhere mentioned: or rather, it intimates, that it was in part, and in some sort fulfilled in him, though not so severely and opprobriously, nor with such Characters of the Curse as it was in his Son; whence he there mentions onely the thing, without any regard unto the place here designed. But it may further be observed, That although upon Ahab's humiliation the Curse here threatned might seem to be wholly translated from his Person to his Posterity; yet upon Ahab's return to sin, in the next Chapter, he brings back the Curse upon himself, and so it is no wonder if it be in some sort fulfilled in him also. Thirdly, The Hebrew word, rendred in the place where, may be, and is by some learned men otherwise rendred, either thus, Instead of this that; that being frequently said to be done in anothers place, which was onely done in his stead: or, like as: or, because that. So it doth not design the place, but the cause and reason of this Judgment. And in this sense the same word is used, Zech. 2. 10.