1 Kings 21:17-29
"17 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession. 19 And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”
20 Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord. 21 Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 22 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 anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin. 23 And of Jezebel the Lord also said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.’24 Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”
25 (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. 26 He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
27 And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.28 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”"
Ahab's satisfaction was short-lived. God had seen what had happened, and Naboth's blood cried to Him for vindication. Elijah was once more called to stand before the guilty King, and with characteristic dramatic suddenness, and blazing with the fire of God, he charged home the terrible nature of his crime upon him at the very moment he was gloating over his acquisition. There is a real significance in Elijah's action here. There is a certain temper of mind that would advocate silent submission to such acts of injustice, in the belief that this is in line with the New Testament teaching not to resist evil, but this is to misunderstand our Lord's words. It is one thing meekly to submit to evil when it is done to you, quite another when it is done to innocent people around you. One of the God-given tasks of the Church in its prophetic ministry is fearlessly to rebuke and challenge evil things that are done in society, and expose them and call them by their proper names. It is a common error many evil men make to mistake meekness for weakness in the people of God. We in the Church must not make the same mistake and suppose that we must acquiesce in injustice and oppression. There is a time to be silent, but verily there is also a time to speak; and for Ahab, that time had come.