³⁰ And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, ^(A)your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” ³¹ But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. ^(B)He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.

²⁷ And when Ahab heard those words, he ^(A)tore his clothes and ^(B)put sackcloth on his flesh and ^(C)fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.

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; ^(A)but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”