1 Kings 20:43

Heavy and displeased. Ahab refused to acknowledge the justice of his sentence. He became angry and sullen, and showed no trace of true repentance or godly sorrow.

But he had pronounced this sentence against himself, and with a finality that offered no appeal. Ahab, in his anger, no doubt would have preferred to seize the prophet for this outspoken rebuke, but this he could not well do, in view of the fact that he himself had given the judgment. He returned home far from happy, displeased with the prophet rather than himself, finding fault with the ways of God rather than with his own mistakes. The unregenerate human heart ever seeks to justify its mistakes; a man’s ways are generally right in his own eyes.