1 Kings 21:12
◄  1 Kings 21:12  ►
New International Version (©2011)
They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They called for a fast and put Naboth at a prominent place before the people.

English Standard Version (©2001)
they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They proclaimed a public fast and seated Naboth in the front row.

NET Bible (©2006)
They observed a time of fasting and put Naboth in front of the people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They announced a fast and had Naboth seated as the leader of the people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

American King James Version
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

American Standard Version
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of the people.

Darby Bible Translation
they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.

English Revised Version
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Webster's Bible Translation
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

World English Bible
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Young's Literal Translation
they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:5-16 When, instead of a help meet, a man has an agent for Satan, in the form of an artful, unprincipled, yet beloved wife, fatal effects may be expected. Never were more wicked orders given by any prince, than those Jezebel sent to the rulers of Jezreel. Naboth must be murdered under colour of religion. There is no wickedness so vile, so horrid, but religion has sometimes been made a cover for it. Also, it must be done under colour of justice, and with the formalities of legal process. Let us, from this sad story, be amazed at the wickedness of the wicked, and the power of Satan in the children of disobedience. Let us commit the keeping of our lives and comforts to God, for innocence will not always be our security; and let us rejoice in the knowledge that all will be set to rights in the great day.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They proclaimed a fast,.... Or called a court; see Gill on 1 Kings 21:9.

and set Naboth on high among the people; placed him at the bar as a criminal; see Gill on 1 Kings 21:9, though Josephus (c) thinks he was set on an high place in the court, because he was of an illustrious birth.

(c) Antiqu. l. 3. c. 13. sect. 8.

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Jezebel's Plot
11And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. 12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. …

1 Kings 21:11 So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them.
Isaiah 58:4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.