Bible Encyclopedia: Covetousness: Ahab

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Ahab and Naboth
... the kingdom of Israel grew more miserable year by year; and now Ahab, his wicked ...
but there is many a sin of oppression, many a sin of covetousness, my friends ...
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Tenth Commandment
... Recall how the covetousness of Ahab instigated his wife Jezebel to employ sons of
Belial to bear blasphemous and fatal testimony against Naboth, saying, 'Thou ...
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Self-Destruction
... He sends His prophets to us, as He sent Micaiah to Ahab, to tell ... tempt us to please
ourselves"to pamper ourselves, our greediness, covetousness, ambition, or ...
/.../kingsley/twenty-five village sermons/sermon viii self-destruction.htm

The Tenth Commandment
... Covetousness is a breach of the sixth commandment; Thou shalt not kill.' Covetous
Ahab killed Naboth to get his vineyard.1 Kings 21: 13. ...
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Matt. xxviii. 11-14.
... this John; with this all the apostles; but with the other, Ahab, Jezebel, Gehazi ...
piercing, having nothing turbid in it, like the eye of covetousness, which is ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xc matt xxviii 11-14.htm

The Nature of Spiritual Hunger
... This sin of covetousness is the most hard to root out. Commonly, when other sins
leave men, this sin abides. ... Thus Ahab thirsted after Naboth's vineyard. ...
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False Civilization
... yet living a simple wholesome life; till in the days of Ahab and Jehu ... money, and
becoming what is now-a-days called civilized, in luxury and covetousness. ...
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John xxi. 15
... Thus, for instance, Ahab, though very impious, when he felt this, walked bending
downwards ... in vain; so too if we stay not our hand from covetousness, and check ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily lxxxviii john xxi 15.htm

The Way of Life and the Way of Death.
... Woe to him that is covetous towards his neighbour with an evil covetousness." [3393 ...
reprovest for sins; but do as Elijah and Micaiah did to Ahab, and Ebedmelech ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i on the two ways.htm

A Description of Heart-Purity
... (iv) Covetousness is the root of murder. Why did Ahab stone Naboth to death
but to possess his vineyard? (1 Kings 21:13). Covetousness ...
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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Kings 21:2-4
And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house: and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth of it in money.
Torrey's Topical Textbook