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1 This is what happened next. Naboth from Jezreel had a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. 2 Ahab told Naboth, |Give me your vineyard. It will become my vegetable garden because it is near my house. I will give you a better vineyard for it. Or if you prefer, I will pay you a fair price for it.| 3 Naboth told Ahab, |The LORD has forbidden me to give you what I inherited from my ancestors.| 4 Resentful and upset, Ahab went home because of what Naboth from Jezreel had told him. ( [Naboth had said,] |I will not give you what I inherited from my ancestors.|) So Ahab lay on the couch, turned his face [from everyone], and refused to eat. 5 His wife Jezebel came to him and asked, |Why are you so resentful of everything? Why don't you eat?| 6 He told her, |I talked to Naboth from Jezreel. I said to him, 'Sell me your vineyard. Or, if you like, I'll give you another vineyard for it.' But he said, 'I won't give you my vineyard.'| 7 His wife Jezebel said to him, |Aren't you king of Israel? Get up, eat, and cheer up. I'll give you the vineyard belonging to Naboth from Jezreel.| 1 Kings 21:1-7, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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