1 Kings 21
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And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

Give me The request of Ahab, at first view, appears fair and honourable. But, as he most evidentially wished Naboth to {alienate it finally}, which was expressly forbidden and provided against in the law of God, (

Leviticus 25:14-28 And if you sell ought to your neighbor, or buy ought of your neighbor's …

Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that …

Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your …

Deuteronomy 5:21 Neither shall you desire your neighbor's wife, neither shall you …

1 Samuel 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive …

Jeremiah 22:17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and …

Habakkuk 2:9-11 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …

Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness…

1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …

James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…

a garden of herbs

2 Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of …

Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of …

Ecclesiastes 2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all …

Songs 4:15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

seems good to thee [heb] be good in thine eyes

Genesis 16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to …

1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to …

1 Samuel 29:6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, Surely, as the LORD lives, …

And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
And 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.

the men of Belial

Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 5:20 Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 19:16-21 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him …

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses …

Psalm 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Proverbs 6:19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 19:5,9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies …

Proverbs 25:18 A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and …

Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …

Mark 14:56-59 For many bore false witness against him, but their witness agreed …

blaspheme God

Job 1:5,11 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that …

Job 2:9 Then said his wife to him, Do you still retain your integrity? curse …

Matthew 9:3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemes.

Acts 6:11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous …

the king

Ecclesiastes 10:20 Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich …

Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it …

Amos 7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying…

Luke 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting …

John 19:12 And from thereafter Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried …

Acts 24:5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition …

they carried him

Leviticus 24:11-16 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord, …

Numbers 15:35,36 And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: …

Deuteronomy 13:10 And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has …

Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he …

Deuteronomy 22:21,24 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's …

Joshua 7:24,25 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, …

2 Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of …

Ecclesiastes 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …

Acts 7:57-59 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and …

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

Hast thou found me

1 Kings 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, …

1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, …

2 Chronicles 18:7,17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, …

Amos 5:10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks …

Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they …

Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell on the earth shall rejoice over them, and make …

Amos 5:10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks …

Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they …

Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell on the earth shall rejoice over them, and make …

thou hast sold

1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness …

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the …

Isaiah 50:1 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …

Isaiah 52:3 For thus said the LORD, You have sold yourselves for nothing; and …

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

to work

1 Kings 16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above …

2 Kings 21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the …

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley …

Ephesians 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, …

Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

Jezebel

1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness …

2 Kings 9:10,30-37 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there …

the dogs Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, `the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves.'

wall. or, ditch

Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

But there

1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, …

1 Kings 16:30-33 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above …

2 Kings 23:25 And like to him was there no king before him, that turned to the …

sell himself

1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, …

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the …

Isaiah 50:1 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …

Isaiah 52:3 For thus said the LORD, You have sold yourselves for nothing; and …

Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh…

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

whom Jezebel

1 Kings 21:7 And Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of …

1 Kings 11:1-4 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter …

1 Kings 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk …

1 Kings 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that …

1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods …

Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of …

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares …

Mark 6:17-27 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold on John, and bound …

Acts 6:12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, …

Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their …

stirred up. or, incited

And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

very abominably

2 Chronicles 15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, …

Isaiah 65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which …

Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; …

Jeremiah 44:4 However, I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early …

Ezekiel 18:12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not …

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will …

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …

according to

Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the …

Leviticus 18:25-30 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof …

Leviticus 20:22,23 You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and …

Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to …

2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his …

2 Kings 21:2,11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the …

2 Chronicles 33:2,9 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like to the …

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed …

Ezra 9:11-14 Which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The …

Psalm 106:35-39 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works…

Ezekiel 16:47 Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: …

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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