1 Kings 21:9
What meaning of the 1 kings 21:9 in the Bible?
What does 1 Kings 21:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on higha among the people:"
What does 1 Kings 21:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on higha among the people:"
Verse 1 Kings 21:9. _PROCLAIM A FAST_] Intimate that there is some great calamity coming upon the nation, because of some evil tolerated in it. _SET NABOTH ON HIGH_] Bring him to a public trial....
The object of this fast was at once to raise a prejudice against Naboth, who was assumed by the elders to have disgraced the town; and at the same time to give an air of religion to the proceedings, w...
CHAPTER 21NABOTH'S VINEYARD _ 1. Naboth's refusal (1 Kings 21:1)_ 2. Jezebel's wicked deed (1 Kings 21:5) 3. Elijah pronounces divine judgment (1 Kings 21:17) 4. Ahab's wickedness and confession ...
THE STORY OF NABOTH. This is evidently not a part of the Elijah story of 1 Kings 17-19. There are certain differences of style; _e.g._ Ahab is described as king of Samaria (1); and Elijah does not, as...
ON HIGH: i.e. in. conspicuous place; or, perhaps, before the bar of justice....
_Proclaim a fast_ Let a day of humiliation be appointed, for it must be represented that a great wrong has been committed both against God and the king. Cf. 1 Samuel 7:6 where the people gathered at M...
PROCLAIM A FAST— It was always usual; upon the approach of any great calamity, or the apprehension of any national judgment, to _proclaim a fast._ Jez_e_bel orders such a fast to be observed, the bett...
B. THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST NABOTH 21:8-16 TRANSLATION (8) So she wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and unto the nobles which were i...
_AND SHE WROTE IN THE LETTERS, SAYING, PROCLAIM A FAST, AND SET NABOTH ON HIGH AMONG THE PEOPLE:_ Proclaim a fast ... These obsequious and unprincipled magistrates did according to orders. Pretending...
21:9 set (c-12) Or 'make ... sit.'...
NABOTH'S VINEYARD 1. After these things] The LXX places this chapter after 1 Kings 19, and so prevents the separation of 1 Kings 20:22, which are closely connected. JEZREEL] in the plain of Esdraelo...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 21 QUEEN JEZEBEL STEALS NABOTH’S FIELD V1 King Ahab of Samaria had a palace in Jezreel. Near the palace, there was a field. Naboth who li...
PROCLAIM A FAST. — This might be only to cover all that was to be so foully done with a cloak of religious observance, or, perhaps more probably, to imply that some secret sin had been committed, whic...
וַ תִּכְתֹּ֥ב בַּ † סְּפָרִ֖ים לֵ אמֹ֑ר קִֽרְאוּ ־צֹ֔ום וְ הֹושִׁ֥יבוּ אֶת ־נָבֹ֖ות בְּ...
NABOTH'S VINEYARD 1 Kings 21:1 "The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless is but for a moment." - Job 20:5 "If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide,...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1; 1 Kings 4:1; 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 8:1;...
This is a story in the private life of Ahab. Next to his own broad and rich possessions was a vineyard, the inheritance of a man who by comparison with Ahab was poor. Naboth, loyal to the law of God,...
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a (d) fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: (d) For then they used to enquire of men's faults: for no one could truly fast if he was a notoriou...
_Fast, as in a case of the greatest importance, where the welfare of the king and of the state are concerned. We have frequent mention of such extraordinary fasts, 2 Paralipomenon xx. 3., 1 Esdras vii...
(8) 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. (9) And she wrote in the let...
The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion, always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
At Jezebel's instigation, Ahab adds sin to sin, and a piece of flagrant injustice fills up the apostasy of the king of Israel. He enjoys the fruit of a crime which he had not courage to commit himself...
AND SHE WROTE IN THE LETTERS, SAYING, PROCLAIM A FAST,.... Pretending fears of some dreadful calamity coming upon the nation, and therefore fasting and humiliation were necessary to avert it, and it w...
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: Ver. 9. _Proclaim a fast._] On fast days they were wont to execute heinous offenders, and thereby to ge...
_She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast_ As if there had been some grievous crime committed, or some great calamity had befallen them, which all the people were to bewail, and purge themsel...
1 Ahab being denied Naboths vineyard, is grieued. 5 Iezebel writing letters against Naboth, he is condemned of blasphemie. 15 Ahab taketh possession of the vineyard. 17 Eliiah denounceth iudgements...
THE MURDER OF NABOTH...
THE COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF NABOTH (vs.1-16) When one adopts a sullen, sulking character, it is likely to develop more seriously. Ahab illustrated this in his dealings with Naboth the Jezreelite. He...
ON HIGH AMONG THE PEOPLE: _ Heb._ in the top of the people...
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 pri...
PROCLAIM A FAST, to remove all suspicion of hatred or evil design in Ahab, and to beget a good opinion of him amongst his people, as if his afflictions had done him good, and as if he were grown zealo...
1 Kings 21:9 wrote H3789 (H8799) letters H5612 saying H559 (H8800) Proclaim H7121 (H8798) fast H6685 seat H3427 (H8685) Naboth H5022 honor H7218 people H5971 Proclaim a fast - Genesis 34:13-17; Isaia...
AHAB IS CONDEMNED BY ELIJAH FOR BOTH HIS PAST BEHAVIOUR AND FOR WHAT JEZEBEL HAS DONE AND REPENTS BEFORE YHWH (1 KINGS 21:1). We now come to what the account has been building up to, the condemnation...
CONTENTS: Ahab covets Naboth's vineyard. Elijah announces Ahab's doom. CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Ahab, Naboth, Jezebel. CONCLUSIONS: One may covet and get what it is not God's will for them to have,...
1 Kings 21:3. _The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers._ Moses forbids the sale of an inheritance. Leviticus 25:23. Naboth had sons, it is presumed, and the sale would...
_Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs._ AHAB’S GARDEN OF HERBS Walking in the garden, what do we see? 1. Covetousness. God’s brand is upon covetousness. Contentment is a C...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 21:1 An apparently reinvigorated Elijah appears again in Jezreel to denounce another sin of Ahab and to foretell the destruction of Ahab’s family for all its sins. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var i...
AHAB AND THE VINEYARD OF NABOTH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 21:1. NABOTH THE JEZREELITE—_Naboth’_ נָבוֹת, _fruits_, according to Gesenius; but _pre-eminence_, according to Fürst. He was...
EXPOSITION THE STORY OF NABOTH. THE DOOM OF AHAB'S HOUSE. HIS PENITENCE.— 1 KINGS 21:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS [These words are omitted in the Vat. LXX; which, as before remarked, tra...
Now it came to pass after these things, that there was a fellow by the name of Naboth who had a vineyard, down in the area of mount Gilboa (1 Kings 21:1). And it was an excellent vineyard and it was...
Genesis 34:13; Isaiah 58:4; John 18:28; Luke 20:47; Matthew 2:8; Matthew 23:14...
A fast — To remove all suspicion of evil design in Ahab, and to beget a good opinion of him amongst his people, as if he were grown zealous for God's honour, and careful of his people's welfare, and t...