_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._ Naboth ... had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel. Ahab proposed to Naboth to give him a better in exchange, or to obtain it by purchase; but the owne... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ That I may have it for a garden of h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NABOTH SAID TO AHAB, THE LORD FORBID IT ME, THAT I SHOULD GIVE THE INHERITANCE OF MY FATHERS UNTO THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ He laid him down upon his... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JEZEBEL HIS WIFE CAME TO HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY IS THY SPIRIT SO SAD, THAT THOU EATEST NO BREAD?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Dost thus now govern the kingdom of Israel? - a sarcastic taunt: 'A pretty king then art! Canst thou use thy... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ So she wrote letters ... and sealed them with his seal. The seal-ring contained the name of the king, and gave validity to the do... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 that a heavy guilt lay on one, or some unknown party, who was charged with blaspheming God and the... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ God and the king. This order is always observed when God is spoken of as the supreme head or ruler of the theocracy, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THEY SENT TO JEZEBEL, SAYING, NABOTH IS STONED, AND IS DEAD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Jezebel ... said ... Arise, take possession. Naboth... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Ahab rose up to go down - from Samaria to Jezreel.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Go down to meet Ahab ... in the vineyard of Naboth. The place of meeting commanded a full view of the memorable scene of Elijah's controversy with the p... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Hast thou killed, and also taken possessio... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Thou hast sold thyself to work evil - i:e., allowed sin to acquire the unchecked and habitual mastery over thee (2 Kings 17:17; Roma... [ Continue Reading ]
_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,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Make thine house ... - (see the notes at 1 Kings 15:29; 1 Kings 16:3) Jezebel, though includ... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND OF JEZEBEL ALSO SPAKE THE LORD, SAYING, THE DOGS SHALL EAT JEZEBEL BY THE WALL OF JEZREEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Ahab ... rent his clothes ... went softly. He was not obdurate like Jezebel. This terrible announcement made a deep impression on the ki... [ Continue Reading ]