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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 confessi
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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...
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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...
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_THEN THEY SENT TO JEZEBEL, SAYING, NABOTH IS STONED, AND IS DEAD._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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...
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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 l...
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וַֽ יִּשְׁלְח֖וּ אֶל ־אִיזֶ֣בֶל לֵ
אמֹ֑ר סֻקּ
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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,...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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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,...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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THEN THEY SENT TO JEZEBEL, SAYING, NABOTH IS STONED, AND IS DEAD. Not
only stoned, but stoned to death. This message was sent to her from
the magistrates of Jezreel; for though the letters came in Aha...
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Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
Ver. 14. _Then they sent to Jezebel._] She is certified of by all
these servile souls, whose lavishness was wrought upon by her
imper...
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_They sent to Jezebel_ By whom they were not ignorant the affairs of
the kingdom were in a great measure managed, and this design
contrived: _saying, Naboth is stoned_ Which they knew would be an
agre...
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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...
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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 c...
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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 pr...
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THEY SENT TO JEZEBEL; by whom they knew the affairs of the kingdom
were managed, and this design contrived....
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1 Kings 21:14 sent H7971 (H8799) Jezebel H348 saying H559 (H8800)
Naboth H5022 stoned H5619 (H8795) dead...
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JEZEBEL ARRANGES FOR THE DEATH OF NABOTH BY A FALSE ACCUSATION (1
KINGS 21:8).
The second step in the downward spiral was when Ahab abnegated his
authority by allowing Jezebel to use his name and seal...
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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...
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JEZEBEL ARRANGES NABOTH'S DEATH IN ORDER TO OBTAIN HIS VINEYARD FOR
AHAB WHO IS THEN SEVERELY REBUKED BY ELIJAH (1 KINGS 21:1).
The story of Naboth's Vineyard is introduced here in order to
illustrate...
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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,...
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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...
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_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
Ch...
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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....
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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...
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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 th
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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...
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2 Samuel 11:14; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Ecclesiastes 8:14...