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TO TAKE POSSESSION OF IT - The goods of traitors appear to have been
forfeited to the crown by the Jewish law as they still are almost
universally throughout the East. Compare 2 Samuel 16:4....
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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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_when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead_ Here the LXX. adds -he rent his
garments and covered himself with sackcloth". This clause must be
entirely out of place. Josephus gives us a detail far more in h...
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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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_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...
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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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WHEN AHAB HEARD. — It is characteristic of Ahab that he takes care
to ask no question about Naboth’s death, desirous “to be innocent
of the knowledge,” and yet tacitly to “applaud the deed.” The
guilt...
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וַ יְהִ֛י כִּ שְׁמֹ֥עַ אַחְאָ֖ב כִּ֣י
מֵ֣ת
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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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Of it, on the title of confiscation, as Naboth had been condemned for
high treason; (see 2 Kings ix. 7.; Menochius) or because there was no
heir left, ver. 10. Some assert, that Naboth was Achab's unc...
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(15) 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...
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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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AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN AHAB HEARD THAT NABOTH WAS DEAD,.... Of
which he was informed by Jezebel:
THAT AHAB ROSE UP TO GO DOWN TO THE VINEYARD OF NABOTH THE JEZREELITE,
TO TAKE POSSESSION OF IT; if...
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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.
Ver. 16. _Ahab rose up to go down_] But bet...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 21:16 Ahab H256 heard H8085 (H8800) Naboth H5022 dead H4191
(H8804) Ahab H256 up H6965 ...
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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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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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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 Peter 2:15; 2 Samuel 1:13; 2 Samuel 11:25; 2 Samuel 23:15;...