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.
Ver. 18. Which is in Samaria.] There was Ahab when the message was given in charge to Elias; but in the vineyard at Jezreel when Elias met him.
Verse 1 Kings 21:18. _GO DOWN TO MEET AHAB_] This was the next day after the murder, as we learn from the above quotation, 2 Kings 9:26....
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
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...
Elijah meets Ahab and tells him God's sentence. Ahab repents and the punishment is deferred (Not in Chronicles) 18. _which_is [R.V. DWELLETH] _in Samaria_ This change is necessary for consistency in t...
C. THE CONDEMNATION BY ELIJAH 21:17-24 TRANSLATION (17) And the word of the LORD came unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying, (18) Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold he i...
_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....
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...
BEHOLD.. VINEYARD] The details of the meeting between the king and the prophet are given somewhat differently in 2 Kings 9:26....
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...
WHICH IS IN SAMARIA. — These words are almost unmeaning, unless they literally signify that Ahab was then in Samaria, not in Jezreel. To interpret them as simply part of Ahab’s title, or as signifying...
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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,...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
HUMBLED BY THE PROPHET'S REBUKE 1 Kings 21:17 Once before, when his presence had been urgently needed, Elijah had fled for his life. But there was no vacillation now. He dared face not only Ahab, but...
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,...
(17) В¶ And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, (18) 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...
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...
ARISE, GO DOWN TO MEET AHAB KING OF ISRAEL, WHICH IS IN SAMARIA,.... Whose seat was there, his palace where he dwelt; and Benjamin of Tudela says g, that in his time might be discerned in Samaria the...
_Arise, go to meet Ahab, which is in Samaria_ That is, who reigns in Samaria. _Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth_ Or, rather, he will be there by the time thou comest thither. _And speak unto hi...
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...
Arise, go down, namely, from the mountain district in which he was then staying, TO MEET AHAB, KING OF ISRAEL, WHICH IS IN SAMARIA; BEHOLD, HE IS IN THE VINEYARD OF NABOTH, WHITHER HE IS GONE DOWN TO...
The Prophecy of Ahab's Doom...
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...
17-29 Blessed Paul complains that he was sold under sin, Romans 7:14, as a poor captive against his will; but Ahab was willing, he sold himself to sin; of choice, and as his own act and deed, he love...
WHICH IS IN SAMARIA; either who now is there, and about to depart thence to Jezreel; or who commonly dwells there. HE IS IN THE VINEYARD, or rather, he will be; by that time that thou comest thither t...
1 Kings 21:18 Arise H6965 (H8798) down H3381 (H8798) meet H7125 (H8800) Ahab H256 king H4428 Israel...
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...
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...
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...
_And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite._ ELIJAH’S MISSION OF JUDGMENT We bend our attention exclusively on the part played by Elijah amid these terrible transactions. I. He was called...
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....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 21:19. HAST THOU KILLED, AND ALSO TAKEN POSSESSION?—Crime traced back to the true criminal, for he, even more than Jezebel, actuated the deed. God is “swift t...
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
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...
1 Kings 13:32; 2 Chronicles 22:9...