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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

1 Kings 21:29

Verse 1 Kings 21:29. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself] He did abase himself; he did truly repent him of his sins, and it was such a repentance as was genuine in the sight of God: He humbleth himself BEFORE ME.

The penitent heart ever meets the merciful eye of God; repentance is highly esteemed by the Father of compassion, even where it is comparatively shallow and short-lived. Any measure of godly sorrow has a proportionate measure of God's regard; where it is deep and lasting, the heart of God is set upon it. He that mourns shall be comforted; thus hath God spoken, and though repentance for our past sins can purchase no favour, yet without it God will not grant us his salvation.

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See also 1 Kings 21:29 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE EVIL - i. e., the main evil. See 1 Kings 21:19 note; and compare 1 Kings 22:38 with marginal reference....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOT BRING. So the judgment on Solomon was postponed (1 Kings 11:12) for his father's sake....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _because he humbleth himself before me_ These words are left out by the LXX., as are also -upon his house" at the close of the verse. _I will not bring the evil in his days_ That is, the whole penalty...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 353 THE FEIGNED REPENTANCE OF AHAB 1 Kings 21:27. 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 sackcl...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. THE CONTRITION OF AHAB 21:25-29 TRANSLATION (25) But there was none like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. (26) He erred exceedingly in go...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    I WILL NOT BRING, etc.] The judgment incurred by Solomon had been postponed (1 Kings 11:12) for his father's sake. In Ahab's case the threatened penalty was mitigated in consideration of his repentanc...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HOW AHAB HUMBLETH HIMSELF. — As there is something entirely characteristic of Ahab’s impressible nature in this burst of penitence; so in the acceptance of it there is a remarkable illustration of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲֽ רָאִ֔יתָ כִּֽי ־נִכְנַ֥ע אַחְאָ֖ב מִ לְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his (l) son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. (l) Mea...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sake. Hebrew, "before me," publicly. (Haydock) --- The threat of the prophet caused Achab to invest his son with the royal dignity, and Josaphat followed his example. (Salien, the year before Christ...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS IT is impossible to behold human nature, as represented in such characters as Ahab and Jezebel, but with the most humiliating pain and sorrow, from our connection in the general mass. When...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (27) 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. (28) And the word of the LORD came...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SEEST THOU HOW AHAB HUMBLETH HIMSELF BEFORE ME?.... Which yet was but an external humiliation, to be seen only with bodily eyes, as were all his actions and postures, before observed. Some Jewish writ...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. Ver. 29. _I...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me?_ His humiliation was real, though not lasting, and accordingly pleasing to God. This discovers the great goodness of God, and his readiness to show mer...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Prophecy of Ahab's Doom...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before Me? Because he humbleth himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. Thus the punis...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BEFORE ME, i.e. in my presence, and upon my threatening. But this humiliation or repentance of Ahab's was only external and superficial, arising from the terror of God's judgments; and not sincere and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 21:29 See H7200 (H8804) Ahab H256 humbled H3665 (H8738) before H6440 Because H3282 humbled H3665 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 21:29 BECAUSE HE HAS HUMBLED HIMSELF. Ahab was the worst of kings (vv. 1 Kings 21:25). He added to Jeroboam’s sin the worship of Baal ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 10:11; 2 Kings 10:1; 2 Kings 9:25; 2 Kings

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Humbleth himself — His humiliation was real, though not lasting, and accordingly pleasing to God. This discovers the great goodness of God, and his readiness to shew mercy. It teaches us to take notic...

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