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; One day Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard; it is close to my palace, and I want to use the land for a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard for it or, if you prefer, I will pay you a fair place."
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4. Naboth's Vineyard ... The episode of Naboth's Vineyard is the central fact given for Ahab's reign, and the specific reason given by the prophet (I Kg 21.19) for the destruction of the entire dynasty of Omri. It involves Ahab's greed for land and Jezebel's application of Phoenician (Baalistic) law to Israel.
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Naboth's Vineyard Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to ... Naboth's Vineyard 1 Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of...
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yet all avails him nothing without Naboth's vineyard. Wrong desires expose men to continual vexations, and those that are disposed to fret, however well off, may always find something or other to fret at. (1Ki 21:5-16...
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arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth" (v. 7). As Matthew Henry expressed it, "Under pretence of comforting her afflicted husband, she feeds his pride and passion, blowing the coals of his corruptions." She sympathized with his unlawful desire,
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Why shouldn't he have that nice vineyard? Naboth could get another one. It just was not fair; he should have what he wanted--or so he thought. ... I will give you Naboth's vineyard." How could Jezebel take Naboth's vineyard away from him and give it to Ahab? Jezebel was a wicked woman, so here is what she did.
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We finally figured out that he was talking about the story in 1 Kings 21 where King Ahab and Queen Jezebel take the vineyard of one of their subjects named Naboth. First they offer to buy the vineyard, but Naboth would like to keep his vineyard and declines their offer.
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Right next door to the palace was a well kept vineyard owned by a man named Naboth. This vineyard had belonged to his father, and his grandfather and others in the family from the time when they came into the land, hundreds of years before this.
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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” (vv. 15, 16). Jezebel was permitted to carry out her vile scheme and Ahab to acquire the coveted vineyard.
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And so the men did as Jezebel told them to do, and Naboth was stoned to death. When Jezebel heard about it, she told Ahab to get up and take possession of Naboth's vineyard and so Ahab did that.
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