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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

1 Kings 21:13

And there came in two men, children of Belial, conscienceless scoundrels, and sat before him, as his accusers; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 21:13. _AND STONED HIM WITH STONES_] As they pretended to find him guilty of treason against God and the king, it is likely they destroyed the whole of his _family_; and then the king s...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Naboth had sons who were also put to death at this time (marginal reference). It is not improbable that they were stoned together with their parent (compare Joshua 7:24). In the East, a parent’s guilt...

  • 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

    STONED HIM. One of the nine cases of stoning. See note on Leviticus 24:14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And there came in two men, children of Belial_ R.V. AND THE TWO MEN, SONS OF BELIAL, CAME IN. The Hebrew noun is definite and the sense requires that it should be indicated. _witnessed_ R.V. BARE WI...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THERE CAME IN TWO MEN, CHILDREN OF BELIAL, AND SAT BEFORE HIM: AND THE MEN OF BELIAL WITNESSED AGAINST HIM, EVEN AGAINST NABOTH, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PEOPLE, SAYING, NABOTH DID BLASPHEME GOD AN...

  • 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...

  • 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

    CARRIED HIM FORTH — as usual, in order to avoid polluting the city with blood — possibly to his own ground, the coveted vineyard itself....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ֠ יָּבֹאוּ שְׁנֵ֨י הָ אֲנָשִׁ֥ים בְּנֵֽי ־ב

  • 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

    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,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Devil. Hebrew Belial, ver. 10. Protestants, "and the men of Belial witnessed against him." --- City, as was requisite. (Calmet) --- Stoned him, for blasphemy, Leviticus xxiv. 16., and 23._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    AND THERE CAME IN TWO MEN, CHILDREN OF BELIAL, AND SAT BEFORE HIM,.... Which position showed that they were his accusers, and had a charge against him; it being usual for the accusers and accused to b...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God a...

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

    _They stoned him_ And, it seems, his sons too, either with him, or after him; for God afterward says, (2 Kings 9:26,) _I have seen the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons._ Let us commit the ke...

  • 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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    And his sons with him, as may be thought from 2 KINGS 9:26, that so the king might have an undisturbed possession; for which they might pretend those examples, NUMBERS 16:32 JOSHUA 7:24. But these wer...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 21:13 two H8147 men H582 scoundrels H1121 H1100 came H935 (H8799) sat H3427 (H8799) scoundrels...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    2 Kings 9:26; Acts 24:5; Acts 6:11; Acts 7:57; Amos 7:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Stoned him — And it seems his sons too, either with him or after him. For God afterward says, (2 Kings 9:26) I have seen the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons. Let us commit the keeping of our...

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