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The Amorites appear here as representatives of the old Canaanite
nations (Genesis 15:16 note). It seems to be implied here that their
idolatries were in the main identical with those of the Phoenician...
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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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IDOLS. filthy idols. Compare Leviticus 26:30....
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_he did very abominably_ Ahab himself cast aside the worship which his
predecessors had inaugurated and followed, and followed Jezebel in her
idolatry.
_according to all things as did the Amorites_ Be...
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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...
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_AND OF JEZEBEL ALSO SPAKE THE LORD, SAYING, THE DOGS SHALL EAT
JEZEBEL BY THE WALL OF JEZREEL._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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21:26 idols, (a-8) See Leviticus 26:30 ; Deuteronomy 29:17 ; Ezekiel
6:4 ....
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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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AMORITES] here used for the heathen inhabitants of Canaan generally:
see on Genesis 10:16; Joshua 24:18....
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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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AS DID THE AMORITES. — The reference is probably not only to the
idolatry and worship of false gods, but to the nameless abominations
always connected with such worship....
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וַ יַּתְעֵ֣ב מְאֹ֔ד לָ לֶ֖כֶת
אַחֲרֵ֣י הַ
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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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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...
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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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_Amorrhites. The Sidonians still adored the idols Baal and Astaroth,
with the utmost exertions of cruelty and lust. This was the religion
which Achab wished to establish, more than any of his predeces...
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(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...
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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 HE DID VERY ABOMINABLY IN FOLLOWING IDOLS,.... Which were
abominable to the Lord; "dunghill gods", as the Tigurine version:
ACCORDING TO ALL THINGS AS DID THE AMORITES, WHOM THE LORD CAST OUT
BEF...
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And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all
[things] as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the
children of Israel.
Ver. 26. _And he did very abominably._] All idolatr...
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_There was none like unto Ahab_ Among all the kings of Israel who had
been before him. _Whom Jezebel his wife stirred up_ This is added to
show that temptations to sin are no excuse to the sinner. _He...
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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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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...
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THE AMORITES, i.e. the seven nations of Canaan, all called by this
name, as GENESIS 15:16, GENESIS 48:22 AMOS 2:9,10....
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1 Kings 21:26 very H3966 abominably H8581 (H8686) following H3212
(H8800) H310 idols H1544 Amorites H567 done...
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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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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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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...
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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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1 Peter 4:3; 2 Chronicles 15:8; 2 Chronicles 33:2; 2 Chronicles 33:9;...