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Verse 1 Kings 21:7. _DOST THOU NOW GOVERN THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL?_]
Naboth, not Ahab, is king. If _he_ have authority to _refuse_, and
_thou_ have no power to _take_, he is the greater man of the two....
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The meaning is, “Art thou king, and yet sufferest thyself to be
thwarted in this way by a mere subject? I, the queen, the weak woman,
will give thee the vineyard, if thou, the king, the strong man, wi...
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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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DOST. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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_Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel?_ There is not expressed
here any sign of a question in the original, but there can be no doubt
that this is the force of the words. The Hebrew order is -Th...
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DOST THOU NOW GOVERN THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL— _In truth the king has
very excellent authority in Israel!_ Houb....
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III. THE GREAT SOCIAL CRISIS 21:1-16
The third crisis[476] discussed in Chapter s 19-21 is of a different
nature than those previously treated. Here the threat is not of
external military domination,...
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_AND JEZEBEL HIS WIFE SAID UNTO HIM, DOST THOU NOW GOVERN THE KINGDOM
OF ISRAEL? ARISE, AND EAT BREAD, AND LET THINE HEART BE MERRY: I WILL
GIVE THEE THE VINEYARD OF NABOTH THE JEZREELITE._
Dost thus...
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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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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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DOST THOU NOW. — The scorn of Jezebel is, like the impatience of
Lady Macbeth, expressed in a striking boldness of emphasis. First
comes the bitter irony of the question, “Dost thou govern the
kingdom...
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וַ תֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אִיזֶ֣בֶל
אִשְׁתֹּ֔ו אַתָּ֕ה...
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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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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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And Jezebel his wife said unto him, (c) Dost thou now govern the
kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be
merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
(c) A...
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_Israel. Hebrew simply, "Now thou wilt make the kingdom of Israel."
(Calmet) --- Protestants, "Dost thou now govern the?" &c. (Haydock)
--- Thou art a fit person indeed to establish a kingdom! Ought n...
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(4) And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the
word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I
will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he lai...
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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 JEZEBEL HIS WIFE SAID UNTO HIM, DOST THOU NOW GOVERN THE KINGDOM
OF ISRAEL?.... Art thou not king of Israel? canst thou not do as thou
pleasest? hast thou not power to oblige a subject to obey thy...
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And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom
of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I
will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Ver. 7. _...
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_Jezebel said, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel?_ Art thou
fit to be a king who canst put up with such affronts from thy
subjects, and hast not courage to dispose of them and theirs as
seeme...
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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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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...
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DOST THOU NOW GOVERN THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL? art thou fit to be king,
that canst put up such affronts from thy subjects, and hast not the
courage to use thy absolute power to dispose of them and theirs...
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1 Kings 21:7 Jezebel H348 wife H802 said H559 (H8799) exercise H6213
(H8799) authority H4410 Israel...
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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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AHAB CRAVES NABOTH'S VINEYARD AND IS PROMISED IT BY JEZEBEL (1 KINGS
21:1).
The first step in the downward spiral is that of Ahab coveting
Naboth's vineyard. This was in direct disobedience to the cov...
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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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_I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth._
WIFELY AMBITION, GOOD AND BAD
How important that every wife have her ambition an elevated,
righteous, and divinely approved ambition! And here let me say th...
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_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...
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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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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 21:7 DO YOU NOW GOVERN ISRAEL? Jezebel is
the most powerful person in Israel (see 1 Kings 19:1), not her passive
husband Ahab. She despises Ahab when
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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...
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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 Kings 21:15; 1 Kings 21:16; 1 Samuel 8:4; 2 Samuel 13:4; Daniel 5:1
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Dost thou govern — Art thou fit to be king, that hast not courage to
use thy power....