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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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_Him that dieth_&c. See above, 1 Kings 14:11....
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C. THE CONDEMNATION BY ELIJAH 21:17-24
TRANSLATION
(17) And the word of the LORD came unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
(18) Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria;
behold he i...
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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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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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(21-24) BEHOLD, I WILL BRING EVIL. — Distinct from that message of
personal judgment is the doom of utter destruction pronounced on the
dynasty of Omri — the same in substance, and almost in word, as...
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הַ מֵּ֤ת לְ אַחְאָב֙ בָּ † עִ֔יר...
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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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_Eat him. Yet God remitted something from the severity of this
sentence; and Achab was buried in Samaria, chap. xxii. 37. But his son
was deprived of burial. (Tirinus) (4 Kings ix. 26.) --- According...
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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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HIM THAT DIETH OF AHAB IN THE CITY THE DOGS SHALL EAT, AND HIM THAT
DIETH IN THE FIELD THE FOWLS OF THE AIR SHALL EAT. That is, they shall
have no burial, see 1 Kings 14:11 hitherto are the words of t...
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Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that
dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
Ver. 24. _Him that dieth._] See 1 Kings 14:11 ....
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_The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall_ Or, _by the ditch_, or
_fort;_ or, _in the portion, of Jezreel_, as the Hebrew word בחל,
_becheel_, often signifies, and as it is explained 2 Kings 9:36, a
pas...
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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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Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and him that
dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat; they would, by the
Lord's curse, he denied even an honorable burial....
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The Prophecy of Ahab's Doom...
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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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1 Kings 21:24 dogs H3611 eat H398 (H8799) Ahab H256 dies H4191 (H8801)
city H5892 birds H5775 air...
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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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“ Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs will eat, and him who
dies in the field will the birds of the heavens eat.”
A similar fate to some extent awaited all the house of Ahab, except in
their ca...
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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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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 21:23 THE DOGS SHALL EAT... THE BIRDS OF THE
HEAVENS SHALL EAT. Israelites considered it a terrible thing not to be
given a proper burial ...
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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 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; Ezekiel 32:4; Ezekiel 32:5; Ezekiel 39
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Him that dieth, &c. — Punishments after death are here most insisted
on. And these, tho' lighting on the body only, yet undoubtedly were
designed as figures of the soul's misery in an after state....