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Verse 1 Kings 21:2. _GIVE ME THY VINEYARD_] The request of Ahab seems
at first view fair and honourable. Naboth's vineyard was nigh to the
palace of Ahab, and he wished to add it to his own for a _ki...
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I WILL GIVE THEE THE WORTH OF IT IN MONEY - literally, “I will give
thee silver, the worth of it.” Money, in our sense of the word, that
is to say, coins of definite values, did not yet exist. The fir...
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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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GIVE ME. Compare 1 Samuel 8:14, of which this is. fulfilment....
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_that I may have it for a garden of herds_ These events must have
taken place during a time of peace, when Ahab had leisure to think
about the convenient arrangement of his grounds. And it is most
pro...
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AHAB SPAKE UNTO NABOTH, &C.— The account of Ahab's coveting Naboth's
vineyard is immediately set after his treatment of Ben-hadad, to shew
his extreme great wickedness in sparing _him,_ as Saul did Ag...
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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 AHAB SPAKE UNTO NABOTH, SAYING, GIVE ME THY VINEYARD, THAT I MAY
HAVE IT FOR A GARDEN OF HERBS, BECAUSE IT IS NEAR UNTO MY HOUSE: AND I
WILL GIVE THEE FOR IT A BETTER VINEYARD THAN IT; OR, IF IT...
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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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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 Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, (a) Give me thy vineyard, that I
may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house:
and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or],...
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Herbs. The taste of eastern nations is very different from ours. The
Syrians delight in seeing gardens filled with melons, onions, &c., and
they cannot conceive what pleasure we can find in rambling r...
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(1) В¶ And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the
Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of
Ahab king of Samaria. (2) And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give...
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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 AHAB SPAKE UNTO NABOTH, SAYING, GIVE ME THY VINEYARD, THAT I MAY
HAVE IT FOR A GARDEN OF HERBS,.... For a kitchen garden to produce
eatables of the vegetable kind for his household, or for a flowe...
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And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may
have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and
I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if...
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_Which was in Jezreel_ Where one of Ahab's palaces was, as the other
was in Samaria. _That I may have it for a garden of herbs_ For a
flower-garden, as some understand it. Ahab made a fair proposal fo...
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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 MURDER OF NABOTH...
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And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard that I may
have it for a garden of herbs, a vegetable garden, BECAUSE IT IS NEAR
UNTO MY HOUSE; AND I WILL GIVE THEE FOR IT A BETTER VINEYARD T...
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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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SEEM GOOD TO THEE:
_ Heb._ be good in thine eyes...
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1-4 Naboth, perhaps, had been pleased that he had a vineyard situated
so near the palace, but the situation proved fatal to him; many a
man's possessions have been his snare, and his neighbourhood to...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 21:2 Ahab H256 spoke H1696 (H8762) Naboth H5022 saying H559
(H8800) Give H5414 (H8798) vineyard...
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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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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 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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1 Kings 21:2
From this story we learn: (1) what a sacred thing property is; that a
man's possessions (if they be justly come by) belong to him, in the
sight of God as well as in the sight of man, and...
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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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_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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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 Samuel 29:6; 1 Samuel 8:14; 1 Samuel 8:6; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Kings
9:27