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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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JEROBOAM. Compare 1 Kings 16:3.
MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 12:30....
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_and made_[R.V. HAST MADE] _Israel to sin_ Cf. 1 Kings 16:2....
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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 WILL MAKE THINE HOUSE LIKE THE HOUSE OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF
NEBAT, AND LIKE THE HOUSE OF BAASHA THE SON OF AHIJAH, FOR THE
PROVOCATION WHEREWITH THOU HAST PROVOKED ME TO ANGER, AND MADE ISRAEL
TO...
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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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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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_Sin. god frequently inculcates the enormity of the crime of public
scandal. (Menochius)_...
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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 WILL MAKE THINE HOUSE LIKE THE HOUSE OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT,
AND LIKE THE HOUSE OF BAASHA THE SON OF AHIJAH,.... Two of his
predecessors, whose families were utterly destroyed, 1 Kings 15:29...
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And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation
wherewith thou hast provoked [me] to anger, and made Israel t...
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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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And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, whose families
were eradicated by divine decree, 1 Kings 15:29; 1 Kings 16:3, F...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 21:22 make H5414 (H8804) house H1004 house H1004 Jeroboam
H3379 son H1121 Nebat H5028 house H1004 Baasha
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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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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 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 15:29; 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kings 15:34; 1