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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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DISCOURSE: 353
THE FEIGNED REPENTANCE OF AHAB
1 Kings 21:27. And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that
he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and
lay in sackcl...
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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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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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וַֽ יְהִי֙ דְּבַר ־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל
־אֵלִיָּ֥הוּ ה
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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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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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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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(27) And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent
his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in
sackcloth, and went softly. (28) And the word of the LORD came...
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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 THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ELIJAH THE TISHBITE,.... After he was
gone from Ahab, and Ahab had been some time in this humble posture;
the Targum calls it the word of prophecy, and so it was, as t...
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And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Ver. 28. _And the word of the Lord._] Who had soon seen this - though
but feigned and forced - humiliation, and sent words of comfort. _O...
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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 the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,...
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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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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...