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Verse 1 Kings 21:4. _HE LAID HIM DOWN UPON HIS BED_] Poor soul! he
was lord over ten-twelfths of the land, and became miserable because
he could not get a poor man's vineyard added to all that he pos...
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UPON HIS BED - That is, “upon his couch.” The Jews, like other
Orientals, reclined upon couches at their meals (Amos 6:4; Ezekiel
23:41, etc.). Ahab turns his face toward the back of the couch,
reject...
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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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_And Ahab came into his house_ The last four words are omitted by the
LXX., as also the clause -because of the word … the inheritance of
my fathers." It is clear from the continuation of the story tha...
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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 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 LAID H...
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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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וַ יָּבֹא֩ אַחְאָ֨ב אֶל ־בֵּיתֹ֜ו
סַ֣ר וְ
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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 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 laid hi...
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_Fretting. The Hebrew terms are the same as [in] chap. xx. 43. What
weakness in Achab! Riches and honours are not capable of ensuring
content. (Calmet) --- "Who, thinkest thou, is poor; the man who is...
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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 AHAB CAME INTO HIS HOUSE HEAVY AND DISPLEASED,.... Just in the
same humour he was after the prophet had delivered his message to him,
1 Kings 20:43, where the same words are used as here:
BECAUSE...
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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 laid hi...
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_Ahab came into his house, heavy and displeased_ He was so vexed to be
denied by a subject the thing he wanted, that his vexation made him
sick, took away his stomach, and made company disagreeable to...
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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 Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased, in a peevish and
angry mood, BECAUSE OF THE WORD WHICH NABOTH THE JEZREELITE HAD SPOKEN
TO HIM; FOR HE HAD SAID, I 'WILL NOT GIVE THEE THE INHERITANC...
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THE MURDER OF NABOTH...
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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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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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TURNED AWAY HIS FACE FROM THE LIGHT, and company which either then
were with him, or might come to him to the wall, as Hezekiah did under
a like dejection of spirit, ISAIAH 38:2. WOULD EAT NO BREAD; r...
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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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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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_And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased._
TEMPER-A DEADLY SIN
In other and less dignified words, Ahab, when he could not get his own
way, went to bed in a sulk. I take it that all those wh...
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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 Kings 20:43; 1 Kings 21:3; 2 Samuel 13:2; 2 Samuel 13:4; Ecc