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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

1 Kings 21:25-26

There was none like unto Ahab Among all the kings of Israel who had been before him. Whom Jezebel his wife stirred up This is added to show that temptations to sin are no excuse to the sinner. He did very abominably in following idols, &c. There was no abomination which the people of Canaan committed, (here called the Amorites, according to their ancient name, Genesis 15:16,) which Ahab did not imitate.

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See also 1 Kings 21:25-26 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 25. _DID SELL HIMSELF TO WORK WICKEDNESS_] He hired himself to the devil for this very purpose, that he might _work_ wickedness. This was to be his _employment_, and at this he _laboured_. _IN...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHOM JEZEBEL STIRRED UP - The history of Ahab’s reign throughout exhibits him as completely governed by his imperious wife. Instances of her influence are seen in 1 Kings 21:7, 1 Kings 21:15, marginal...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    The Structure (p. 485) places the member, verses: 1 Kings 21:25, as within. parenthesis. NONE LIKE UNTO AHAB. Out of twenty bad kings Ahab was the worst. Compare 1 Kings 16:30; 1 Kings 16:33....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _to work wickedness_ R.V. TO DO THAT WHICH WAS EVIL. See above, 1 Kings 21:20. Ahab exceeded the wickedness of all the other kings in that he introduced Baal-worship, and allowed his wife to proceed...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND OF JEZEBEL ALSO SPAKE THE LORD, SAYING, THE DOGS SHALL EAT JEZEBEL BY THE WALL OF JEZREEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE DOGS SHALL EAT JEZEBEL. — In all his address to Ahab, Elijah has, as yet, disdained to name the instigator, on whom the coward king, no doubt, threw his guilt. Ahab stands revealed as the true cul...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רַ֚ק לֹֽא ־הָיָ֣ה כְ אַחְאָ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִתְמַכ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But there was none like unto Ahab, which did (i) sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. (i) By the wicked counsel of his wife he became a vile ido...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Now. Septuagint, "Moreover, Achab was foolishly sold, a man who was sold, &c., since Jezabel....changed him:" Greek: metetheken. His natural disposition was not perhaps so bad. But his unfortunate con...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THERE WAS NONE LIKE UNTO AHAB, WHICH DID SELL HIMSELF TO WORK WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,.... Not of any of his predecessors, even those whose families had been destroyed, as his would be...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. Ver. 25. _But there was none like unto Ahab._] A very non-such...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But there was none like unto Ahab, a note inserted by the historian, WHICH DID SELL HIMSELF TO WORK WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, WHOM JEZEBEL, HIS WIFE, STIRRED UP, their union being an unusua...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Prophecy of Ahab's Doom...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    STIRRED UP: Or, incited...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THERE WAS NONE LIKE UNTO AHAB; none among all the kings of Israel which had been before him. WHOM JEZEBEL HIS WIFE STIRRED UP: this is added to show that temptations to sin are no excuse to the sinner...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 21:25 Ahab H256 sold H4376 (H8694) do H6213 (H8800) wickedness H7451 sight H5869 LORD H3068 Jezebel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Kings 21:25 If the reign of Ahab had been written in any book save the Bible, far less heavy would be the thunder-clouds which gather round his name. Even the Bible gives a hint of better things: "T...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord._ AHAB I. An illustration of the depths of human depravity. 1. Ahab’s pre-eminence in sin (1 K...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 11:1; 1 Kings 16:30; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Was none — None among all the kings of Israel which had been before him. Whom Jezebel — This is added to shew, that temptations to sin are no excuse to the sinner....

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