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An Israelite at Jezreel, who declined selling his ancestral vineyard to Ahab, Leviticus 25:23, Leviticus 1:25; and was in consequence murdered, on a false charge of blasphemy contrived by Jezebel the queen. Ahab took immediate possession of the coveted vineyard—perhaps as being legally for forfeited to the government, construing blasphemy as treason; or it may be, that the heirs were deterred from asserting their claim by a dread of the unscrupulous arts of Jezebel. Elijah, however, did not fear to denounce against the king and queen the vengeance of One "higher than they," 1 Kings 1:21-29 2 Kings 1:9-26, 2 Kings 1:9 Ecclesiastes 5:8.