1 Kings 21

1After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.Cross-references: Josh 19:18 · Judg 6:33 · 1Sam 29:1 · 1Ki 18:45 · 1Ki 20:35 · 2Chr 28:22 · +4 more

2Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Gen 16:6 · Ex 20:17 · Deut 5:21 · Deut 11:10 · 1Sam 8:6 · +10 more

3Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”Cross-references: Gen 44:7 · Gen 44:17 · Lev 25:23 · Num 36:7 · Josh 22:29 · Josh 24:16 · +15 more

4Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.Cross-references: Gen 4:5 · Num 22:13 · 2Sam 13:2 · 2Sam 13:4 · 1Ki 20:43 · 1Ki 21:3 · +9 more

5But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad that you eat no bread?”Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · 2Sam 13:4 · 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 19:2 · 1Ki 21:25 · +2 more

6He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”Cross-references: 1Ki 21:2 · Esth 5:9 · Esth 6:12 · Prov 14:30 · 1Tim 6:9 · James 4:2

7Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”Cross-references: 1Sam 8:4 · 1Sam 8:14 · 2Sam 13:4 · 1Ki 21:15 · Prov 30:31 · Eccl 4:1 · +4 more

8So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.Cross-references: Num 11:16 · Deut 16:18 · Deut 21:1 · 2Sam 11:14 · 1Ki 20:7 · 1Ki 21:1 · +8 more

9She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.Cross-references: Gen 34:13 · Isa 58:4 · Matt 2:8 · Matt 23:13 · Luke 20:47 · John 18:28

10Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”Cross-references: Ex 22:28 · Lev 24:15 · Deut 13:13 · Deut 19:15 · Judg 19:22 · Matt 26:59 · +3 more

11The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.Cross-references: Ex 1:17 · Ex 1:21 · Ex 23:1 · Lev 19:15 · 1Sam 22:17 · 1Sam 23:20 · +11 more

12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:8 · Isa 58:4

13The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.Cross-references: Ex 20:16 · Lev 24:11 · Num 15:35 · Deut 5:20 · Deut 13:10 · Deut 19:16 · +26 more

14Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”Cross-references: 2Sam 11:14 · Eccl 5:8 · Eccl 8:14

15When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”Cross-references: 1Ki 21:7 · Prov 1:10 · Prov 4:17

16When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.Cross-references: 2Sam 1:13 · 2Sam 4:9 · 2Sam 11:25 · 2Sam 23:15 · Ps 50:18 · Isa 33:15 · +3 more

17Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,Cross-references: 2Ki 1:15 · 2Ki 5:26 · Ps 9:12 · Isa 26:21

18“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:32 · 2Chr 22:9

19You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”Cross-references: Gen 3:11 · Gen 4:9 · Judg 1:7 · 2Sam 12:9 · 2Sam 12:11 · 1Ki 22:38 · +9 more

20Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.Cross-references: 1Ki 16:30 · 1Ki 18:17 · 1Ki 21:25 · 1Ki 22:8 · 2Ki 17:17 · 2Ki 21:2 · +11 more

21Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Deut 32:36 · 1Sam 25:22 · 1Sam 25:34 · 1Ki 14:10 · 2Ki 9:7 · +5 more

22I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”Cross-references: 1Ki 12:30 · 1Ki 14:16 · 1Ki 15:29 · 1Ki 15:34 · 1Ki 16:3 · 1Ki 16:11 · +1 more

23Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:25 · 2Ki 9:10 · 2Ki 9:30

24The dogs will eat whoever dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the field.”Cross-references: 1Ki 14:11 · 1Ki 16:4 · Isa 14:19 · Jer 15:3 · Ezek 32:4 · Ezek 39:18 · +1 more

25But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.Cross-references: 1Ki 11:1 · 1Ki 16:30 · 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 19:2 · 1Ki 21:7 · 1Ki 21:20 · +11 more

26He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · Lev 18:25 · Lev 20:22 · Deut 12:31 · 1Ki 15:12 · 2Ki 16:3 · +16 more

27When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.Cross-references: Gen 37:34 · 2Sam 3:31 · 2Sam 12:16 · 2Ki 6:30 · 2Ki 18:37 · Job 16:15 · +5 more

28Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

29“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · 2Ki 9:25 · 2Ki 9:33 · 2Ki 10:11 · Ps 18:44 · Ps 66:3 · +8 more