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The Book of 1st Kings
Chapter 21


1st Kings
Chapter 21


1 Now Naboth the
Jezreelite had a vineyard in
Jezreel, beside the palace
of Ahab king of Samaria.



2 And after this Ahab said
to Naboth, "Give me your
vineyard, that I may have
it for a vegetable garden,
because it is near my
house; and I will give you
a better vineyard for it; or,
if it seems good to you, I
will give you its value in
money."



















3 But Naboth said to
Ahab, "YAHWEH forbid
that I should give you the
inheritance of my fathers."
4 And Ahab went into his
house vexed and sullen
because of what Naboth
the Jezreelite had said to
him; for he had said, "I
will not give you the
inheritance of my fathers."
And he lay down on his
bed, and turned away his
face, and would eat no
food.
5 But Jezebel his wife
came to him, and said to
him, "Why is your spirit so
vexed that you eat no
food?"
6 And he said to her,
"Because I spoke to
Naboth the Jezreelite, and
said to him, 'Give me your
vineyard for money; or
else, if it please you, I will
give you another vineyard
for it'; and he answered, 'I
will not give you my
vineyard.'"
7 And Jezebel his wife
said to him, "Do you now
govern Israel? Arise, and
eat bread, and let your
heart be cheerful; I will
give you the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite."
8 So she wrote letters in
Ahab's name and sealed
them with his seal, and she
sent the letters to the elders
and the nobles who dwelt
with Naboth in his city.




9 And she wrote in the
letters, "Proclaim a fast,
and set Naboth on high
among the people;

























































10 and set two base
fellows opposite him, and
let them bring a charge
against him, saying, 'You
have cursed God and the
king.' Then take him out,
and stone him to death."
11 And the men of his
city, the elders and the
nobles who dwelt in his
city, did as Jezebel had
sent word to them. As it
was written in the letters
which she had sent to
them,
12 they proclaimed a fast,
and set Naboth on high
among the people.
13 And the two base
fellows came in and sat
opposite him; and the base
fellows brought a charge
against Naboth, in the
presence of the people,
saying, "Naboth cursed
God and the king." So they
took him outside the city,
and stoned him to death
with stones.
14 Then they sent to
Jezebel, saying, "Naboth
has been stoned; he is
dead."
15 As soon as 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."
16 And as soon as Ahab
heard that Naboth was
dead, Ahab arose to go
down to the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite, to
take possession of it.
17 Then the word of
YAHWEH came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying,
18 "Arise, go down to
meet Ahab king of Israel,
who is in Samaria; behold,
he is in the vineyard of
Naboth, where he has gone
to take possession.




19 And you shall say to
him, 'Thus says
YAHWEH, "Have you killed,
and also taken
possession?"' And you
shall say to him, 'Thus
says YAHWEH: "In the
place where dogs licked
up the blood of Naboth
shall dogs lick your own
blood."'"













20 Ahab said to Elijah,
"Have you found me, O
my enemy?" He answered,
"I have found you, because
you have sold yourself to
do what is evil in the sight
of YAHWEH.







21 Behold, I will bring
evil upon you; I will
utterly sweep you away,
and will cut off from Ahab
every male, bond or free,
in Israel;













22 and I 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 anger to
which you have provoked
me, and because you have
made Israel to sin.



































23 And of Jezebel
YAHWEH also said, 'The
dogs shall eat Jezebel
within the bounds of
Jezreel.'
24 Any one belonging to
Ahab who dies in the city
the dogs shall eat; and any
one of his who dies in the
open country the birds of
the air shall eat."





































25 (There was none who
sold himself to do what
was evil in the sight of
YAHWEH like Ahab, whom
Jezebel his wife incited.
26 He did very
abominably in going after
idols, as the Amorites had
done, whom YAHWEH
cast out before the people
of Israel.)



























27 And when Ahab heard
those words, he rent his
clothes, and put sackcloth
upon his flesh, and fasted
and lay in sackcloth, and
went about dejectedly.







28 And the word of
YAHWEH came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying,




29 "Have you seen how
Ahab has humbled himself
before me? Because he has
humbled himself before
me, I will not bring the
evil in his days; but in his
son's days I will bring the
evil upon his house."
Chronicles or
Kings



















































































































































































































1 Kings 22:38 And they
washed the chariot by the
pool of Samaria, and the
dogs licked up his blood,
and the harlots washed
themselves in it, according
to the word of YAHWEH
which he had spoken.
2 Kings 9:26 'As surely
as I saw yesterday the
blood of Naboth and the
blood of his sons says
YAHWEH I will requite
you on this plot of
ground.' Now therefore
take him up and cast him
on the plot of ground, in
accordance with the word
of YAHWEH."




1 Kings 18:17 When
Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab
said to him, "Is it you, you
troubler of Israel?"
1 Kings 21:25 There was
none who sold himself to
do what was evil in the
sight of YAHWEH like
Ahab, whom Jezebel his
wife incited.




1 Kings 14:10 therefore
behold, I will bring evil
upon the house of
Jeroboam, and will cut off
from Jeroboam every
male, both bond and free
in Israel, and will utterly
consume the house of
Jeroboam, as a man burns
up dung until it is all gone.
2 Kings 9:8 For the whole
house of Ahab shall perish;
and I will cut off from
Ahab every male, bond or
free, in Israel.




1 Kings 12:30 And this
thing became a sin, for the
people went to the one at
Bethel and to the other as
far as Dan.
1 Kings 13:34 And this
thing became sin to the
house of Jeroboam, so as
to cut it off and to destroy
it from the face of the
earth.
1 Kings 14:16 And he
will give Israel up because
of the sins of Jeroboam,
which he sinned and which
he made Israel to sin."
1 Kings 15:29 And as
soon as he was king, he
killed all the house of
Jeroboam; he left to the
house of Jeroboam not one
that breathed, until he had
destroyed it, according to
the word of YAHWEH
which he spoke by his
servant Ahijah the
Shilonite;
1 Kings 16:3 behold, I
will utterly sweep away
Baasha and his house, and
I will make your house
like the house of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 16:11 When he
began to reign, as soon as
he had seated himself on
his throne, he killed all the
house of Baasha; he did
not leave him a single
male of his kinsmen or his
friends.



1 Kings 14:10 therefore
behold, I will bring evil
upon the house of
Jeroboam, and will cut off
from Jeroboam every
male, both bond and free
in Israel, and will utterly
consume the house of
Jeroboam, as a man burns
up dung until it is all gone.
1 Kings 14:11 Any one
belonging to Jeroboam
who dies in the city the
dogs shall eat; and any one
who dies in the open
country the birds of the air
shall eat; for YAHWEH
has spoken it."'
1 Kings 16:1 And the
word of YAHWEH came
to Jehu the son of Hanani
against Baasha, saying,
1 Kings 16:2 "Since I
exalted you out of the dust
and made you leader over
my people Israel, and you
have walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and have made
my people Israel to sin,
provoking me to anger
with their sins,
1 Kings 16:3 behold, I
will utterly sweep away
Baasha and his house, and
I will make your house
like the house of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 16:4 Any one
belonging to Baasha who
dies in the city the dogs
shall eat; and any one of
his who dies in the field
the birds of the air shall
eat."




1 Kings 16:30 And Ahab
the son of Omri did evil in
the sight of YAHWEH
more than all that were
before him.
1 Kings 16:31 And as if it
had been a light thing for
him to walk in the sins of
Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, he took for wife
Jezebel the daughter of
Ethbaal king of the
Sidonians, and went and
served Baal, and
worshiped him.
1 Kings 16:32 He erected
an altar for Baal in the
house of Baal, which he
built in Samaria.
1 Kings 16:33 And Ahab
made an Asherah. Ahab
did more to provoke
YAHWEH, the God of Israel,
to anger than all the kings
of Israel who were before
him.
1 Kings 21:20 Ahab said
to Elijah, "Have you found
me, O my enemy?" He
answered, "I have found
you, because you have
sold yourself to do what is
evil in the sight of
YAHWEH.




2 Kings 6:30 When the
king heard the words of
the woman he rent his
clothes now he was
passing by upon the
wall and the people
looked, and behold, he had
sackcloth beneath upon his
body











2 Kings 9:25 Jehu said to
Bidkar his aide, "Take him
up, and cast him on the
plot of ground belonging
to Naboth the Jezreelite;
for remember, when you
and I rode side by side
behind Ahab his father,
how YAHWEH uttered
this oracle against him:
2 Kings 9:26 'As surely
as I saw yesterday the
blood of Naboth and the
blood of his sons says
YAHWEH I will requite
you on this plot of
ground.' Now therefore
take him up and cast him
on the plot of ground, in
accordance with the word
of YAHWEH."
2 Kings 9:27 When
Ahaziah the king of Judah
saw this, he fled in the
direction of Bethhaggan.
And Jehu pursued him,
and said, "Shoot him also";
and they shot him in the
chariot at the ascent of
Gur, which is by Ibleam.
And he fled to Megiddo,
and died there.
2 Kings 9:28 His servants
carried him in a chariot to
Jerusalem, and buried him
in his tomb with his fathers
in the city of David.
2 Kings 9:29 In the
eleventh year of Joram the
son of Ahab, Ahaziah
began to reign over Judah.
2 Kings 9:30 When Jehu
came to Jezreel, Jezebel
heard of it; and she painted
her eyes, and adorned her
head, and looked out of
the window.
2 Kings 9:31 And as Jehu
entered the gate, she said,
"Is it peace, you Zimri,
murderer of your master?"
2 Kings 9:32 And he
lifted up his face to the
window, and said, "Who is
on my side? Who?" Two
or three eunuchs looked
out at him.
2 Kings 9:33 He said,
"Throw her down." So
they threw her down; and
some of her blood
spattered on the wall and
on the horses, and they
trampled on her.
2 Kings 9:34 Then he
went in and ate and drank;
and he said, "See now to
this cursed woman, and
bury her; for she is a
king's daughter."
2 Kings 9:35 But when
they went to bury her, they
found no more of her than
the skull and the feet and
the palms of her hands.
2 Kings 9:36 When they
came back and told him,
he said, "This is the word
of YAHWEH, which he
spoke by his servant Elijah
the Tishbite, 'In the
territory of Jezreel the
dogs shall eat the flesh of
Jezebel;
2 Kings 9:37 and the
corpse of Jezebel shall be
as dung upon the face of
the field in the territory of
Jezreel, so that no one can
say, This is Jezebel.'"
Samuel










1 Samuel 8:11 He said,
"These will be the ways of
the king who will reign
over you: he will take your
sons and appoint them to
his chariots and to be his
horsemen, and to run
before his chariots;
1 Samuel 8:12 and he will
appoint for himself
commanders of thousands
and commanders of fifties,
and some to plow his
ground and to reap his
harvest, and to make his
implements of war and the
equipment of his chariots.
1 Samuel 8:13 He will
take your daughters to be
perfumers and cooks and
bakers.
1 Samuel 8:14 He will
take the best of your fields
and vineyards and olive
orchards and give them to
his servants.



















































1st Samuel 7:3 Then
Samuel said to all the
house of Israel, "If you are
returning to YAHWEH
with all your heart, then
put away the foreign gods
and the Ashtaroth from
among you, and direct
your heart to YAHWEH,
and serve him only, and he
will deliver you out of the
hand of the Philistines."
1st Samuel 7:4 So Israel
put away the Baals and the
Ashtaroth, and they served
YAHWEH only.
1st Samuel 7:5 Then
Samuel said, "Gather all
Israel at Mizpah, and I will
pray to YAHWEH for
you."
1st Samuel 7:6 So they
gathered at Mizpah, and
drew water and poured it
out before YAHWEH, and
fasted on that day, and
said there, "We have
sinned against YAHWEH."
And Samuel judged the
people of Israel at Mizpah.
1st Samuel 14:23 So
YAHWEH delivered Israel
that day; and the battle
passed beyond Bethaven.
1st Samuel 14:24 And the
men of Israel were
distressed that day; for
Saul laid an oath on the
people, saying, "Cursed be
the man who eats food
until it is evening and I am
avenged on my enemies."
So none of the people
tasted food.
1st Samuel 14:25 And all
the people came into the
forest; and there was
honey on the ground.
1st Samuel 14:26 And
when the people entered
the forest, behold, the
honey was dropping, but
no man put his hand to his
mouth; for the people
feared the oath.




































































2 Samuel 12:9 Why have
you despised the word of
YAHWEH, to do what is
evil in his sight? You have
smitten Uriah the Hittite
with the sword, and have
taken his wife to be your
wife, and have slain him
with the sword of the
Ammonites.



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