1Ki 21 | TSK | STEP | Ahab being denied Naboth's vineyard, is grieved. Jezebel writing letters against Naboth, he is condemned of blasphemy. Ahab take possession of the vineyard. Elijah denounces judgments against Ahab and Jezebel. Wicked Ahab repenting, God defers the judgment. A.M. 3105. B.C. 899. after. Jezreel.

1 Kings 21

1 Ahab being denied Naboth's vineyard, is grieved.

5 Jezebel writing letters against Naboth, he is condemned of blasphemy.

15 Ahab take possession of the vineyard.

17 Elijah denounces judgments against Ahab and Jezebel.

25 Wicked Ahab repenting, God defers the judgment.

A.M. 3105. B.C. 899. after.

20:35-43; 2Ch 28:22; Ezr 9:13,14; Isa 9:13; Jer 5:3

Jezreel.

18:45; Jos 19:18; Jud 6:33; 1Sa 29:1; Ho 1:4,5

Give me.The request of Ahab, at first view, appears fair and honourable. But, as he most evidentially wished Naboth to alienate it finally, which was expressly forbidden and provided against in the law of God, (Le 25:14-28,) it was high iniquity in Ahab to tempt him to do it, and to covet it showed the depravity of his soul.

Ge 3:6; Ex 20:17; De 5:21; 1Sa 8:14; Jer 22:17; Hab 2:9-11

Lu 12:15; 1Ti 6:9; Jas 1:14,15

a garden of herbs.

2Ki 9:27; De 11:10; Ec 2:5; So 4:15

seem good to thee. Heb. be good in thine eyes.

Ge 16:6; 1Sa 8:6; 29:6

The Lord.

Ge 44:7,17; Jos 22:29; 24:16; 1Sa 12:23; 24:6; 26:9-11; 1Ch 11:19

Job 27:5; Ro 3:4,6,31; 6:2,15; 7:7,13; 1Co 6:15; Ga 6:14

I should give.

Le 25:23; Nu 36:7; Eze 46:18

heavy.

20:43; Job 5:2; Isa 57:20,21; Jon 4:1,9; Hab 2:9-12

I will not.

3; Nu 22:13,14

And he laid him.

Ge 4:5-8; 2Sa 13:2,4; Ec 6:9; 7:8,9; Eph 4:27; Jas 1:14

Jezebel.

25; 16:31; 18:4; 19:2; Ge 3:6

Why is thy spirit.

2Sa 13:4; Ne 2:2; Es 4:5

Because.

2; Es 5:9-14; 6:12; Pr 14:30; 1Ti 6:9,10; Jas 4:2-7

I will not give.

3,4

Dost thou now.

1Sa 8:4; 2Sa 13:4; Pr 30:31; Ec 4:1; 8:4; Da 5:19-21

I will give thee.

15,16; Mic 2:1,2; 7:3

she wrote.

2Sa 11:14,15; 2Ch 32:17; Ezr 4:7,8,11; Ne 6:5; Es 3:12-15; 8:8-13

the elders.

Nu 11:16; De 16:18,19; 21:1-9

the nobles.

1; 2Ki 10:1-7,11

Proclaim a fast.

Ge 34:13-17; Isa 58:4; Mt 2:8; 23:14; Lu 20:47; Joh 18:28

on high among. Heb. in the top of.

two men.

De 19:15; Mt 26:59,60; Ac 6:11

sons of Belial.

De 13:13; Jud 19:22

Thou didst blaspheme.Some, with Parkhurst, would render the original, {bairachta elohim wamailech,} "Thou hast blessed the gods and Molech;" a sense, however, which seems extremely forced, and is not acknowledged by any of the ancient versions, though the LXX. and Vulgate render {bairachta} by [eulogese,] {benedixit,} "blessed." It is no unusual thing for a word to have opposite senses.

Ex 22:28; Le 24:15; Mt 26:59-66; Joh 10:33; Ac 6:13

did as Jezebel.

Ex 1:17,21; 23:1,2; Le 19:15; 1Sa 22:17; 23:20; 2Ki 10:6,7

2Ch 24:21; Pr 29:12,26; Da 3:18-25; Ho 5:11; Mic 6:16; Mt 2:12,16

Ac 4:19; 5:29

8-10; Isa 58:4

the men of Belial.

Ex 20:16; De 5:20; 19:16-21; Ps 27:12; 35:11; Pr 6:19; 19:5,9; 25:18

Mal 3:5; Mr 14:56-59

blaspheme God.

Job 1:5,11; 2:9; Mt 9:3; Ac 6:11

the king.

Ec 10:20; Isa 8:21; Am 7:10; Lu 23:2; Joh 19:12; Ac 24:5

they carried him.

Le 24:11-16; Nu 15:35,36; De 13:10; 21:21; 22:21,24; Jos 7:24,25

2Ki 9:26; Ec 4:1; Ac 7:57-59

Naboth is stoned.

2Sa 11:14-24; Ec 5:8; 8:14

Arise.

7; Pr 1:10-16; 4:17

Ahab rose up.

2Sa 1:13-16; 4:9-12; 11:25-27; 23:15-17; Ps 50:18; Isa 33:15

Ob 1:12-14; Ro 1:32; 2Pe 2:15

2Ki 1:15,16; 5:26; Ps 9:12; Isa 26:21

which is in Samaria.

13:32; 2Ch 22:9

Hast thou killed.

Ge 3:11; 4:9,10; 2Sa 12:9; Mic 3:1-4; Hab 2:9,12

In the place.This punishment, on Ahab's humiliation and repentance, was transferred from him to his son Jehoram, (ver. 29,) in whom it was literally accomplished: see the parallel texts.

22:38; Jud 1:7; 2Sa 12:11; 2Ki 9:25,26; Es 7:10; Ps 7:15,16

Ps 9:16; 58:10,11; Mt 7:2

Hast thou found me.

18:17; 22:8; 2Ch 18:7,17; Am 5:10; Mr 12:12; Ga 4:16; Re 11:10

Am 5:10; Mr 12:12; Ga 4:16; Re 11:10

thou hast sold.

25; 2Ki 17:17; Isa 50:1; 52:3; Ro 7:14

to work.

16:30; 2Ki 21:2; 2Ch 33:6; Eph 4:19

Behold.

14:10; Ex 20:5,6; 2Ki 9:7-9; 10:1-7,11-14,17,30

him that pisseth.

1Sa 25:22,34

him that is shut up.

14:10; De 32:36; 2Ki 9:8,9; 14:26

make thine.

15:29; 16:3,11

made Israel to sin.

14:16; 15:30,34; 16:26

Jezebel.

25; 2Ki 9:10,30-37

the dogs.Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, "the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves."

wall. or, ditch.

that dieth.

14:11; 16:4; Isa 14:19; Jer 15:3; Eze 32:4,5; 39:18-20; Re 19:18

But there.

20; 16:30-33; 2Ki 23:25

sell himself.

20; 2Ki 17:17; Isa 50:1; 52:3; Ro 6:19; 7:14

whom Jezebel.

7; 11:1-4; 16:31; 18:4; 19:2; Pr 22:14; Ec 7:26; Mr 6:17-27

Ac 6:12; 14:2

stirred up. or, incited.

very abominably.