1Kings:21:2-29
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And Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
spake unto Naboth ,
saying ,
Give me thy vineyard ,
that I may have it for a garden of herbs ,
because it is near unto my house :
and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it ;
or ,
if it seem good to thee ,
I will give thee the worth of it in money .
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And Naboth said to Ahab #
Ach #
ab #,
The LORD forbid it me ,
that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee .
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And Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite Yizr @#
e #
liy #
had spoken to him :
for he had said ,
I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers .
And he laid him down upon his bed ,
and turned away his face ,
and would eat no bread .
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But Jezebel his wife came to him ,
and said unto him ,
Why is thy spirit so sad ,
that thou eatest no bread ?
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And he said unto her ,
Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite Yizr @#
e #
liy #,
and said unto him ,
Give me thy vineyard for money ;
or else ,
if it please thee ,
I will give thee another vineyard for it :
and he answered ,
I will not give thee my vineyard .
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And Jezebel his wife said unto him ,
Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel Yisra #
el #?
arise ,
and eat bread ,
and let thine heart be merry :
I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite Yizr @#
e #
liy #.
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So she wrote letters in Ahabs #
Ach #
ab #
name ,
and sealed them with his seal ,
and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city ,
dwelling with Naboth .
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And she wrote in the letters ,
saying ,
Proclaim a fast ,
and set Naboth on high among the people :
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And set two men ,
sons of Belial b @
liya #
al #,
before him ,
to bear witness against him ,
saying ,
Thou didst blaspheme God and the king .
And then carry him out ,
and stone him ,
that he may die .
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And the men of his city ,
even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city ,
did as Jezebel had sent unto them ,
and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them .
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They proclaimed a fast ,
and set Naboth on high among the people .
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And there came in two men ,
children of Belial b @
liya #
al #,
and sat before him :
and the men of Belial witnessed against him ,
even against Naboth ,
in the presence of the people ,
saying ,
Naboth did blaspheme God and the king .
Then they carried him forth out of the city ,
and stoned him with stones ,
that he died .
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Then they sent to Jezebel ,
saying ,
Naboth is stoned ,
and is dead .
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And it came to pass ,
when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned ,
and was dead ,
that Jezebel said to Ahab #
Ach #
ab #,
Arise ,
take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite Yizr @#
e #
liy #,
which he refused to give thee for money :
for Naboth is not alive ,
but dead .
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And it came to pass ,
when Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
heard that Naboth was dead ,
that Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite Yizr @#
e #
liy #,
to take possession of it .
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And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite ,
saying ,
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Arise ,
go down to meet Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
king of Israel Yisra #
el #,
which is in Samaria :
behold ,
he is in the vineyard of Naboth ,
whither he is gone down to possess it .
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And thou shalt speak unto him ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Hast thou killed ,
and also taken possession ?
And thou shalt speak unto him ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood ,
even thine .
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And Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
said to Elijah ,
Hast thou found me ,
O mine enemy ?
And he answered ,
I have found thee :
because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD .
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Behold ,
I will bring evil upon thee ,
and will take away thy posterity ,
and will cut off from Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
him that pisseth against the wall ,
and him that is shut up and left in Israel Yisra #
el #,
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And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah ,
for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger ,
and made Israel to sin .
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And of Jezebel also spake the LORD ,
saying ,
The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel Yizr @#
e #
l #.
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Him that dieth of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
in the city the dogs shall eat ;
and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat .
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But there was none like unto Ahab #
Ach #
ab #,
which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD ,
whom Jezebel his wife stirred up .
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And he did very abominably in following idols ,
according to all things as did the Amorites ,
whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And it came to pass ,
when Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
heard those words ,
that he rent his clothes ,
and put sackcloth upon his flesh ,
and fasted ,
and lay in sackcloth ,
and went softly .
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And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite ,
saying ,
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Seest thou how Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
humbleth himself before me ?
because he humbleth himself before me ,
I will not bring the evil in his days :
but in his sons days will I bring the evil upon his house .