Naboth
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 he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the
Jezreelite, 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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Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the
blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in
this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him
into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD....
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Naboth (lit. fruits) "the Jezreelite," is the central figure
of a story from the Old Testament. According to the story,
Naboth was the owner of a plot on the eastern slope of the
hill of Jezreel.[1] Described as a small "plat of ground",
the vineyard seems to have been all he possessed and lay
close to the palace of Ahab,[2] who wished to acqu...
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na'-both, na'-both (nabhoth, from nubh, "a sprout";
Nabouthai): The owner of a vineyard contiguous to the palace
of King Ahab. The king desired, by purchase or exchange, to
add the vineyard to his own grounds. Naboth, however, refused
to part on any terms with his paternal inheritance. This
refusal made Ahab "heavy and displeased" (1 Ki 21:4)....
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-(A Jezreelite)
-His vineyard forcibly taken by Ahab; stoned at the
instigation
of Jezebel
1Ki 21:1-19
-His murder avenged
2Ki 9:21-36...
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(fruits), the victim of Ahab and Jezebel, was the owner of
a small vineyard at Jezreel, close to the royal palace of
Shab. 1Ki 21:1,2 (B.C. 897.) It thus became an object of
desire to the king, who offered an equivalent in money or
another vineyard. In exchange for this Naboth, in the
independent spirit of a Jewish landholder, refused: "The
L...
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fruits, "the Jezreelite," was the owner of a portion of
ground
on the eastern slope of the hill of Jezreel (2 Kings
9:25, 26).
This small "plat of ground" seems to have been all
he possessed.
It was a vineyard, and lay "hard by the palace of
Ahab" (1 Kings
21:1, 2), who greatly coveted it. Naboth, however,
refused on
any terms to part wit...
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"fruit" (Gesenius); "preeminence" (Furst). 1 Kings 21; 2 Kings
9:21-26. (See AHAB; ELIJAH.) Septuagint (1 Kings 21:1) omit
"which was in Jezreel," and read instead of "the palace" "the
threshing floor of Ahab king of Samaria." This locates
Naboth's vineyard on the hill of Samaria, close by the
threshing floor, hard by the gate of the city; but...
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