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And Nabuthai the Jezraelite had a vineyard, near the threshingfloor of Achaab king
of Samaria.
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And Achaab spoke to Nabuthai, saying, Give me your vineyard, and I will have it for
a garden of herbs, for it is near my house: and I will give you another vineyard better
than it; or if Gr. it is pleasing to you it please you, I will give you money, the price of this your vineyard, and I will
have it for a garden of herbs.
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And Nabuthai said to Achaab, My God forbid me that I should give you the inheritance
of my fathers.
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And the spirit of Achaab was troubled, and he lay down upon his bed, and covered his
face, and ate no bread.
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And Jezabel his wife went in to him, and spoke to him, saying, Why is your spirit
troubled, and why do you eat no bread?
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And he said to her, Because I spoke to Nabuthai the Jezraelite, saying, Give me your
vineyard for money; or if you will, I will give you another vineyard for it: and he
said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.
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And Jezabel his wife said to him, Do you now thus act the king over Israel? arise,
and eat bread, and be Or, like yourself your own master, and I will give you the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite.
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And she wrote a Gr. book letter in the name of Achaab, and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to
the elders, and to the Possibly nobles is here meant freemen who dwelt with Nabuthai.
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And Gr. had been written it was written in the letters, saying, Keep a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place
among the people.
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And set two men, sons of transgressors, before him, and let them testify against him,
saying, He See Prof. Lee on the word Krb in Job 2:9; Heb. Gram. p. 92 blessed God and the king: and let them lead him forth,
and stone him, and let them
die.
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And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as
Jezabel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to
them.
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And they Gr. called proclaimed a fast, and set Nebuthai in a chief place among the people.
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And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness
against him, saying, You have blessed God and the king. And they led him forth out
of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died.
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And they sent to Jezabel, saying, Nabuthai is stoned, and is dead.
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And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard it, that she said to Achaab, Arise, Gr. inherit take possession of the vineyard of
Nabuthai the Jezraelite, who Gr. sold it not would not sell it to you: for Nebuthai is not alive, for he is dead.
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And it came to pass, when Achaab heard that Nabuthai the Jezraelite was dead, that
he rent his garments, and put on sackcloth. And it came to pass afterward, that Achaab
arose and went down to the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, Gr. to inherit it to take possession of it.
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And the Lord spoke to Eliu the Thesbite, saying,
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Arise, and go down to meet Achaab king of Israel, who is in Samaria, for he is in
the vineyard of Nabuthai, for he has gone down there to take possession of it.
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And you shall speak to him, saying, Gr. these things Thus says the Lord, Seeing that as you have slain and taken possession,
therefore
thus says the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood
of Nabuthai, there shall the dogs lick your blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves
in your blood.
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And Achaab said to Eliu, Have you found me, mine enemy? and he said, I have found
you: because you have Gr. foolishly, or in vain wickedly sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him
to anger;
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behold, I bring Gr. evils evil upon you: and I will kindle a fire after you, and I will utterly destroy every
male of Achaab, and him whom is shut up and him whom is left in Israel.
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And I will Gr. give make your house as the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and as the house of Baasa
son of Achia, because of the provocations wherewith you have provoked me, and caused
Israel to sin.
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And the Lord Or, to Jezabel spoke of Jezabel, saying, The dogs shall devour her Or, by within the fortification of Jezrael.
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Him whom is dead of Achaab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him whom is dead of
him in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.
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But Achaab did wickedly, Gr. who sold, etc. in that he sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as
his
wife Jezabel led him astray.
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And he did very abominably in following after the abominations, according to all that
the Amorite did, whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.
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And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow before Gr. the face, as it were, of the Lord the Lord, and he both
went weeping, and rent his garment, and girt sackcloth upon
his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Nabuthai the
Jezraelite, and went his way.
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And the word of the Lord came by the hand of his servant Eliu concerning Achaab, and
the Lord said,
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Have you seen how Achaab has been pricked to the heart before me? I will not bring
on the evil in his days, but in his son’s days will I bring on the evil.