Naboth
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 Naboth
    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 with it to the king. He had inherited it from
    his fathers, and no Israelite could lawfully sell his property
    (Lev. 25:23). Jezebel, Ahab's wife, was grievously offended at
    Naboth's refusal to part with his vineyard. By a crafty and
    cruel plot she compassed his death. His sons also shared his
    fate (2 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 21:19). She then came to Ahab and
    said, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard; for Naboth is not
    alive, but dead." Ahab arose and went forth into the garden
    which had so treacherously and cruelly been acquired, seemingly
    enjoying his new possession, when, lo, Elijah suddenly appeared
    before him and pronounced against him a fearful doom (1 Kings
    21:17-24). Jehu and Bidcar were with Ahab at this time, and so
    deeply were the words of Elijah imprinted on Jehu's memory that
    many years afterwards he refers to them (2 Kings 9:26), and he
    was the chief instrument in inflicting this sentence on Ahab and
    Jezebel and all their house (9:30-37). The house of Ahab was
    extinguished by him. Not one of all his great men and his
    kinsfolk and his priests did Jehu spare (10:11).
      Ahab humbled himself at Elijah's words (1 Kings 21:28, 29),
    and therefore the prophecy was fulfilled not in his fate but in
    that of his son Joram (2 Kings 9:25).
      The history of Naboth, compared with that of Ahab and Jezebel,
    furnishes a remarkable illustration of the law of a retributive
    providence, a law which runs through all history (comp. Ps.
    109:17, 18).
 Naboth, words; prophecies