1 Kings 21:4
and Ahab comes to his house, sulky and angry, because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite has spoken to him when he says, “I do not give the inheritance of my fathers to you,” and he lies down on his bed, and turns around his face, and has not eaten bread.
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Numbers 22:13And Balaam rises in the morning and says to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, for YHWH is refusing to permit me to go with you”;
2 Samuel 13:4and says to him, “Why [are] you thus lean, O king’s son, morning by morning? Do you not declare [it] to me?” And Amnon says to him, “Tamar—sister of my brother Absalom—I am loving.”
1 Kings 21:3And Naboth says to Ahab, “Far be it from me, by YHWH, my giving the inheritance of my fathers to you”;
Job 5:2For provocation slays the perverse, || And envy puts to death the simple,
Ecclesiastes 7:8Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning, || Better [is] the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.
Jonah 4:1And it is grievous to Jonah—a great evil—and he is displeased at it;
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 21:2-5
Naboth's Vineyard Refused to Ahab. ( b. c. 899.) 1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 And Ahab 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. 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I… Read the whole commentary →