1 Kings 21:4

And the king of Israel answered and said, As thou hast said, my lord, O king, I am thine, and all mine also.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite 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.

In Context

3Thy silver and thy gold are mine, and thy wives and thy children are mine.

5And the messengers came again, and said, Thus says the son of Hadad, I sent to thee, saying, Thou shalt give me thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy children.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Depart quickly to your lord; God does not permit me to go with you.

2 Samuel 13:4And he said to him, What ails thee that thou art thus weak, O son of the king, morning by morning? wilt thou not tell me? and Amnon said, I love Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.

1 Kings 21:3Thy silver and thy gold are mine, and thy wives and thy children are mine.

Job 5:2For wrath destroys the foolish one, 1 And envy slays him that has gone astray. 1

Ecclesiastes 7:8The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: 1 The patient is better than the high-minded. 1

Jonah 4:1But Jonah was very deeply grieved, and he was confounded.

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 →

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