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1 Kings 21:1

And it came to pass after these things, that Navot the Yizre'eli had a kerem (vineyard), which was in Yizre'el (Jezreel), beside the heikhal (palace) Ach'av Melech Shomron.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2And Ach'av spoke unto Navot, saying, Give me thy kerem (vineyard), that I may have it for an herb gan (garden), because it is karov (near) unto my Bais; and I will give thee in exchange for it a tov kerem (better vineyard) than it; or, if it seem tov in thine eyes, I will give thee the worth of it in kesef.

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Cross References

Joshua 19:18And their territory was toward Yizre'el, and Kesulot, and Shunem,

1 Samuel 29:1Now the Pelishtim gathered together all their machanot to Aphek; and Yisroel encamped by an ayin (spring) which is in Yizre'el.

1 Kings 20:35And a certain man of the Bnei HaNevi'im said unto his re'a (neighbor) in the Devar Hashem, Strike me, now. The ish refused to strike him.

Ezra 9:13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that Thou Eloheinu hast punished us less than avoneinu deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this,

Jeremiah 5:3Hashem, are not Thine eyes upon emunah? 1 Thou hast struck them, but they felt no anguish; 1 Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to accept musar; + 5:3 cf Isa 53:5 1 they have made their faces harder than stone; 1 they have refused to make teshuvah. 1

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 21:1

Ahab is still the unhappy subject of the sacred history; from the great affairs of his camp and kingdom this chapter leads us into his garden, and gives us an account of some ill things (and ill indeed they proved to him) relating to his domestic affairs. I. Ahab is sick for Naboth's vineyard, ver. 1-4 . II. Naboth dies by Jezebel's plot, that the vineyard may escheat to Ahab, ver. 5-14 . III. Ahab goes to take possession, ver. 15-16 . IV. Elijah meets him, and denounces the judgments of God against him for his… Read the whole commentary →

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