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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 should give the in­her­i­tance of my fa­thers unto thee. 4 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. 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spir­it so sad, that thou eat­est no bread? 6 And he said unto her, Be­cause I spake unto Naboth the Jezreel­ite, and said unto him, Give me thy vine­yard for mon­ey; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vine­yard for it: and he an­swered, I will not give thee my vine­yard. 7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now gov­ern the king­dom of Is­rael? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be mer­ry: I will give thee the vine­yard of Naboth the Jezreel­ite. 8 So she wrote let­ters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the let­ters unto the el­ders and to the no­bles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. 9 And she wrote in the let­ters, say­ing, Pro­claim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the peo­ple: 10 And set two men, sons of Be­lial, be­fore him, to bear wit­ness against him, say­ing, Thou didst blas­pheme God and the king. And then car­ry him out, and stone him, that he may die. 11 And the men of his city, even the el­ders and the no­bles who were the in­hab­i­tants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was writ­ten in the let­ters which she had sent unto them. 12 They pro­claimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the peo­ple. 13 And there came in two men, chil­dren of Be­lial, and sat be­fore him: and the men of Be­lial wit­nessed against him, even against Naboth, in the pres­ence of the peo­ple, say­ing, Naboth did blas­pheme God and the king. Then they car­ried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, say­ing, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take pos­ses­sion of the vine­yard of Naboth the Jezreel­ite, which he re­fused to give thee for mon­ey: for Naboth is not alive, but dead. 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vine­yard of Naboth the Jezreel­ite, to take pos­ses­sion of it. 17 And the word of the LORD came to Eli­jah the Tish­bite, say­ing, 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Is­rael, which is in Samaria: be­hold, he is in the vine­yard of Naboth, whith­er he is gone down to pos­sess it. 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also tak­en pos­ses­sion? And thou shalt speak unto him, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. 20 And Ahab said to Eli­jah, Hast thou found me, O mine en­e­my? And he an­swered, I have found thee: be­cause thou hast sold thy­self to work evil in the sight of the LORD. 21 Be­hold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy pos­ter­i­ty, and will cut off from Ahab him that pis­seth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Is­rael, 22 And will make thine house like the house of Jer­oboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahi­jah, for the provo­ca­tion where­with thou hast pro­voked me to anger, and made Is­rael to sin. 23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, say­ing, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. 24 Him that di­eth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that di­eth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell him­self to work wicked­ness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 26 And he did very abom­inably in fol­low­ing idols, ac­cord­ing to all things as did the Amor­ites, whom the LORD cast out be­fore the chil­dren of Is­rael. 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sack­cloth upon his flesh, and fast­ed, and lay in sack­cloth, and went soft­ly. 28 And the word of the LORD came to Eli­jah the Tish­bite, say­ing, 29 Seest thou how Ahab hum­bleth him­self be­fore me? be­cause he hum­bleth him­self be­fore me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.