These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Kings 21
Tanakh 29 verses
- 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 , of .
- 2 And spoke 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.’
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And Naboth said to : ‘The forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.’
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- 4 And came into his house sullen and displeased because of the 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 , and would eat no bread.
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But his wife came to him, and said unto him: ‘Why is thy so sullen, that thou eatest no bread?’
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And he said unto her: ‘Because I spoke 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.’
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- 7 And his wife said unto him: ‘Dost thou now govern the of ? arise, and eat bread, and let thy be merry; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.’
- 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s , and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.
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And she wrote in the letters, saying: ‘Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people;
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- 10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying: Thou didst and the . And then carry him out, and stone him, that he die.’
- 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as had sent unto them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
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They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.
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And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him; and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying: ‘Naboth did and the .’ Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
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2 Kings 9:26 Mark 14:56-59 Exodus 20:16 Luke 23:2 Proverbs 6:19 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Joshua 7:24-25 Proverbs 19:9 Amos 7:10 John 19:12 Deuteronomy 22:24 Numbers 15:35-36 Job 2:9 Deuteronomy 13:10 Job 1:5 Deuteronomy 22:21 Matthew 9:3 Leviticus 24:11-16 Isaiah 8:21 Acts 7:57-59 Acts 6:11 Deuteronomy 21:21 Acts 24:5 Psalm 35:11 Job 1:11 Deuteronomy 5:20 Deuteronomy 19:16-21 Proverbs 25:18 Proverbs 19:5 Malachi 3:5 Psalm 27:12 Ecclesiastes 10:20 -
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Then they sent to , saying: ‘Naboth is stoned, and is dead.’
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And it came to pass, when heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that said to : ‘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.’
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- 16 And it came to pass, when heard that Naboth was dead, that rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
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And the of came to the Tishbite, saying:
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Arise, go down to meet of , who dwelleth in ; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it.
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- 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying: Thus saith : Hast thou killed, and also taken possessions? and thou shalt speak unto him, saying: Thus saith : In the place where dogs licked the of Naboth shall dogs lick thy , even thine.’
- 20 And said to : ‘Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?’ And he answered: ‘I have found thee; because thou hast given thyself over to do that which is evil in the sight of .
- 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away, and will cut off from every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in .
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And I will make thy house like the house of the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked Me, and hast made to sin.
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And of also spoke , saying: The dogs shall eat in the moat of Jezreel.
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Him that dieth of in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.’
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- 25 But there was none like unto , who did give himself over to do that which was evil in the sight of , whom his wife stirred up.
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And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom cast out before the children of .
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2 Kings 21:11 Genesis 15:16 Leviticus 18:25-30 Deuteronomy 12:31 2 Chronicles 36:14 2 Kings 16:3 Revelation 21:8 2 Chronicles 33:9 1 Kings 15:12 2 Chronicles 33:2 2 Kings 21:2 Ezekiel 18:12 2 Chronicles 15:8 Ezekiel 16:47 Leviticus 20:22-23 2 Kings 17:12 1 Peter 4:3 Psalm 106:35-39 Isaiah 65:4 Ezra 9:11-14 Jeremiah 16:18 Jeremiah 44:4 - 27 And it came to pass, when heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his , and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softy.
- 28 And the of came to the Tishbite, saying:
- 29 Seest thou how 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.’