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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Kings 21 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Kings 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/20.htm" title="1 Kings 20">◄</a> 1 Kings 21 <a href="../1_kings/22.htm" title="1 Kings 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_kings/21.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Naboth’s Vineyard</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Naboth said to Ahab, “The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew blessed; also verse 13">a</a></sup></span> God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.</p> <p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Condemns Ahab</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And of Jezebel the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> also said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”</p> <p class="heading">Ahab’s Repentance</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> cast out before the people of Israel.)</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Hebrew <i>blessed</i>; also verse 13<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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