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And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating food? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>So 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 pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in its place. But he said, I will not give you my vineyard. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>So she wrote letters in Ahabs name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Now she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You cursed God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jezebels Plot</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent <i>word</i> to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the two worthless men came in and sat before him; and the worthless men testified against him, even against Naboth, before 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" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Then they sent <i>word</i> to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>When 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" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-18.htm" target="_top"><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 down to take possession of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, Have you murdered and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found <i>you,</i> because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, both bond and free in Israel; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-22.htm" target="_top"><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, because of the provocation with which you have provoked <i>Me</i> to anger, and <i>because</i> you have made Israel sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Of Jezebel also has the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoken, saying, The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, because Jezebel his wife incited him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the L<font size="1">ORD</font> cast out before the sons of Israel.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Then the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/21-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? 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