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naboth

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Naboth 
  fruits,  "the  Jezreelite,"  was  the  owner  of  a  portion  of  ground 
  on  the  eastern  slope  of  the  hill  of  Jezreel  (2  Kings  9:25,  26). 
  This  small  "plat  of  ground"  seems  to  have  been  all  he  possessed. 
  It  was  a  vineyard,  and  lay  "hard  by  the  palace  of  Ahab"  (1  Kings 
  21:1,  2),  who  greatly  coveted  it  Naboth,  however,  refused  on 
  any  terms  to  part  with  it  to  the  king.  He  had  inherited  it  from 
  his  fathers,  and  no  Israelite  could  lawfully  sell  his  property 
  (Lev.  25:23).  Jezebel,  Ahab's  wife,  was  grievously  offended  at 
  Naboth's  refusal  to  part  with  his  vineyard.  By  a  crafty  and 
  cruel  plot  she  compassed  his  death.  His  sons  also  shared  his 
  fate  (2  Kings  9:26;  1  Kings  21:19).  She  then  came  to  Ahab  and 
  said  "Arise,  take  possession  of  the  vineyard;  for  Naboth  is  not 
  alive,  but  dead."  Ahab  arose  and  went  forth  into  the  garden 
  which  had  so  treacherously  and  cruelly  been  acquired,  seemingly 
  enjoying  his  new  possession,  when  lo  Elijah  suddenly  appeared 
  before  him  and  pronounced  against  him  a  fearful  doom  (1  Kings 
  21:17-24).  Jehu  and  Bidcar  were  with  Ahab  at  this  time,  and  so 
  deeply  were  the  words  of  Elijah  imprinted  on  Jehu's  memory  that 
  many  years  afterwards  he  refers  to  them  (2  Kings  9:26),  and  he 
  was  the  chief  instrument  in  inflicting  this  sentence  on  Ahab  and 
  Jezebel  and  all  their  house  (9:30-37).  The  house  of  Ahab  was 
  extinguished  by  him  Not  one  of  all  his  great  men  and  his 
  kinsfolk  and  his  priests  did  Jehu  spare  (10:11). 
 
  Ahab  humbled  himself  at  Elijah's  words  (1  Kings  21:28,  29), 
  and  therefore  the  prophecy  was  fulfilled  not  in  his  fate  but  in 
  that  of  his  son  Joram  (2  Kings  9:25). 
 
  The  history  of  Naboth,  compared  with  that  of  Ahab  and  Jezebel, 
  furnishes  a  remarkable  illustration  of  the  law  of  a  retributive 
  providence,  a  law  which  runs  through  all  history  (comp.  Ps 
  109:17,  18). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Naboth,  words  prophecies




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