Introduction
Ahab covets the vineyard of Naboth, and wishes to have it either by purchase or exchange, 1 Kings 21:1 , 1 Kings 21:2 . Naboth refuses to alienate it on any account, because it was his inheritance from his fathers, 1 Kings 21:3 . Ahab becomes disconsolate, takes to his bed, and refuses to eat, 1 Kings 21:4 . Jezebel, finding out the cause, promises to give him the vineyard, 1 Kings 21:5-7 . She writes to the nobles of Jezreel to proclaim a fast, to accuse Naboth of blasphemy, carry him out, and stone him to death; which is accordingly done, 1 Kings 21:8-14 . She then tells Ahab to go and take possession of the vineyard; he goes, and is met by Elijah, who denounces on him the heaviest judgments, 1 Kings 21:15-24 . Ahab's abominable character, 1 Kings 21:25 , 1 Kings 21:26 . He humbles himself; and God promises not to bring the threatened public calamities in his days, but in the days of his son, 1 Kings 21:27-29 .
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