King Ahab’s palace [227] was in the city of Samaria. Near the palace there was a field of grapes. A man named Naboth owned this field. He was from Jezreel.
1 Kings 21:16 - Easy To Read Version So Ahab went to the field of grapes and took it for his own. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When Ahab heard that, he arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. Common English Bible When Ahab heard that Naboth had died, he got up and went down to Naboth’s vineyard to take ownership of it. Catholic Public Domain Version And when Ahab had heard this, namely, that Naboth was dead, he rose up and descended to the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, so that he might take possession of it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he arose, and went down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite, to take possession of it. |
King Ahab’s palace [227] was in the city of Samaria. Near the palace there was a field of grapes. A man named Naboth owned this field. He was from Jezreel.
When Jezebel heard this, she said to Ahab, “Naboth is dead. Now you can go and take the field that you wanted.”
At this time the Lord spoke to Elijah. (Elijah was the prophet from Tishbe.) {The Lord said,}
When Gehazi came to the hill, he took these things from the servants. Gehazi sent the servants away, and they left. Then Gehazi hid those things in the house.
You see a thief,\par and you run to join him.\par You jump into bed with people\par doing the sin of adultery.\par
Good, honest people that refuse to hurt others for money—\{they will live through that fire\}. Those people refuse to take bribes. They refuse to listen to plans to murder other people. They refuse to look at plans for doing bad things.
Those people know God’s law. They know God’s law says that people who live like that should die. But they continue to do those wrong things. And they say that people who do those things are doing right.
These false teachers left the right way and went the wrong way. They followed the same way that Balaam went. Balaam was the son of Beor. He loved being paid for doing wrong.