1 Kings 21:14 - Revised Standard Version Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead. American Standard Version (1901) Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. Common English Bible It was then reported to Jezebel, “Naboth was stoned. He’s dead.” Catholic Public Domain Version And they sent to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned, and he has died." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead. |
And the two base fellows came in and sat opposite him; and the base fellows 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.
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.”
When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king's sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”
If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.