1 Kings 21:4

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So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:43 : 43 Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.
  • Jas 1:14 : 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
  • Gen 4:5-8 : 5 But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad. 6 And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad? 7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master. 8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.
  • Num 22:13-14 : 13 In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs of Balak, Go back to your land, for the Lord will not let me go with you. 14 So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said, Balaam will not come with us.
  • 2 Sam 13:2 : 2 And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
  • 2 Sam 13:4 : 4 And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
  • 1 Kgs 21:3 : 3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
  • Eccl 6:9 : 9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
  • Eccl 7:8-9 : 8 The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride. 9 Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
  • Isa 57:20-21 : 20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste. 21 There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
  • Jonah 4:1 : 1 But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.
  • Jonah 4:9 : 9 And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork. 12 A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
  • Eph 4:27 : 27 And do not give way to the Evil One.

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  • 1 Kgs 21:5-9
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    5 But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?

    6 And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.

    7 Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.

    8 So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.

    9 And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;

  • 1 Kgs 21:1-3
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    1 Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

    2 And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.

    3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 21:11-25
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    11 So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.

    12 They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.

    13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.

    14 And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.

    15 Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.

    16 So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.

    17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

    18 Go down to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria; see, he is in the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, where he has gone to take it as his heritage.

    19 Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

    20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

    21 See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;

    22 And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

    23 And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.

    24 Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

    25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27-29
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    27 Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

    28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

    29 Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

  • 2 Kgs 9:25-26
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    25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain, Take him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for is not that day in your memory when you and I together on our horses were going after Ahab, his father, and the Lord put this fate on him, saying:

    26 I saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday; and I will give you full payment in this field, says the Lord? So now, take him and put him in this field, as the Lord said.

  • 1 Kgs 22:40
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    40 So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 1 Sam 28:23
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    23 But he would not, saying, I have no desire for food. But his servants, together with the woman, made him take food, and he gave way to them. So he got up from the earth, and took his seat on the bed.

  • 1 Kgs 20:43
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    43 Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 9:36-37
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    36 So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;

    37 And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.

  • 2 Kgs 9:9-10
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    9 I will make the family of Ahab like that of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and Baasha, the son of Ahijah.

    10 And Jezebel will become food for the dogs in the heritage of Jezreel, and there will be no one to put her body into the earth. Then, opening the door, he went in flight.

  • 1 Kgs 18:42
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    42 So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.

  • 1 Kgs 13:21-22
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    21 And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,

    22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 9:7
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    7 You are to see that the family of Ahab your master is cut off, so that I may take from Jezebel payment for the blood of my servants the prophets, and for the blood of all the servants of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 12:17
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    17 And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

  • 1 Kgs 16:31
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    31 And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
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    9 And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

  • 1 Kgs 20:7
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    7 Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said, Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man: he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.

  • Job 33:20
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    20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

  • 1 Kgs 16:28
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    28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 19:1
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    1 Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
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    4 Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
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    17 Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

  • 1 Kgs 13:8
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    8 But the man of God said to the king, Even if you gave me half of all you have, I would not go in with you, and I would not take food or a drink of water in this place;

  • 2 Kgs 9:21
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    21 Then Joram said, Make ready. So they made his carriage ready; and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their carriages for the purpose of meeting Jehu; and they came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.