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King Ahab who took Naboth's vineyard

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[1 Kings 21:15-16]

As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab,

"Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused

to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead." When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead,

he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth's vineyard.

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The king of Israel, King of the Most Wicked, called the king of Ahab, with his wife Jezebel, engaged in all kinds of wickedness and greatly angered God.

During his evil deeds, he took Naboth's vineyard with his power.

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Near the palace of King Ahab, there was a large vineyard owned by a man named Naboth.

He wanted to buy this vineyard and make a big garden.

So he went and told Naboth.

“Give me your vineyard. I would like to grow that vineyard into my vegetable garden.

Instead, I will pay for it with a better vineyard or money.”

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King Ahab's offer seemed to him to be profitable, but Naboth rejected King Ahab's offer

“This vineyard is inherited by our forefathers. If I sell to someone else what I have

inherited from my ancestors, I will be punished severely by God, and I can not sell this

vineyard to the king.”

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The reason Naboth refused the king's offer was because of God's command to

“The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine...” (Leviticus 25:23).

Naboth was more afraid of the word of God than the words of the king.

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Jezebel, the queen who heard this news, told her husband Ahab that she would take

Naboth's vineyard. And she devised a lie to take Naboth's vineyard.

Jezebel wrote a few letters to the elders of the area where Naboth lived and stamped

the king's seal.

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The elders and nobles who read and received the letter were surprised. It was stated in the

letter that Naboth made a false witness who heard that he had cursed the king and God,

and arrested and killed him. elders and nobles who were afraid of King Ahab took part

in killing Naboth at the request of Jezebel.

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Elders and nobles proclaim that no one should eat food in order for the people to feel like

something has happened.

and they arrested Naboth and put him in the place where the sinners sat down.

Naboth has been arrested for no reason at all.

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Soon they placed two bullies on the other side of Naboth who had already bribed.

The two bullies testified that they had heard Naboth speaking a curse on God and the king.

All this was a plan that Jezebel invented.

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But the people who did not know this bad plan knew that Naboth was guilty of blasphemy

against God and the king, and took him and dragged him out of the city.

They killed Naboth in stone, according to the law of stoning and killing a man who

blasphemed the name of God. Naboth was innocently killed by Jezebel's host.

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When Jezebel heard that Naboth was dead, he went to King Ahab and told him to go down

now to occupy the vineyard because Naboth died. Ahab went to Naboth's vineyard with joy.

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When Ahab was in the vineyard of Naboth, Elijah the prophet of God appeared before him.

God sent the prophet Elijah to proclaim the word of fearful judgment to Ahab king

who killed Naboth.

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The prophet Elijah prophesied that Ahab and Jezebel, who had done evil to Naboth, would

be miserably killed by God's judgment. “If a man of the house of Ahab dies in the city,

the dogs will eat it; if they die in the fields, the birds of the air will eat it.”

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This word of God was fulfilled in the near future, and King Ahab died miserably

in the battle with an arrow.

The Bible speaks of King Ahab's death.

“They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),* and the

dogs licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared.” (1Kg 22:37-38, NIV)

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The prophecy of Jezebel was also fulfilled.

Jezebel was thrown from a high place and was burdened with a terrible end.

The Bible says: “This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.”(2Kg 9:36, NIV)

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Naboth was unjustly dead to the wicked in this world. But God gave Naboth, who feared God,

an eternal life of grace unmatched by this world. also, Ahab and Jezebel,

who ignored God and continued to do evil, were judged and brought to a disastrous end.

Today we must be a person who, like Naboth, cares deeply into the teachings of sermons

and respects God's Word in all temptations and difficulties.

so I hope that all of my friends will please God.

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