1 Kings 21:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They sent to Jezebel By whom they were not ignorant the affairs of the kingdom were in a great measure managed, and this design contrived: saying, Naboth is stoned Which they knew would be an agreeable piece of news to her who had imbrued her hands in the blood of so many of the Lord's prophets. Here let us observe, that as obsequious as the elders of Jezreel were to Jezebel's orders, which she sent from Samaria for the murder of Naboth, so obsequious were the elders of Samaria afterward to Jehu's orders, which he sent from Jezreel, for the murder of Ahab's seventy sons, only that was not done by course of lay. “Those tyrants,” says Henry, “that, by their wicked orders, debauch the consciences of their inferior magistrates, may perhaps find at last the wheel return upon them; and that those, who will not stick to do one cruel thing for them, will be as ready, when occasion offers, to do another cruel thing against them.”