1 Kings 21:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

1 KINGS CHAPTER 21 Ahab coveteth to buy Naboth's vineyard; which is denied him, and he is grieved, 1 Kings 21:1-4. Jezebel writeth letters against Naboth; he is condemned of blasphemy, and stoned, 1 Kings 21:5-14. Ahab possesseth the vineyard, 1 Kings 21:15,16. Elijah denounceth judgment against Ahab and Jezebel, 1 Kings 21:17-26. He repenting, God deferreth the judgment, 1 Kings 21:27-29. In Jezreel; where one of Ahab's palaces was, as the other was in Samaria.

1 Kings 21:1

1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.