And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
Ver. 3. The Lord forbid it me.] The Lord had indeed forbidden it him. Lev 25:23 Numbers 36:7 Eze 46:18 And hence his loathness; for he feared God in that corrupt time, and this made him a martyr; and for this his blood cried the louder against Ahab and Jezebel.