CLV(i)
1 And it comes to pass, after these things, a vineyard has been to Naboth the Jezreelite, that [is] in Jezreel, near the palace of Ahab king of Samaria,
2 and Ahab speaks unto Naboth, saying, `Give to me your vineyard, and it is to me for a garden of green herbs, for it [is] near by my house, and I give to you in its stead a better vineyard than it; if good in your eyes, I give to you silver--its price..
3 And Naboth said unto Ahab, `Far be it from me, by Yahweh, my giving the inheritance of my fathers to you;.
4 and Ahab comes in unto his house, sulky and wroth, because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite has spoken unto him when he said, `I do not give to you the inheritance of my fathers,' and he lies down on his bed, and turns round his face, and has not eaten bread.
5 And Jezebel his wife comes in unto him, and speaks unto him, `What [is] this? --your spirit sulky, and you are not eating bread!.
6 And he said unto her, `Because I speak unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and say to him, Give to me your vineyard for money, or if you desire, I give to you a vineyard in its stead; and he said, I do not give to you my vineyard..
7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, `You now do execute rule over Israel! rise, eat bread, and let your heart be glad, --I do give to you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite..
8 And she writes letters in the name of Ahab, and seals with his seal, and sends the letters unto the elders, and unto the freemen, who are in his city, those dwelling with Naboth,
9 and she writes in the letters, saying, `Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people,
10 and cause two men--sons of worthlessness--to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, You have blessed Elohim and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dies..
11 And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel has sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them,
12 they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people,
13 and two men--sons of worthlessness--come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed Elohim and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dies;"
14 and they send unto Jezebel, saying, `Naboth was stoned, and is dead..
15 And it comes to pass, at Jezebel's hearing that Naboth has been stoned, and is dead, that Jezebel said unto Ahab, `Rise, possess the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, that he refused to give to you for money, for Naboth is not alive but dead..
16 And it comes to pass, at Ahab's hearing that Naboth is dead, that Ahab rises to go down unto the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to possess it.
17 And the word of Yahweh is unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
18 `Rise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who [is] in Samaria, --lo, in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he has gone down to possess it,
19 and you have spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Yahweh, Have you murdered, and also possessed? and you have spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Yahweh, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick your blood, even your..
20 And Ahab said unto Elijah, `Have you found me, O mine enemy?' and he said, `I have found--because of your selling yourself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh;"
21 lo, I am bringing in unto you evil, and have taken away your posterity, and cut off to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in Israel,
22 and given up your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked [Me], and do cause Israel to sin.
23 `And also of Jezebel has Yahweh spoken, saying, The dogs do eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel;"
24 him who dies of Ahab in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dies in a field do fowl of the heavens eat;"
25 surely there has none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife has moved,
26 and he does very abominably to go after the idols, according to all that the Amorite did whom Yahweh dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel..
27 And it comes to pass, at Ahab's hearing these words, that he rends his garments, and puts sackcloth on his flesh, and fasts, and lies in sackcloth, and goes gently.
28 And the word of Yahweh is unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
29 `Have you seen that Ahab has been humbled before Me? because that he has been humbled before Me, I bring not in the evil in his days; in the days of his son I bring in the evil on his house..