The Koine Bible

And one vineyard was to Naboth the Jezreelite by the salt place of Ahab king of Samaria.

And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, and it shall be for me as a garden of vegetables, because it is near my house; and I will give you another vineyard, good beyond it; but if it is pleasing before you, I will give you silver as payment for this vineyard of yours. And it shall be for me as a garden of vegetables.

And Naboth said to Ahab, Far be it from my God to give the inheritance of my fathers to you.

And the spirit of Ahab became troubled, and he lay upon his bed and covered his face, and he did not eat bread.

And Jezebel his wife came in to him and spoke to him, Why is your spirit troubled, and are you not eating bread?

And he said to her, saying, I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, saying, Give me your vineyard for silver, or if you wish, I will give you another vineyard in place of it. And he said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.

And Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now thus act as king over Israel? Rise, eat bread, and become yourself; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

And he wrote a letter in the name of Ahab and sealed it with his seal and sent the letter to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling with Naboth

And it had been written in the books, saying, Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the people.

And set two men, sons of transgressors, opposite him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, He blessed God and the king; and let them bring him out and stone him, and let him die.

And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who dwelt in his city, did according to what Jezabel had sent to them, according as it is written in the letters which she sent to them.

They proclaimed a fast, and they seated Nabouthai at the head of the people.

And two men, sons of lawless men, came and sat opposite him and bore witness against him, saying, You have blessed God and the king. And they led him outside the city and stoned him with stones, and he died.

And they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.

And it happened, when Jezebel heard, that she said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he did not give you for silver, because Naboth is not alive, because he has died.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth the Jezreelite had died, that he tore his garments and put sackcloth around himself, and it came to pass after these things that Ahab arose and went down into the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to inherit it.

And the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, saying

Rise and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, the one in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, because he has gone down there to take possession of it.

And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord: As you murdered and inherited, therefore thus says the Lord: In every place where the pigs and the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there the dogs shall lick up your blood, and the prostitutes shall wash in your blood.

And Ahab said to Heliou, If you have found me, my enemy? And he said, I have found you, because you have sold yourself in vain to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.

Thus says the Lord: behold, I am bringing evils upon you, and I will burn after you, and I will utterly destroy from Ahab him who urinates against the wall, and him who is shut up and him who is forsaken in Israel

And I will give your house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and as the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because of the provocations by which you provoked and caused Israel to sin.

And to Jezebel the Lord spoke, saying, The dogs shall devour her in the rampart of Jezreel.

The dead of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and his dead in the field the birds of the sky shall eat.

Only in vain, Ahab, as he was sold to do the evil before the Lord, as Jezebel his wife incited him.

And he abhorred greatly to walk after the abominations, according to all that the Amorrite did, whom the Lord destroyed from before the sons of Israel.

And because of the word, as Ahab was pierced from before the Lord, he went along weeping, and he tore his tunic and girded sackcloth on his body and fasted and wrapped himself in sackcloth on the day on which he struck Naboth the Jezreelite

And the word of the Lord came by the hand of his servant Eliu concerning Ahab, and the Lord said

Have you seen how Ahab was pierced before me? I will not bring the evil in his days, but in the days of his son I will bring the evil.