Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, so that I may have it as a vegetable garden, since it is right next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange; or, if you prefer, I will pay you the price in money.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבר
222
אחאב
12
אלנבותלאמרתנהלי
1255
אתכרמך
681
ויהילי
71
לגןירק
393
כי
30
הוא
12
קרוב
308
אצל
121
ביתי
422
ואתנה
462
לך
50
תחתיו
824
כרם
260
טוב
17
ממנו
136
אם
41
טוב
17
בעיניך
162
אתנהלך
506
כסף
160
מחיר
258
זה
12
I Kings 21:3
Gematria: 3149
ויאמרנבותאלאחאבחלילהלימיהוהמתתיאתנחלתאבתילך
But Naboth replied, “GOD forbid that I should give up to you what I have inherited from my fathers!”
Ahab went home dispirited and sullen because of the answer that Naboth the Jezreelite had given him: “I will not give up to you what I have inherited from my fathers!” He lay down on his bed and turned away his face, and he would not eat.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבא
19
אחאב
12
אלביתו
449
סר
260
וזעף
163
עלהדבר
311
אשרדבר
707
אליו
47
נבות
458
היזרעאלי
333
ויאמר
257
לאאתן
482
לך
50
אתנחלת
889
אבותי
419
וישכב
338
עלמטתו
555
ויסב
78
אתפניו
547
ולאאכל
88
לחם
78
I Kings 21:5
Gematria: 2644
ותבאאליואיזבלאשתוותדבראליומהזהרוחךסרהואינךאכללחם
His wife Jezebel came to him and asked him, “Why are you so dispirited that you won’t eat?”
So he told her, “I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and proposed to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard for money, or if you prefer, I’ll give you another vineyard in exchange’; but he answered, ‘I will not give my vineyard to you.’”
His wife Jezebel said to him, “Now is the time to show yourself king over Israel. Rise and eat something, and be cheerful; I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived in the same town with Naboth.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותכתב
828
ספרים
390
בשם
342
אחאב
12
ותחתם
854
בחתמו
456
ותשלח
744
הספרים
395
ספרים
390
אלהזקנים
243
ואלהחרים
300
אשר
501
בעירו
288
הישבים
367
אתנבות
859
I Kings 21:9
Gematria: 3740
ותכתבבספריםלאמרקראוצוםוהשיבואתנבותבראשהעם
In the letters she wrote as follows: “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the front of the assembly.
The people of his town—the elders and nobles who lived in his town—did as Jezebel had instructed them, just as was written in the letters she had sent them:
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעשו
392
אנשי
361
עירו
286
הזקנים
212
והחרים
269
אשר
501
הישבים
367
בעירו
288
כאשר
521
שלחה
343
אליהם
86
איזבל
50
כאשר
521
כתוב
428
בספרים
392
אשר
501
שלחה
343
אליהם
86
I Kings 21:12
Gematria: 2249
קראוצוםוהשיבואתנבותבראשהעם
They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the front of the assembly.
Then the two scoundrels came and sat down opposite him; and those scoundrels testified against Naboth publicly as follows: “Naboth has reviled God and king.” Then theyathey I.e., the leaders of Naboth’s town (see v. 11), the two scoundrels, and perhaps others; cf. Lev. 24.14; Deut. 17.6–7. took him outside the town and stoned him to death.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבאו
25
שני
360
האנשים
406
בניבליעל
204
וישבו
324
נגדו
63
ויעדהו
101
אנשי
361
הבליעל
147
אתנבות
859
נגד
57
העם
115
לאמר
271
ברך
222
נבות
458
אלהים
86
ומלך
96
ויצאהו
118
מחוץ
144
לעיר
310
ויסקלהו
217
באבנים
105
וימת
456
I Kings 21:14
Gematria: 1816
וישלחואלאיזבללאמרסקלנבותוימת
Word was sent to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Go and take possession of the vineyard that Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for money; for Naboth is no longer alive, he is dead.”
Say to him, ‘Thus said GOD: Would you murder and take possession? Thus said GOD: In the very place where the dogs lapped up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will lap up your blood too.’”
Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy?” “Yes, I have found you,” he replied. “Because you have committed yourself to doing what is evil in GOD’s sight,
I will bring disaster upon you. I will make a clean sweep of you, I will cut off from Israel every male belonging to Ahab, bond and free.bbond and free See note at 14.10.
And I will make your house like the House of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the House of Baasha son of Ahijah, because of the provocation you have caused by leading Israel to sin.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ונתתי
866
אתביתך
833
כבית
432
ירבעם
322
בןנבט
113
וכבית
438
בעשא
373
בןאחיה
76
אלהכעס
186
אשר
501
הכעסת
555
ותחטא
424
אתישראל
942
I Kings 21:23
Gematria: 1615
וגםלאיזבלדבריהוהלאמרהכלביםיאכלואתאיזבלבחליזרעאל
And GOD has also spoken concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs shall devour Jezebel in the fieldcfield So nine Heb. mss. and the parallel 2 Kings 9.36, as well as Targum and other ancient versions. Most texts read here “rampart.” of Jezreel.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וגםלאיזבל
129
דבר
206
יהוה
26
לאמר
271
הכלבים
107
יאכלו
67
אתאיזבל
451
בחל
40
יזרעאל
318
I Kings 21:24
Gematria: 2323
המתלאחאבבעיריאכלוהכלביםוהמתבשדהיאכלועוףהשמים
All of Ahab’s line who die in the town shall be devoured by dogs, and all who die in the open country shall be devoured by the birds of the sky.’”
“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the disaster in his lifetime; I will bring the disaster upon his house in his son’s time.”