Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NASB95

NASB95

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

1 Kings 21 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Ahab Covets Naboth's Vineyard

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:1 - Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if [fn]you like, I will give you the price of [fn]it in money.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:3 - But Naboth said to Ahab, “The LORD forbid me that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:4 - So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no [fn]food.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 - But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating [fn]food?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:6 - So he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now [fn]reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8 - So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9 - Now she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:10 - and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him [fn]to death.”

Jezebel's Plot

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11 - So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12 - They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13 - Then the two worthless men came in and sat before him; and the worthless men testified against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him [fn]to death with stones.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:14 - Then they sent word to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:17 - Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18 - “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to take possession of it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - “You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, “In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours.”’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he [fn]answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - “Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, both bond and free in Israel;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 - and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have made Israel sin.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “Of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the [fn]district of Jezreel.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24 - “The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, [fn]because Jezebel his wife incited him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 - It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put [fn]on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about [fn]despondently.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:28 - Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:29 - “Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son’s days.”
See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: it is good in your eyes
Literally: this
Literally: bread
Literally: bread
Literally: exercise kingship
Literally: so that he dies
Literally: with stones so that he died
Literally: said
Literally: portion; some mss read rampart
Or, whom Jezebel his wife incited
Literally: sackcloth on his flesh
Or, softly
NASB95

New American Standard Bible 1995
Copyright (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved
https://www.lockman.org/new-american-standard-bible-nasb/

The "NASB," "NAS," "New American Standard Bible," and "New American Standard" trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by The Lockman Foundation. Use of these trademarks requires the permission of The Lockman Foundation.

For Permission To Quote visit http://www.lockman.org

For more information on this translation, see the NASB95 Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB95
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB95
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

1 Kings Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras