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wife came to him and said vnto him, Why is thy found thee: for thou hast solde thy selfe to worke
spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread? 6 And wickednes in the sight of the Lord. 21 Beholde,
he said vnto her, Because I spake vnto Naboth I will bring euill vpon thee, and wil take away
the Izreelite, and sayd vnto him, Giue me thy thy posteritie, and wil cut off from Ahab him that
vineyard for money, or if it please thee, I will giue pisseth against the wall, as well him that is shut
thee another vineyard for it: but he answered, I vp, as him that is left in Israel, 22 And I wil make
wil not giue thee my vineyarde. Then Iezebel his thine house like the house of Ieroboam the sonne
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wife sayde vnto him, Doest thou nowe gouerne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne
the kingdome of Israel? vp, eate bread, and be of Ahiiah, for the prouocation wherewith thou
of good cheere, I will giue thee the vineyard of hast prouoked, and made Israel to sinne. 23 And
Naboth the Izreelite. 8 So she wrote letters in also of Iezebel spake the Lord, saying, The dogs
Ahabs name, and sealed them with his seale, and shall eate Iezebel, by the wall of Izreel. 24 The
sent the letters vnto the Elders, and to the nobles dogs shall eate him of Ahabs stocke, that dyeth
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that were in his citie dwelling with Naboth. And in the citie: and him that dyeth in the fieldes,
shee wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaime a fast, shall the foules of the ayre eate. 25 (But there was
and set Naboth among the chiefe of the people, none like Ahab, who did fell him selfe, to worke
10 And set two wicked men before him, and let wickednesse in the sight of the Lord: whom
them witnesse against him, saying, Thou diddest Iezebel his wife prouoked. 26 For he did exceeding
blaspheme God and the King: then cary him out, abominably in following idoles, according to all
and stone him that he may dye. 11 And the men of that the Amorites did, whom the Lord cast out
his citie, euen the Elders and gouernours, which before the children of Israel.) 27 Nowe when
dwelt in his citie, did as Iezebel had sent vnto Ahab heard those wordes, he rent his clothes, and
them: as it was written in the letters, which put sackcloth vpon him and fasted, and lay in
she had sent vnto them. 12 They proclaimed a sackecloth and went softely. 28 And the worde
fast, and set Naboth among the chiefe of the of the Lord came to Eliiah the Tishbite, saying,
people, 13 And there came two wicked men, and 29 Seest thou how Ahab is humbled before me?
sate before him: and the wicked men witnessed because he submitteth himselfe before me, I will
against Naboth in the presence of the people not bring that euill in his dayes, but in his sonnes
saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the King. dayes wil I bring euill vpon his house.
Then they caried him away out of the citie, and
stoned him with stones, that he dyed. 14 Then 22
they sent to Iezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned 1
and is dead. 15 And when Iezebel heard that And they continued three yeere without
Naboth was stoned and was dead, Iezebel sayd to warre betweene Aram and Israel. 2 And in the
third yeere did Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah
Ahab, Vp, and take possession of the vineyarde 3
of Naboth the Izreelite, which he refused to giue come downe to ye King of Israel. (Then the
thee for money: for Naboth is not aliue, but King of Israel saide vnto his seruants, Knowe
is dead. 16 And when Ahab heard that Naboth yee not that Ramoth Gilead was ours? and wee
was dead, he rose to go downe to the vineyard stay, and take it not out of ye hand of the King
of Naboth the Izreelite, to take possession of it. of Aram?) 4 And he sayde vnto Iehoshaphat,
17 And the word of the Lord came vnto Eliiah the Wilt thou goe with mee to battel against Ramoth
Tishbite, saying, 18 Arise, goe downe to meete Gilead? And Iehoshaphat saide vnto the King
Ahab King of Israel, which is in Samaria. loe, of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy
he is in the vineyarde of Naboth, whither he is people, and mine horses as thine horses. Then
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gone downe to take possession of it. 19 Therefore Iehoshaphat saide vnto the King of Israel, Aske
shalt thou say vnto him, Thus sayth the Lord, counsaile, I pray thee, of the Lord to day. Then
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Hast thou killed, and also gotten possession? And the King of Israel gathered the prophets vpon a
thou shalt speake vnto him, saying, Thus sayth foure hundreth men, and said vnto them, Shal
the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the I go against Ramoth Gilead to battel, or shall I
blood of Naboth, shall dogs licke euen thy blood let it alone? And they said, Go vp: for ye Lord
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also. 20 And Ahab sayd to Eliiah, Hast thou found shall deliuer it into the hands of the King. And
mee, O mine enemie? And he answered, I haue Iehoshaphat said, Is there here neuer a Prophet
of the Lord more, that we might inquire of him?