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So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
[FONT="]And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.[/FONT]
And she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed [them] with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the officials who were in his city, who sat with Naboth.
21:11
And the men of his city did, the elders and the officials that dwelled in his city, as Jezebel sent to them, as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them.
[h=1]1 Kings 21:12 New International Version (NIV)[/h][FONT="]12 They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
[h=1](1 Kings 21:15): ... New International Version (NIV)[/h]15 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.”
[FONT="]“Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.[/FONT]
Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
[FONT="]Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!”[/FONT] [FONT="]“I have found you,” he answered, “because you have soldyourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.[/FONT]
1 Kings 21:21 (AKJV)
Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that urinates against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
[h=1](1 Kings 21:22): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]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.
[h=1](1 Kings 21:23): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]23 Of Jezebel also has the Lord spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.’
[FONT="]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.”[/FONT]
[FONT="]Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the [/FONT][FONT="]Lord[/FONT][FONT="], [/FONT][FONT="]because Jezebel his wife incited him.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“Dogs[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] will feed on those who die in the country.”[/FONT]