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Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 21:15

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

1 Kings21:15

15 ¶ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naborth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

Either, First, By right of confiscation, to repair the injury which he did to the King by blaspheming him. Or, Secondly, By tyrannical Usurpation. Or, Thirdly, By right of Inhesitanee: for some say that Ahab was his next Kinsman, his Sons being Dead; which they judge more likely, because his Land was next to the Kings.

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