Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 21:11

11 And the men of his city, even the elders, and the nobles, who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them , and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

Which is not at all strange in them who had for a long time cast off the fear and sense of God, and prostituted their Consciences and Religion to please their King, and sold themselves▪ to all manner of wickedness, and could not now make a safe▪ and honourable retreat, and durst not disobey Iezabel's command, by whom they knew the King was wholly governed, and who could easily have taken away their Lives in the same manner, if they had refused to kill Naboth.