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1 Kings 21:18

in 1 Kings 21

“Get up and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. See, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, of which he has gone to take possession.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it.

KJV

Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.

This verse in 1 Kings 21

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite

on 1 Kings 21:17-19

The prophet who vanished under Jezebel's threat in chapter nineteen is sent to meet her victim's killer in the stolen vineyard itself. Elijah's charge is one unanswerable question, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession, followed by a sentence that binds Ahab's death to the ground he has just walked onto, in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. This is the third house condemned by the dogs formula, after Jeroboam's at 14:11 and Baasha's at 16:4, and 22:38 records it kept to the word.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 21:17 · Written before 373.

proposed

And the Lord said to Elijah, "Get up, go down to meet King Ahab of Israel," and so on. Now, when Jezebel invited Ahab to come and take hold of the vineyard whose owners had been stoned, Elijah went out to meet him, precisely when …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

What good canst thou expect from it when it is purchased with blood ( Hab. ii. 12 ) and thou hast caused the owner thereof to lose his life? " Job xxxi. Now that he is pleasing himself with his ill-gotten wealth, and giving direction for the turning of this vineyard into a flower-garden, his meat in his bowels is turned.

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Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?--While Ahab was in the act of surveying his ill-gotten possession, Elijah, by divine commission, stood before him. The appearance of the prophet, at such a time, was ominous of evil, but his language was much more so (compare Eze 45:8;

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Go down to meet Ahab - This was the next day after the murder, as we learn from the above quotation, 2Ki 9:26.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • ק֣וּםarise

    kumH6965628 times

  • רֵ֗דgo down

    redH3381381 times

  • לִקְרַ֛אתto meet

    likratH7122139 times

  • אַחְאָ֥בAhab

    ʾachavH25692 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwho

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • בְּשֹׁמְר֑וֹן[is] in Samaria

    beshomeronH8111109 times

  • הִנֵּה֙there!

    hinehH2009843 times

  • בְּכֶ֣רֶם[he is] in [the] vineyard of

    bekheremH375492 times

  • נָב֔וֹתNaboth

    navotH502222 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־where

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • יָ֥רַדhe has gone down

    yaradH3381381 times

  • שָׁ֖םthere

    shamH8033834 times

  • לְרִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃to take possession of it

    lerishtoH3423231 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 13:32

    for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 16:24

      He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.

    • 1 Kings 13:2

      And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of…

    • Leviticus 26:30

      I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

    • 1 Kings 12:31

      Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

    • 2 Kings 23:16–19

      And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it,…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 22:9

    Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 9:27–28

      When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur,…

    • 2 Chronicles 21:4

      When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.

    • 2 Chronicles 21:20

      Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 21:17; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.