Lièwángjìshang 21:15

15 Yé xǐ bié tīngjian ná bǎi beì shítou dá sǐ , jiù duì yà hā shuō , nǐ qǐlai dé yé sī liè rén ná bǎi bù kĕn wèi jià yín gĕi nǐde pútaóyuán ba . xiànzaì tā yǐjing sǐ le .

Lièwángjìshang 21:15 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 21:15

And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned,
and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab
To whom she communicated the news as soon as possible:

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;
some think that Naboth was a near relation to Ahab, his father's brother's son ^F5; which they endeavour to support from his estate lying next to Ahab's, and from his being ordered to be set in an high place among the people; and Josephus, as before observed, says he was of illustrious descent; and so Ahab upon his death, his sons being also put to death with him, was next heir to his estate; and therefore Jezebel bid him enter on the possession of it, he being dead, and his sons also, and therefore there was nothing in his way to obstruct him: but rather her meaning is, that Naboth was dead, not of a natural but violent death, by the hand of the civil magistrate; as for blasphemy against God, so for treason against the king, in virtue of which his estate was forfeited to the crown, and that Ahab had a right to possess it; and so it was certainly condemned in later times however among the Jews, that if a man was condemned to die by the sanhedrim, his goods came to his heirs, but if for treason against the king, they ceded to him ^F6.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 48. 2.
F6 Sanhed. ib.

Lièwángjìshang 21:15 In-Context

13 Yǒu liǎng gè fĕi tú lái , zuò zaì ná bǎi de duìmiàn , dāng zhe zhòng mín zuò jiànzhèng gào tā shuō , ná bǎi bàng dú shén hé wáng le . zhòngrén jiù bǎ Tālā dào chéng waì , yòng shítou dá sǐ .

14 Yúshì dǎfa rén qù jiàn yé xǐ bié , shuō , ná bǎi beì shítou dá sǐ le .

15 Yé xǐ bié tīngjian ná bǎi beì shítou dá sǐ , jiù duì yà hā shuō , nǐ qǐlai dé yé sī liè rén ná bǎi bù kĕn wèi jià yín gĕi nǐde pútaóyuán ba . xiànzaì tā yǐjing sǐ le .

16 Yà hā tīngjian ná bǎi sǐ le , jiù qǐlai , xià qù yào dé yé sī liè rén ná bǎi de pútaóyuán .

17 Yēhéhuá de huà líndào tí sī bǐ rén Yǐlìyà shuō ,