1 Reis 21:2

2 Acabe tinha dito a Nabote: “Dê-me a sua vinha para eu usar como horta, já que fica ao lado do meu palácio. Em troca eu darei a você uma vinha melhor ou, se preferir, eu pagarei, seja qual for o seu valor”.

1 Reis 21:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 21:2

And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, give me thy vineyard,
that I may have it for a garden of herbs
For a kitchen garden to produce eatables of the vegetable kind for his household, or for a flower garden; and perhaps for both, as Kimchi observes, it being customary to have such in court yards, or behind the house; perhaps he might take his notion of an herb garden from his neighbours the Syrians, who were very diligent and laborious in cultivating their gardens, as Pliny ^F26; hence

``multa Syrorum olera'',

the many herbs of the Syrians, became a proverb with the Greeks:

because it is near unto mine house;
lay very convenient for him:

and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it
seemeth good unto thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money;
which seems very well spoken, that he would either give him a better in exchange, or purchase it at its full value; he did not pretend to take it by usurpation, by force, against his will, as it was represented by Samuel kings would do, ( 1 Samuel 8:14 ) as yet such oppression and tyranny was not exercised.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Nat Hist. l. 20. c. 5.

1 Reis 21:2 In-Context

1 Algum tempo depois houve um incidente envolvendo uma vinha que pertencia a Nabote, de Jezreel. A vinha ficava em Jezreel, ao lado do palácio de Acabe, rei de Samaria.

2 Acabe tinha dito a Nabote: “Dê-me a sua vinha para eu usar como horta, já que fica ao lado do meu palácio. Em troca eu darei a você uma vinha melhor ou, se preferir, eu pagarei, seja qual for o seu valor”.

3 Nabote, contudo, respondeu: “O SENHOR me livre de dar a ti a herança dos meus pais!”

4 Então Acabe foi para casa aborrecido e indignado porque Nabote, de Jezreel, lhe dissera: “Não te darei a herança dos meus pais”. Deitou-se na cama, virou o rosto para a parede e recusou-se a comer.

5 Jezabel, sua mulher, entrou e lhe perguntou: “Por que você está tão aborrecido? Por que não come?”