Naboth

If the elders of Jezreel, to please Jezebel, murder Naboth, is that nothing to Ahab?

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Naboth is slain they take possession of his vineyard; They have seized the treasure and precious things, as forfeited; some way or other they had of devouring the widows 'houses, as the Pharisees, Matt. xxiii.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Rudyard Kipling's "Naboth," exemplifies "the hybridity of imagined communities" through the "emergence of the interstices — the overlap and displacement of difference" where cultures are restructured (Bhabha,

The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism 2006

Elijah challenges King Ahab for his seizure of Naboth's vineyard.

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: Rediscovering Religious Values In The Market Economy Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks 2011

Elijah challenges King Ahab for his seizure of Naboth's vineyard.

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: Rediscovering Religious Values In The Market Economy Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks 2011

Elijah challenges King Ahab for his seizure of Naboth's vineyard.

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: Rediscovering Religious Values In The Market Economy Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks 2011

Elijah challenges King Ahab for his seizure of Naboth's vineyard.

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: Rediscovering Religious Values In The Market Economy Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks 2011

At any rate, there is no doubt that the biblical and later accounts distort her portrait for several reasons, among which we can list her monarchic power, deemed unfit in a woman; her reported devotion to the Baal and Asherah cult and her objection to Elijah and other prophets of YHWH; her education and legal know-how (shown in the Naboth affair); and her foreign origin.

Jezebel: Bible. 2009

Another indication of her power is the story of Naboth (1 Kings 21).

Jezebel: Bible. 2009

Naboth refuses to give or sell it, claiming its status as nontransferable ancestral land.

Jezebel: Bible. 2009