Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
3 Kings (1 Kings) Chapter 21
Overview
Kg1 21:1, Ahab being denied Naboth's vineyard, is grieved; Kg1 21:5, Jezebel writing letters against Naboth, he is condemned of blasphemy; Kg1 21:15, Ahab take possession of the vineyard; Kg1 21:17, Elijah denounces judgments against Ahab and Jezebel; Kg1 21:25, Wicked Ahab repenting, God defers the judgment.
am 3105, bc 899
after: Kg1 20:35-43; Ch2 28:22; Ezr 9:13, Ezr 9:14; Isa 9:13; Jer 5:3
Jezreel: Kg1 18:45; Jos 19:18; Jdg 6:33; Sa1 29:1; Hos 1:4, Hos 1:5
Give me: The request of Ahab, at first view, appears fair and honourable. But, as he most evidentially wished Naboth to alienate it finally, which was expressly forbidden and provided against in the law of God (Lev 25:14-28), it was high iniquity in Ahab to tempt him to do it, and to covet it showed the depravity of his soul. Gen 3:6; Exo 20:17; Deu 5:21; Sa1 8:14; Jer 22:17; Hab 2:9-11; Luk 12:15; Ti1 6:9; Jam 1:14, Jam 1:15
a garden of herbs: Kg2 9:27; Deu 11:10; Ecc 2:5; Sol 4:15
seem good to thee: Heb. be good in thine eyes, Gen 16:6; Sa1 8:6, Sa1 29:6
The Lord: Gen 44:7, Gen 44:17; Jos 22:29, Jos 24:16; Sa1 12:23, Sa1 24:6, Sa1 26:9-11; Ch1 11:19; Job 27:5; Rom 3:4, Rom 3:6, Rom 3:31, Rom 6:2, Rom 6:15, Rom 7:7, Rom 7:13; Co1 6:15; Gal 6:14
I should give: Lev 25:23; Num 36:7; Eze 46:18
heavy: Kg1 20:43; Job 5:2; Isa 57:20, Isa 57:21; Jon 4:1, Jon 4:9; Hab 2:9-12
I will not: Kg1 21:3; Num 22:13, Num 22:14
And he laid him: Gen 4:5-8; Sa2 13:2, Sa2 13:4; Ecc 6:9, Ecc 7:8, Ecc 7:9; Eph 4:27; Jam 1:14
Jezebel: Kg1 21:25, Kg1 16:31, Kg1 18:4, Kg1 19:2; Gen 3:6
Why is thy spirit: Sa2 13:4; Neh 2:2; Est 4:5
Because: Kg1 21:2; Est 5:9-14, Est 6:12; Pro 14:30; Ti1 6:9, Ti1 6:10; Jam 4:2-7
I will not give: Kg1 21:3, Kg1 21:4
Dost thou now: Sa1 8:4; Sa2 13:4; Pro 30:31; Ecc 4:1, Ecc 8:4; Dan 5:19-21
I will give thee: Kg1 21:15, Kg1 21:16; Mic 2:1, Mic 2:2, Mic 7:3
she wrote: Sa2 11:14, Sa2 11:15; Ch2 32:17; Ezr 4:7, Ezr 4:8, Ezr 4:11; Neh 6:5; Est 3:12-15, Est 8:8-13
the elders: Num 11:16; Deu 16:18, Deu 16:19, Deu 21:1-9
the nobles: Kg1 21:1; Kg2 10:1-7, Kg2 10:11
Proclaim a fast: Gen 34:13-17; Isa 58:4; Mat 2:8, Mat 23:14; Luk 20:47; Joh 18:28
on high among: Heb. in the top of
two men: Deu 19:15; Mat 26:59, Mat 26:60; Act 6:11
sons of Belial: Deu 13:13; Jdg 19:22
Thou didst blaspheme: Some, with Parkhurst, would render the original, bairachta elohim wamailech, "Thou hast blessed the gods and Molech;" a sense, however, which seems extremely forced, and is not acknowledged by any of the ancient versions, though the LXX and Vulgate render bairachta by ευλογησε, benedixit, "blessed." It is no unusual thing for a word to have opposite senses. Exo 22:28; Lev 24:15; Mat 26:59-66; Joh 10:33; Act 6:13
did as Jezebel: Exo 1:17, Exo 1:21, Exo 23:1, Exo 23:2; Lev 19:15; Sa1 22:17, Sa1 23:20; Kg2 10:6, Kg2 10:7; Ch2 24:21; Pro 29:12, Pro 29:26; Dan 3:18-25; Hos 5:11; Mic 6:16; Mat 2:12, Mat 2:16; Act 4:19, Act 5:29
the men of Belial: Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20, Deu 19:16-21; Psa 27:12, Psa 35:11; Pro 6:19, Pro 19:5, Pro 19:9, Pro 25:18; Mal 3:5; Mar 14:56-59
blaspheme God: Job 1:5, Job 1:11, Job 2:9; Mat 9:3; Act 6:11
the king: Ecc 10:20; Isa 8:21; Amo 7:10; Luk 23:2; Joh 19:12; Act 24:5
they carried him: Lev 24:11-16; Num 15:35, Num 15:36; Deu 13:10, Deu 21:21, Deu 22:21, Deu 22:24; Jos 7:24, Jos 7:25; Kg2 9:26; Ecc 4:1; Act 7:57-59
Naboth is stoned: Sa2 11:14-24; Ecc 5:8, Ecc 8:14
Arise: Kg1 21:7; Pro 1:10-16, Pro 4:17
Ahab rose up: Sa2 1:13-16, Sa2 4:9-12, Sa2 11:25-27, Sa2 23:15-17; Psa 50:18; Isa 33:15; Oba 1:12-14; Rom 1:32; Pe2 2:15
Kg2 1:15, Kg2 1:16, Kg2 5:26; Psa 9:12; Isa 26:21
which is in Samaria: Kg1 13:32; Ch2 22:9
Hast thou killed: Gen 3:11, Gen 4:9, Gen 4:10; Sa2 12:9; Mic 3:1-4; Hab 2:9, Hab 2:12
In the place: This punishment, on Ahab's humiliation and repentance, was transferred from him to his son Jehoram (Kg1 21:29), in whom it was literally accomplished. See the parallel texts. Kg1 22:38; Jdg 1:7; Sa2 12:11; Kg2 9:25, Kg2 9:26; Est 7:10; Psa 7:15, Psa 7:16; Psa 9:16, Psa 58:10, Psa 58:11; Mat 7:2
Hast thou found me: Kg1 18:17, Kg1 22:8; Ch2 18:7, Ch2 18:17; Amo 5:10; Mar 12:12; Gal 4:16; Rev 11:10; Amo 5:10; Mar 12:12; Gal 4:16; Rev 11:10
thou hast sold: Kg1 21:25; Kg2 17:17; Isa 50:1, Isa 52:3; Rom 7:14
to work: Kg1 16:30; Kg2 21:2; Ch2 33:6; Eph 4:19
Behold: Kg1 14:10; Exo 20:5, Exo 20:6; Kg2 9:7-9, Kg2 10:1-7, Kg2 10:11-14, Kg2 10:17, Kg2 10:30
him that pisseth: Sa1 25:22, Sa1 25:34
him that is shut up: Kg1 14:10; Deu 32:36; Kg2 9:8, Kg2 9:9, Kg2 14:26
make thine: Kg1 15:29, Kg1 16:3, Kg1 16:11
made Israel to sin: Kg1 14:16, Kg1 15:30, Kg1 15:34, Kg1 16:26
Jezebel: Kg1 21:25; Kg2 9:10, Kg2 9:30-37
the dogs: Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, "the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves."
wall: or, ditch.
that dieth: Kg1 14:11, Kg1 16:4; Isa 14:19; Jer 15:3; Eze 32:4, Eze 32:5, Eze 39:18-20; Rev 19:18
But there: Kg1 21:20, Kg1 16:30-33; Kg2 23:25
sell himself: Kg1 21:20; Kg2 17:17; Isa 50:1, Isa 52:3; Rom 6:19, Rom 7:14
whom Jezebel: Kg1 21:7, Kg1 11:1-4, Kg1 16:31, Kg1 18:4, Kg1 19:2; Pro 22:14; Ecc 7:26; Mar 6:17-27; Act 6:12, Act 14:2
stirred up: or, incited
very abominably: Ch2 15:8; Isa 65:4; Jer 16:18, Jer 44:4; Eze 18:12; Pe1 4:3; Rev 21:8
according to: Gen 15:16; Lev 18:25-30, Lev 20:22, Lev 20:23; Deu 12:31; Kg2 16:3, Kg2 21:2, Kg2 21:11; Ch2 33:2, Ch2 33:9, Ch2 36:14; Ezr 9:11-14; Psa 106:35-39; Eze 16:47
he rent: Gen 37:34; Kg2 6:30, Kg2 18:37; Jon 3:6
lay in sackcloth: Sa2 12:17; Job 16:15; Isa 22:12, Isa 58:5-8; Joe 1:13
went softly: Isa 38:15
Seest thou: Jer 7:17; Luk 7:44
Ahab: Exo 10:3; Psa 18:44, Psa 66:3, Psa 78:34-37
I will not: Psa 86:15; Eze 33:10, Eze 33:11; Mic 7:18; Rom 2:4; Pe2 3:9
the evil in: Kg1 21:21-23
in his son's days: Kg2 9:25, Kg2 9:26, Kg2 9:33-37, Kg2 10:1-7, Kg2 10:11