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Then Jezebel his wife came to him, and she said to him, “What is this, that your spirit is sullen and you are not eating food?” Then he said to her, “When I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and asked him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or it you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in place of it,’ he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” Jezebel his wife said to him, “Now, you rule[a] over Israel. Get up, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful.[b] I myself will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 21:7 Literally “do kingship”
  2. 1 Kings 21:7 Literally “good”