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But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating [a]food?” So he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” And Jezebel his wife said to him, “(A)Do you now exercise kingship over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be merry; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 21:5 Lit bread