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, “It is because I was speaking to Naboth the Jezreelite and saying to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in place of it.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” Jezebel his wife said to him, “(A)Do you now [b]reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 21:5 Lit bread
  2. 1 Kings 21:7 Lit exercise kingship

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