OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 21:1

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After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

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Verse 1. Who was. Hebrew Chal. and so forth place this after vineyard, and read which, referring it to the ground; which we might naturally suppose would be the place of Naboth’s nativity, as it was his parental estate, 4 Kennicott. 9:21. Josephus calls the place Azari, and says it was a field contiguous to the king’s palace. Septuagint αλω, “threshing-floor.”

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