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Naboth said to Ahab, “May the LORD forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”
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Verse 3. Fathers. He would have deemed it a mark of disrespect and a crime, as he was not in a state of indigence; which alone could authorize him to sell his property, and then only till the year of jubilee; (Leviticus 25:23) and as his field was to be turned into a royal garden, and the law was disregarded by the king, there was no prospect of his regaining it at that period. The law of Moses was till in force; and there were some, like Naboth, who were resolved to comply with it, ( Calmet.) even at the hazard of their lives. Tirinus.
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