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Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
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Verse 4. Fretting. The Hebrew terms are the same as Calmet. 20:43. What weakness in Achab! Riches and honours are not capable of ensuring content. Calmet.—“Who, thinkest thou, is poor; the man who is content with his own, or he who covets another’s property?” Saint Ambrose Naboth ii.—Wall, as Ezechias did afterwards, in very different dispositions; though both were oppressed with grief. Isaiah 38:2. Septuagint “he covered his face.” Bible.
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