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Ahab wants Naboth’s vineyard beside the palace, but Naboth refuses because it is his ancestral inheritance. Ahab sulks. Jezebel writes letters in his name, arranges false witnesses, and has Naboth condemned and stoned. Ahab then takes the vineyard. Elijah confronts him with judgment against Ahab and Jezebel. Ahab tears his clothes, fasts, and humbles himself, and God says the full disaster on his house will be delayed until his son’s days.
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