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2I will give you a better vineyard instead of that one. Or, if you want, I will pay you its value in money offered Ahab the ____
5He was not actuated by any feelings of disloyalty or disrespect to the king, but solely from a conscientious regard to the divine law, which, for important reasons, had prohibited the sale of a paternal inheritance
7He wore a big ol' turban wrapped around his head and a scimitar by his side and, every evenin', about midnight He'd jump on his camel named Clyde, and ____
10Then two wicked men came and they sat near to him. They (Verbally suggested and suspected him with committing a crime or offence) Naboth so that the people could all hear them. They said, ‘Naboth has insulted God and the king.’
11"Ahab the Arab" is a novelty TUNE written and recorded by Ray Stevens in 1962
12So the people took him outside the city. They threw stones at him until he was dead. Then the city's leaders sent a message to Jezebel. They told her, ‘The people have killed Naboth with the Rolling .’
14King Ahab said to Naboth, ‘Give me your vineyard. I want to grow vegetables in it, because it is near to my ROYAL RESIDENCE
16This is what she wrote in those letters: ‘Choose a day for everyone to fast. Give Naboth a seat where the people can see him. Put two wicked men in seats near him. Tell them to accuse Naboth that he has insulted God and the king. Then take him out. Throw stones at him until he is (deceased).’
17Naboth replied to Ahab, "The Lord will never allow that to happen! It belongs to me because it has been in my family forever, it has belonged to, and handed down to me by my THESE"
18When Jezebel heard that Naboth was dead, she said to Ahab, ‘Get up from your bed! Go to Jezreel and take Naboth's vineyard for yourself. He refused to sell it to you when he was alive. But now he is dead.’ When Ahab knew that Naboth was dead, he got up from his bed. He went to Naboth's vineyard to take it for _______.
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1So the leaders and the important men who lived in Naboth's city, obeyed Jezebel. They did what she Commanded them to do in the letters that she mailed to them. They chose a day for the people to fast. They put Naboth in a seat where the people could see him.
3Jezebel projects and compasses the death of Naboth. No less than his blood will serve to atone for the affront he has given to Ahab, which she thirsts after the more greedily because of his adherence to the law of the God of (this nation)
4Jezebel said to Ahab, "are you a King?" She darts a half-contemptuous question at Ahab, to stir him to action; for nothing moves a ____ man so much as the fear of being thought ____
6King Ahab, He had emeralds and rubies just drippin' off 'a him, And a ring on every finger of his
8Jezebel wrote some (OF THESE) as if King Ahab had written them. She used his special seal as a mark on them. Then she sent them to the older leaders and important men who lived in Jezreel with Naboth.
9So Ahab went home to his palace. He was angry and upset because of what Naboth had said. He had said, ‘I will not sell you my vineyard that belonged to my ancestors.’ Ahab lay on his bed. He covered his face and he would not eat any (vittles)
11Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab, the sheik of the burning ____
13Ahab's wife, Jezebel, came in to his room. She asked him, ‘Why are you so upset? Why do you refuse to eat anything?’ Ahab answered her, ‘It is because of Naboth, the man from _______. I said to him, “Sell your vineyard to me. Or, if you want, I will give you another vineyard instead of that one.” But he said, “I will not give you my vineyard.” ’
15Naboth lived in a town called Jezreel. He had a vineyard near to the palace of ____, the king of Samaria