⁸Then she wrote some letters, signed them with Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the officials and leading citizens of Jezreel. ⁹The letters said: “Proclaim a day of fasting, call the people together, and give Naboth the place of honour. ¹⁰Get a couple of scoundrels to accuse him to his face of cursing God and the king. Then take him out of the city and stone him to death.”

¹¹The officials and leading citizens of Jezreel did what Jezebel had commanded. ¹²They proclaimed a day of fasting, called the people together, and gave Naboth the place of honour. ¹³The two scoundrels publicly accused him of cursing God and the king, and so he was taken outside the city and stoned to death. ¹⁴The message was sent to Jezebel: “Naboth has been put to death.”

¹⁵As soon as Jezebel received the message, she said to Ahab, “Naboth is dead. Now go and take possession of the vineyard which he refused to sell to you.” ¹⁶At once Ahab went to the vineyard to take possession of it.

¹⁷Then the Lord said to Elijah, the prophet from Tishbe, ¹⁸“Go to King Ahab of Samaria. You will find him in Naboth’s vineyard, about to take possession of it. ¹⁹Tell him that I, the Lord, say to him, ‘After murdering the man, are you taking over his property as well?’ Tell him that this is what I say: ‘In the very place that the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will lick up your blood!’ ”

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