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Naboth
Naboth was a resident of Jezreel , who refused to sell to King Ahab a vineyard near the palace of the prince who was the inheritance of his fathers: Jezebel , Ahab's wife, accused him, in revenge for blasphemy against God and cursed the king.
Using false witnesses, she managed to be sentenced to be stoned to death ( 899 BCE ), and took his vineyard. The prophet Elijah , on learning that crime, Ahab stood before him and predicted that very place where the dogs had licked up Naboth's blood, refreshing themselves in his. This prophecy is fulfilled after a few years.
See also
- (La) Ambrosius , De Nabuthe Jezraelita liber unus, in Patrologia Latina , XIV, col. 765-792 ( text online in pdf format on the site Documenta Catholica Omnia).
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