1 Kings 21:2   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth."

1 Kings 21:3   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

But Naboth replied, "The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my ancestors."

1 Kings 21:4   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors." He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.

1 Kings 21:5   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, "Why are you so sullen? Why won't you eat?"

1 Kings 21:6   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

He answered her, "Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, 'Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.' But he said, 'I will not give you my vineyard.' "

1 Kings 21:7   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

Jezebel his wife said, "Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I'll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."

1 Kings 21:15   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, "Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead."

1 Kings 21:19   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

Say to him, 'This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?' Then say to him, 'This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, dogs will lick up your blood-yes, yours!' "

1 Kings 21:20   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

Ahab said to Elijah, "So you have found me, my enemy!" "I have found you," he answered, "because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

1 Kings 21:21   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

He says, 'I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel-slave or free.

1 Kings 21:22   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have aroused my anger and have caused Israel to sin.'

1 Kings 21:29   (Read all of 1 Kings 21)

"Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son."

1 Kings 22:3   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

The king of Israel had said to his officials, "Don't you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us and yet we are doing nothing to retake it from the king of Aram?"

1 Kings 22:4   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

So he asked Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?" Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."

1 Kings 22:11   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, "This is what the Lord says: 'With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' "

1 Kings 22:13   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably."

1 Kings 22:16   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

The king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?"

1 Kings 22:18   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?"

1 Kings 22:22   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

" 'By what means?' the Lord asked. " 'I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. " 'You will succeed in enticing him,' said the Lord. 'Go and do it.'

1 Kings 22:23   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

"So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you."

1 Kings 22:24   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. "Which way did the spirit from the Lord go when he went from me to speak to you?" he asked.

1 Kings 22:25   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

Micaiah replied, "You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room."

1 Kings 22:28   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

Micaiah declared, "If you ever return safely, the Lord has not spoken through me." Then he added, "Mark my words, all you people!"

1 Kings 22:30   (Read all of 1 Kings 22)

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.