In this chapter we have an account of Ahab's design to have Naboth's vineyard, for which he offered him another, or the value of that, but Naboth refusing to part with it, Ahab fell sick, 1Ki 21:1, the reason of which being found out by Jezebel, she devised means to get Naboth put to death under the colour of justice for blasphemy, 1Ki 21:5, and then bid Ahab go and take possession of the vineyard, where he was met by Elijah, who denounced the judgments of God upon him, and Jezebel, and all his family, for his injustice, 1Ki 21:15, but he humbling himself, the evil threatened was deferred to the days of his son, 1Ki 21:27.
Ver. 1. And it came to pass, after these things,.... After the two battles with the king of Syria, in which Ahab was victorious, and after he had let Benhadad, a blasphemer, and injurious to him, go free:[that] Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel; of which place See Gill on "Ho 1:5" or "who was in Jezreel"; that is Naboth, for the vineyard was in Samaria, 1Ki 21:18hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria; that being the metropolis of the kingdom of Israel, is put for it, who, besides his palace in Samaria, had another in Jezreel; which, according to Bunting , were sixteen miles distant from each other.
Travels, &c. p.