And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
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Gill's Exposition
And she wrote in the letters, saying, proclaim a fast,.... Pretending fears of some dreadful calamity coming upon the nation, and therefore fasting and humiliation were necessary to avert it, and it…
Barnes' Notes
The meaning is, “Art thou king, and yet sufferest thyself to be thwarted in this way by a mere subject? I, the queen, the weak woman, will give thee the vineyard, if thou, the king, the strong man,…
Adam Clarke
Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? - Naboth, not Ahab, is king. If he have authority to refuse, and thou have no power to take, he is the greater man of the two. This is the vital language of…
Nothing but mischief is to be expected when Jezebel enters into the story - that cursed woman, Kg2 9:34.
I. Under pretence of comforting her afflicted husband, she feeds his pride and passion, and…
Cambridge Bible
Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? There is not expressed here any sign of a question in the original, but there can be no doubt that this is the force of the words. The Hebrew order is -Thou…
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