And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
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Gill's Exposition
And the men of the city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them,.... That Jezebel should contrive so execrable a scheme, and that there…
Barnes' Notes
The object of this fast was at once to raise a prejudice against Naboth, who was assumed by the elders to have disgraced the town; and at the same time to give an air of religion to the proceedings,…
Adam Clarke
Proclaim a fast - Intimate that there is some great calamity coming upon the nation, because of some evil tolerated in it.
Set Naboth on high - Bring him to a public trial.
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
Proclaim a fast Let a day of humiliation be appointed, for it must be represented that a great wrong has been committed both against God and the king. Cf. 1Sa 7:6 where the people gathered at Mizpeh…
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