1 En n hierdie dinge het d¡t gebeur: Nabot, 'n Jisreëliet, het in J¡sreël 'n wingerd gehad, wat langs die paleis van Agab, die koning van Samar¡a, was.
2 En Agab het met Nabot gespreek en gesê: Gee my jou wingerd, dat dit my groentetuin kan word, want dit is naby, langsaan my huis; dan sal ek jou in die plek daarvan 'n wingerd gee wat beter is; of as dit goed is in jou oë, sal ek jou die koopprys daarvan in silwer gee.
3 Maar Nabot het vir Agab gesê: Mag die HERE my daarvoor bewaar dat ek die erfdeel van my vaders aan u sou gee!
4 Toe kom Agab in sy huis, verbitterd en toornig oor die woord wat Nabot, die Jisreëliet, met hom gespreek het, naamlik: Ek mag nie die erfdeel van my vaders aan u gee nie. En hy het op sy bed gaan lê en sy gesig omgedraai en geen brood geëet nie.
5 Daarop kom sy vrou Is,bel by hom en sê vir hom: Waarom is jou gees dan so verbitterd dat jy geen brood eet nie?
6 En hy antwoord haar: Omdat ek met Nabot, die Jisreëliet, gespreek en aan hom gesê het: Gee my jou wingerd vir geld, of as jy wil, sal ek jou 'n wingerd in die plek daarvan gee -- maar hy het gesê: Ek mag my wingerd nie aan u gee nie.
7 Toe sê sy vrou Is,bel vir hom: Oefen jy nou die koningskap oor Israel uit? Staan op, eet brood, en laat jou hart vrolik wees: ek sal jou die wingerd van Nabot, die Jisreëliet, gee.
8 Daarop het sy briewe in die naam van Agab geskrywe en met sy seël dit verseël en die brief gestuur aan die oudstes en die edeles wat in sy stad was, wat by Nabot gewoon het.
9 En in die briewe het sy dit geskrywe: Roep 'n vasdag uit, en sit Nabot vooraan onder die volk;
10 en sit twee manne, deugniete, teenoor hom, wat teen hom getuig en sê: Jy het God en die koning gevloek! Lei hom dan uit en stenig hom, dat hy sterwe.
11 Die manne van sy stad, die oudstes en die edeles wat in sy stad gewoon het, maak toe soos Is,bel hulle laat weet het, soos geskrywe was in die briewe wat sy aan hulle gestuur het.
12 Hulle het 'n vasdag uitgeroep en Nabot vooraan onder die volk gesit.
13 Toe kom die twee manne, deugniete, en gaan sit teenoor hom; en die deugniete het teen hom, teen Nabot, voor die volk getuig en gesê: Nabot het God en die koning gevloek. Daarop lei hulle hom buitekant die stad uit en stenig hom, sodat hy gesterf het.
14 Daarna laat hulle Is,bel weet: Nabot is gestenig en is dood.
15 Net toe Is,bel hoor dat Nabot gestenig en dood was, sê Is,bel vir Agab: Staan op, neem die wingerd van Nabot, die Jisreëliet, in besit wat hy geweier het om vir geld aan jou te gee; want Nabot leef nie, maar is dood.
16 Net toe Agab hoor dat Nabot dood was, het Agab opgestaan om na die wingerd van Nabot, die Jisreëliet, af te gaan om dit in besit te neem.
17 Maar die woord van die HERE het tot El¡a, die Tisbiet, gekom en gesê:
18 Maak jou klaar, gaan af Agab, die koning van Israel, wat in Samar¡a is, tegemoet; kyk, hy is in die wingerd van Nabot, waarheen hy afgegaan het om dit in besit te neem.
19 En jy moet met hom spreek en sê: So sê die HERE: Het jy doodgeslaan en ook in besit geneem? Verder moet jy met hom spreek en sê: So spreek die HERE: Op die plek waar die honde die bloed van Nabot gelek het, sal die honde ook jou eie bloed lek.
20 Daarop sê Agab vir El¡a: Het jy my gekry, my vyand? En hy antwoord: Ek het u gekry, omdat u uself verkoop het om te doen wat verkeerd is in die oë van die HERE!
21 Kyk, Ek gaan onheil bring oor jou en jou skoon wegvee; en Ek sal van Agab uitroei al wat manlik is in Israel, sonder uitsondering.
22 En Ek sal jou huis maak soos die huis van Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, en soos die huis van Ba,sa, die seun van Ah¡a; weens die geterg waarmee jy My geterg het, en dat jy Israel laat sondig het.
23 En ook oor Is,bel het die HERE gespreek en gesê: Die honde sal Is,bel eet by die voorskans van J¡sreël.
24 Die een wat van Agab in die stad sterwe, hom sal die honde eet, en wie in die veld sterwe, sal die voëls van die hemel eet.
25 Waarlik, daar was niemand soos Agab wat homself verkoop het om te doen wat verkeerd is in die oë van die HERE nie, omdat sy vrou Is,bel hom verlei het.
26 En hy het baie afskuwelik gehandel deur agter die drekgode aan te loop net soos die Amoriete gedoen het wat die HERE voor die kinders van Israel uit verdrywe het.
27 En toe Agab hierdie woorde hoor, het hy sy klere geskeur en 'n roukleed om sy lyf gebind en gevas; hy het ook met die roukleed geslaap en stadig rondgeloop.
28 Toe kom die woord van die HERE tot El¡a, die Tisbiet, en sê:
29 Het jy gesien dat Agab hom voor my aangesig verneder het? Omdat hy hom voor my aangesig verneder het, sal Ek die onheil in sy dae nie bring nie; in die dae van sy seun sal Ek die onheil oor sy huis bring.
1 Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.
2 And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.
3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.
4 So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.
5 But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?
6 And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.
7 Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.
8 So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.
9 And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;
10 And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
11 So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.
12 They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.
13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
14 And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.
15 Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.
16 So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.
17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
18 Go down to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria; see, he is in the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, where he has gone to take it as his heritage.
19 Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
21 See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;
22 And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.
23 And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.
24 Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.
25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.
26 He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)
27 Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.
28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
29 Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.