1 Algum tempo depois houve um incidente envolvendo uma vinha que pertencia a Nabote, de Jezreel. A vinha ficava em Jezreel, ao lado do palácio de Acabe, rei de Samaria.
2 Acabe tinha dito a Nabote: "Dê-me a sua vinha para eu usar como horta, já que fica ao lado do meu palácio. Em troca eu lhe darei uma vinha melhor ou, se preferir, eu lhe pagarei, seja qual for o seu valor".
3 Nabote, contudo, respondeu: "O SENHOR me livre de dar a ti a herança dos meus pais! "
4 Então Acabe foi para casa, aborrecido e indignado porque Nabote, de Jezreel, lhe dissera: "Não te darei a herança dos meus pais". Deitou-se na cama, virou o rosto para a parede e recusou-se a comer.
5 Sua mulher Jezabel entrou e lhe perguntou: "Por que você está tão aborrecido? Por que não come? "
6 Ele respondeu-lhe: "Porque eu disse a Nabote, de Jezreel: Venda-me a sua vinha; ou, se preferir, eu lhe darei outra vinha em lugar dessa. Mas ele disse: ‘Não te darei minha vinha’ ".
7 Disse-lhe Jezabel, sua mulher: "É assim que você age como rei de Israel? Levante-se e coma! Anime-se. Conseguirei para você a vinha de Nabote, de Jezreel".
8 Então ela escreveu cartas em nome de Acabe, pôs nelas o selo do rei, e as enviou às autoridades e aos nobres da cidade de Nabote.
9 Naquelas cartas ela escreveu: "Decretem um dia de jejum e ponham Nabote sentado num lugar de destaque entre o povo.
10 E mandem dois homens vadios sentar-se em frente dele e façam com que testemunhem que ele amaldiçoou tanto a Deus quanto ao rei. Levem-no para fora e apedrejem-no até a morte".
11 As autoridades e os nobres da cidade de Nabote fizeram conforme Jezabel os orientara nas cartas que lhes tinha escrito.
12 Decretaram jejum e fizeram Nabote sentar-se num local destacado no meio do povo.
13 Então dois homens vadios vieram e se sentaram em frente dele e o acusaram diante do povo, dizendo: "Nabote amaldiçoou tanto a Deus quanto ao rei". Por isso o levaram para fora da cidade e o apedrejaram até a morte.
14 Então mandaram informar a Jezabel: "Nabote foi apedrejado e está morto".
15 Assim que Jezabel soube que Nabote tinha sido apedrejado até a morte, disse a Acabe: "Levante-se e tome posse da vinha que Nabote, de Jezreel, recusou-se a vender-lhe. Ele não está mais vivo; está morto! "
16 Quando Acabe ouviu que Nabote estava morto, levantou-se e foi tomar posse da vinha.
17 Então a palavra do Senhor veio ao tesbita Elias:
18 "Vá encontrar-se com Acabe, o rei de Israel, que reina em Samaria. Agora ele está na vinha de Nabote para tomar posse dela.
19 Diga-lhe: Assim diz o Senhor: Você assassinou um homem e ainda se apossou de sua propriedade? E acrescentou: Assim diz o Senhor: No local onde os cães lamberam o sangue de Nabote, lamberão também o seu sangue; isso mesmo, o seu sangue! "
20 Acabe disse a Elias: "Então você me encontrou, meu inimigo! " "Eu o encontrei", ele respondeu, "porque você se vendeu para fazer o que o Senhor reprova.
21 ‘Vou trazer desgraça sobre você. Devorarei os seus descendentes e eliminarei da sua família todos os do sexo masculino em Israel, sejam escravos ou livres.
22 Farei à sua família o que fiz à de Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, e à de Baasa, filho de Aías, pois você provocou a minha ira e fez Israel pecar. ’
23 "E, acerca de Jezabel, o Senhor diz: ‘Os cães devorarão Jezabel junto ao muro de Jezreel’.
24 "Os que pertencem a Acabe e que morrerem na cidade os cães comerão, e as aves do céu se alimentarão dos que morrerem no campo".
25 ( Nunca existiu ninguém como Acabe, que se vendeu para fazer o que o Senhor reprova, pressionado por sua mulher Jezabel.
26 Ele se comportou da maneira mais detestável possível, indo atrás de ídolos, como faziam os amorreus, que o Senhor tinha expulsado de diante de Israel. )
27 Quando Acabe ouviu essas palavras, rasgou as suas vestes, vestiu-se de pano de saco e jejuou. Passou a dormir sobre panos de saco e agia com mansidão.
28 Então a palavra do Senhor veio ao tesbita Elias:
29 "Você notou como Acabe se humilhou diante de mim? Visto que se humilhou, não trarei essa desgraça durante o seu reinado, mas durante o reinado de seu filho".
1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it: or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, Jehovah forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? 6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard. 7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth. 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst curse God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.
11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bare witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead. 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
17 And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it. 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah. 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel: 22 and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and hast made Israel to sin. 23 And of Jezebel also spake Jehovah, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. 24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat. 25 (But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.)
27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. 28 And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son’s day will I bring the evil upon his house.