John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 1. And it came to pass, after these things , etc.] 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 “ Hosea 1:5”) or “who was in Jezreel”; that is Naboth, for the vineyard was in Samaria, ( 1 Kings 21:18) hard 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 f443 , were sixteen miles distant from each other.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - Naboth, perhaps, had been pleased that he had a vineyard situated s near the palace, but the situation proved fatal to him; many a man' possessions have been his snare, and his neighbourhood to greatness, or bad consequence. Discontent is a sin that is its own punishment, an makes men torment themselves. It is a sin that is its own parent; it arises not from the condition, but from the mind: as we find Pau contented in a prison, so Ahab was discontented in a palace. He had all the delights of Canaan, that pleasant land, at command; the wealth of kingdom, the pleasures of a court, and the honours and powers of throne; yet all avails him nothing without Naboth's vineyard. Wron desires expose men to continual vexations, and those that are dispose to fret, however well off, may always find something or other to fre at.
Original Hebrew ויהי1961 אחר310 הדברים1697 האלה428 כרם3754 היה1961 לנבות5022 היזרעאלי3158 אשׁר834 ביזרעאל3157 אצל681 היכל1964 אחאב256 מלך4428 שׁמרון׃8111
