1 Kings 21

Treated in 10 passages across the library.

  • 21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and went about quietly. 3
  • 21:13 Then the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him, and the worthless men brought their charge against Naboth in front of the people: "Naboth has cursed God and the king." So they led him out of the city and stoned him until he died. 2
  • 21:20 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" "I have found you," Elijah answered, "because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD. 2
  • 21:9 In the letters she wrote: "Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the front of the people. 1
  • 21:25 There was truly no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD, urged on by his wife Jezebel. 1
  • 21:28 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite: 1

Open Word Bible

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites 1 Kings 21: 9

    …to swear against him, and bring him within the compass of treason, she was the murderer. 1 Kings 21: 9, 10. (6) By putting poison into cups. Thus the wife of Commodes the emperor killed her…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 3 — Regeneration by Faith cites 1 Kings 21:28

    …it is asked how Ahab obtained pardon, and averted the punishment denounced against him (1 Kings 21:28, 29), seeing, it appears, he was only amazed on the sudden, and afterwards continued his…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.9 The Ninth Commandment cites 1 Kings 21: 13

    …saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king:’ and their witness took away his life. 1 Kings 21: 13. The queen of Persia being sick, the magicians accused two godly virgins of having by…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.10 The Tenth Commandment cites 1 Kings 21: 13

    …commandment; ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ Covetous Ahab killed Naboth to get his vineyard. 1 Kings 21: 13. How many have swum to the crown in blood? Covetousness is a breach of the seventh…

  5. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section XI. The Evidence of Gods Certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of Moral Agents cites 1 Kings xxi. 20 – 22

    …choosing rather to hearken to the false prophets, in going to Ramoth Gilead to his ruin, (1 Kings xxi. 20 – 22.) The moral conduct of Hazael was foretold, in that cruelty he should be guilty of; on…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.2 Repentance cites 1 Kings 21: 27

    …than all this. ‘He rent his clothes, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.’ 1 Kings 21: 27. His clothes were rent, but not his heart. The eye may be watery, and the heart flinty.…

  7. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VII. Persons having religious affections of many kinds, accompanying one another, is not sufficient to determine whether they have any gracious affections or no cites 1 Kings 21:27

    …and the children of Israel in the wilderness, Exod. 9:27, 1 Sam. 24:16, 17, and 26:21, 1 Kings 21:27, Numb. 14:39, 40; and of the fear of God, as in the Samaritans, “who feared the Lord, and…

  8. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VI. Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation cites 1 Kings 21:27

    …Ahab, when he had a visible humility, a resemblance of true humility, went softly, 1 Kings 21:27. A penitent, in the exercise of true humiliation, is represented as still and silent…

  9. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Unsearchable Riches cites 1 Kings xxi. 20

    …of a wrath to come. When Ahab saw Elijah, he said, “Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?” (1 Kings xxi. 20.) When Micaiah was named to Ahab, he cried, “I hate him because he doth not prophesy good…

  10. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Adam's Sin cites I Kings 21:25

    …him to evil. ‘Ahab sold himself to work wickedness, whom his wife Jezebel stirred up.’ I Kings 21:25. She blew the coals, and made his sin flame out the more. Satan’s subtlety was in…