1 Kings 21

1 Kings 21:3

The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

Were it a thing free and lawful for me to do, I should not stick at the motion; but thou knowest, that God hath expressly forbidden a final alienation of the land of our inheritance. I dare not sin to pleasure thee. See Levit. xxv. 23.

And worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

As one, that affected to be an universal idolater, he worshipped all the spirits that rule in the air, and all the stars that are fixed in heaven.

1 Kings 21:7

Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel?

Is it for thee, that art the king of Israel, to take a denial of so mean a suit, or to be thus affected with the repulse? Hast not thou power enough to give thyself satisfaction? Other spirits would become sovereignty: away with this poor dejectedness.

1 Kings 21:9

Proclaim a fast, &c.

Proclaim a fast; as those, that have cause of a public humiliation, for this heinous sin of Naboth’s blasphemy.

1 Kings 21:13

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab.

I will take the same course with Jerusalem, that I have taken with Samaria; and with the wicked house of Ahab, which I have utterly rooted out from before me.

1 Kings 21:29

Because Ahab humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days.

That the world may see how well I accept of a penitent and serious humiliation, I will so far regard this dejectedness of Ahab, though I know it is not out of sound contrition for his sin or any true grounds of grace, as that I will defer these my threatened evils, during his days, and reserve them for his posterity.