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Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you my ancestral heritage.”[a]

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  1. 21:3 Heritage: Hebrew naḥalah. Naboth is unwilling to sell or exchange his vineyard. According to the Israelite system of land tenure and distribution, land was held in common within a social unit. The ancestral naḥalah was not private property, to be alienated at will.