Then Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise authority over Israel! Arise, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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That they may successfully do evil with both hands—
The prince asks for gifts,
The judge seeks a (A)bribe,
And the great man utters his evil desire;
So they scheme together.

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Woe to Evildoers

Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And [a]work out evil on their beds!
At (A)morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.
They (B)covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:1 Plan

19 And because of the majesty that He gave him, (A)all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he (B)executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. 20 (C)But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. 21 Then he was (D)driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, (E)till he [a]knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:21 Recognized

Where the word of a king is, there is power;
And (A)who may say to him, “What are you doing?”

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The Uselessness of Selfish Toil

Then I returned and considered all the (A)oppression that is done under the sun:

And look! The tears of the oppressed,
But they have no comforter—
[a]On the side of their oppressors there is power,
But they have no comforter.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 4:1 Lit. At the hand

31 A [a]greyhound,
A male goat also,
And [b]a king whose troops are with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:31 Or perhaps strutting rooster, lit. girded of waist
  2. Proverbs 30:31 A Jewish tradition a king against whom there is no uprising

15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.” 16 So it was, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

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And he said to him, “Why are you, the king’s son, becoming thinner day after day? Will you not tell me?”

Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

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14 And (A)he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.

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Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,

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