KJV King James Version
Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
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1 Kings 21:14
Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
WEB World English Bible
Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”
ASV American Standard Version
Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they send unto Jezebel, saying, ‘Naboth was stoned, and is dead.’
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 21
11 And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
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2 Samuel 11:14-24And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah.Ecclesiastes 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.
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