Verse | Translation | Text |
1Ki 21:3 | Strong Concordance | And Naboth [05022] said [0559] to Ahab [0256], The LORD [03068] forbid [02486] it me, that I should give [05414] the inheritance [05159] of my fathers [01] unto thee. |
King James | And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The Lord forbid it me - Or, "Yahweh forbid it me." Naboth, as a worshipper of Yahweh, not of Baal, considers it would be wrong for him to comply with the king's request, as contrary to the Law (margin). His was not a mere refusal arising out of a spirit of sturdy independence, or one based upon the sentiment which attaches men to ancestral estates. |