| Verse | Translation | Text |
| 1Ki 21:11 | King James | 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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The ready submission of the elders and nobles implies a deep moral degradation among the Israelites, the fruit of their lapse into idolatry. |