21:1 After this the following episode took place. ¹  Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. ²  21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ³  I will pay you silver for it.” ⁴  21:3 But Naboth replied to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.” ⁵ 

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ⁶  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ⁷  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ⁸  and would not eat.