The Days of Ahab

Class #4Naboth's Vineyard

A Garden of Herbs

Only two occurrences:

- What Ahab wanted to turn Naboth's vineyard into (1 Kings 21)

- What the land of Egypt was likened to (Deuteronomy 11)

Contrast Between Egypt and Israel

Egypt

Receives no rain

Need human ingenuity to water the land

Israel

Receives rain

God provides the means to water the land

The Parable of Naboth of Jezreel

Naboth = “fruits”

Jezreel = “God sows”

- We shall be fruitful when God sows the seed and provides the rain

Jezreel

“And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families. And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem” (Joshua 19:17-18)

Our Inheritance

“At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.” (Jeremiah 3:17-18)

Naboth’s Death

• Innocent man murdered by the wicked

• Hated of his neighbours

• Elders of the city involved

• Wanted to remove his inheritance

• Two witnesses called

• But they are false witnesses

• Perpetrators divinely judged