1 Kings 21:2-4

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, 1  I will pay you silver for it.” 2  21:3 But Naboth replied to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.” 3 

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 4  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 5  He lay down on his bed, pouted, 6  and would not eat.

1 tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

2 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”

3 tn Heb “Far be it from me, by the Lord, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.”

4 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”

5 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”

6 tn Heb “turned away his face.”