Discovery Box1 Kings 21:2-4 
Context21:2 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
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.”
