Ahab

likewise that king Ahab, the husband of Jezebel, guilty of idolatry and of the blood of Naboth, earned pardon under the name of penitence;

easy to be bent too by Hezekiah's weeping, and by Ahab, the husband of Jezebel, beseeching that the blood of Naboth be forgiven, and by David acknowledging his sin to indulge at once — preferring, namely, the repentance of the sinner to his death, out of the affection of mercy.

And there is a lying spirit, which, coming upon the false prophets, deceived Ahab.

Naboth being prosecuted quia maledixerat regi, king Ahab took possession of his effects.

In this cause concerning a girl of Auvergne it was, that an advocate-general referred to Ahab, king of a part of Palestine, who confiscated the vineyard of Naboth, after assassinating the owner with the sword of justice:

for she was of the family of Ahab.

Therefore if he thinks proper to take away by a premature or violent death the children of Achan, Saul, Jeroboam or Ahab, he is exercising over them the right of sovereignty, as well as that of punishment;

It has been suggested, I think by Renan, that the story of Ahab and Naboth, as we have it, is a sacerdotal libel, and Ahab was an enlightened ruler who tried to introduce ‘expropriation pour cause d’utilité publiquè’ to a generation too backward to understand it.

When, after his transgression and idolatry and the slaying of Naboth for his vineyard's sake at Jezebel's instigation, Elijah had reproached him—"As you have killed and taken possession of the inheritance:

You will communicate also with the homicide, because Ahab too blotted out the blood of Naboth by entreaty, and David purged the slaughter of Uriah, together with the adultery that was its cause, by confession.