Naboth
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The man whose murder is counted among Ahab's crimes.
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.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Biblical figure whose vineyard was seized by King Ahab after a false accusation, cited by Talon as a scriptural analogy in the Canillac case.
Naboth being prosecuted quia maledixerat regi, king Ahab took possession of his effects.
There was certainly no analogy between the vineyard of Naboth and the inheritance of Mlle.
The Genius of the Common Law
Biblical figure whose vineyard is at the centre of the Ahab narrative discussed in the footnote.
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.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Owner of the vineyard whose murder by Ahab and Jezebel is the occasion of Elijah's rebuke.
in the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick yours also"—he abased himself and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and slept in sackcloth.
De Pudicitia
Victim of Ahab's judicial murder in the biblical narrative.
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.