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Naboth’s Vineyard

¹Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. ²Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
³But Naboth replied, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my ancestors.”
⁴So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors.” He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.
⁵His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, “Why are you so sullen? Why won’t you eat?”
⁶He answered her, “Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, ‘Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’ ”
⁷Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I’ll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
⁸So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him. ⁹In those letters she wrote:
“Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people. ¹⁰But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them bring charges that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.”
¹¹So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them. ¹²They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people. ¹³Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death. ¹⁴Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
¹⁵As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.” ¹⁶When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth’s vineyard.
¹⁷Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite: ¹⁸“Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it. ¹⁹Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’ ”
²⁰Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!”
“I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord. ²¹He says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.⚓ ²²I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have aroused my anger and have caused Israel to sin.’
²³“And also concerning Jezebel the Lord says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of⚓ Jezreel.’
²⁴“Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.”
²⁵(There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife. ²⁶He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel.)
²⁷When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
²⁸Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite: ²⁹“Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”

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Nabôt Cuchĩt Cỗ Tễ Nưong Nho

¹Nabôt la cũai tễ vil Ye-triel; án bữn muoi ntốq nưong nho pỡ vil Ye-triel cheq dống Ahap, puo cruang Sa-mari. ²Bữn muoi tangái puo Ahap pai chóq Nabôt neq: “Sễq mới chiau nưong nho mới yỗn cứq, yuaq nưong ki tớt cớp dống cứq. Khân mới yoc, cứq ễ chiau nưong o hỡn pláih nưong mới; ma khân mới ễ chếq, ki cứq chỡng.”
³Nabôt ta‑ỡi: “Nưong nâi mun tễ dỡi achúc achiac hếq; Yiang Sursĩ tỡ yỗn hếq chiau nưong nâi yỗn anhia.”
⁴Puo Ahap mut chu dống cớp sâng ũan lứq tễ santoiq Nabôt pai. Án bếq tâng cachơng to moat chu ratâng, tỡ bữn cha ntrớu. ⁵Yê-sabel lacuoi án blớh neq: “Ntrớu ca táq yỗn mới cỡt ngua, cớp tỡ rơi chi-cha?”
⁶Chơ puo Ahap ta‑ỡi án: “Cỗ tian cứq táq ntỡng cớp Nabôt tễ tỗp Ye-triel. Cứq sễq chỡng nưong nho tễ án, ma án tỡ ễq chếq yỗn cứq; cứq ễ yỗn nưong nho ntốq canŏ́h ễn yỗn án, ma án tỡ bữn pruam sĩa.”
⁷Yê-sabel ta‑ỡi: “Mới la lứq puo, ma tỡ cỡn? Mới yuor tễ cachơng bếq, chơ táq yỗn mứt pahỡm bũi óh cớp cha dỗi. Cứq toâp ễ ĩt nưong nho Nabôt yỗn mới!”
⁸Ngkíq án chĩc muoi liang thỡ, cớp kĩq ramứh puo Ahap dếh catếh tếc chóq tâng thỡ ki; chơ án cơiq yỗn cũai ayững atĩ puo cớp cũai sốt tâng vil Ye-triel hỡ. ⁹Tâng thỡ ki án chĩc santoiq neq: “Anhia pau yỗn máh cũai tâng vil nâi ót sana muoi tangái, chơ arô máh cũai proai yỗn toâq rôm parnơi, cớp yỗn Nabôt tacu tâng cachơng bữn chớc. ¹⁰Dững bar náq cũai táq khễng-lễng toâq apớt án, pai án báih acrieiq Yiang Sursĩ cớp puo hỡ. Chơ dững aloŏh án yáng tiah vil; moâm ki cóq tám tamáu chóq án yỗn cuchĩt.”
¹¹Máh cũai ayững atĩ puo, cớp máh cũai sốt tâng vil Ye-triel táq puai santoiq Yê-sabel ớn. ¹²Chơ tỗp alới pau yỗn ót sana muoi tangái, arô máh cũai proai toâq rôm parnơi, cớp yỗn Nabôt tacu tâng cachơng bữn chớc. ¹³Chơ alới bar náq ca táq khễng-lễng ki toâq apớt án yáng moat cũai clứng neq: “Nabôt lóc acrieiq Yiang Sursĩ cớp puo hái.”
Ngkíq tỗp alới dững aloŏh Nabôt yáng tiah vil cớp tám tamáu chóq án toau cuchĩt. ¹⁴Moâm ki, tỗp alới cơiq parnai atỡng Yê-sabel neq: “Nabôt khoiq cuchĩt chơ.”
¹⁵Toâq Yê-sabel sâng ngkíq, án pỡq atỡng puo Ahap neq: “Nabôt khoiq cuchĩt chơ. Pỡq, mới pỡq ĩt ndỡm cutễq nưong nho Nabôt, án ca tỡ ễq chếq yỗn mới!”
¹⁶Tữ puo Ahap sâng ngkíq, chơ án pỡq ĩt ndỡm nưong nho ki cỡt khong án ễn.
¹⁷Chơ Yiang Sursĩ atỡng Ê-li cũai tang bỗq án tễ vil Tit-bê neq: ¹⁸“Cóq mới pỡq ramóh Ahap puo Sa-mari. Mới bữn ramóh án tâng nưong nho Nabôt, yuaq án khoiq cheng ĩt cỡt khong án ễn. ¹⁹Cóq mới atỡng án neq: Cứq Yiang Sursĩ blớh tễ ŏ́c nâi: Mới khoiq cachĩt cũai cớp ĩt nheq mun án hỡ, lứq ma tỡ bữn? Cớp cóq mới atỡng án ễn neq: Pỡ ntốq acho yễl aham Nabôt, nỡ‑ra acho yễl aham mới ễn.”
²⁰Chơ puo Ahap pai chóq Ê-li neq: “Mới khoiq puai cứq satỡm tỡ, cũai par‑ũal ơi?”
Ê-li ta‑ỡi loah: “Ơq, mới khoiq chiau dỡi tamoong mới yỗn táq ranáq sâuq choâng moat Yiang Sursĩ. ²¹Yuaq ngkíq, Yiang Sursĩ pai chóq mới neq: ‘Cứq ễ dững ŏ́c cuchĩt pứt atoâq pỡ mới; cứq ễ pupứt mới yỗn thréc, cớp cachĩt nheq máh cũai samiang tâng dống sũ mới, dếh cũai thâu cớp cũai póng hỡ. ²²Dống sũ mới cỡt samoât dống sũ Yê-rabũam con samiang Nê-bat tê; cớp cỡt samoât dống sũ Basa con samiang Ahi-cha tê, yuaq mới mandốq ễq cứq cutâu mứt lứq na mới radững tỗp I-sarel táq lôih.’ ²³Yiang Sursĩ pai tễ ranáq Yê-sabel táq neq: ‘Acho bữn cáiq cha tỗ Yê-sabel tâng vil Ye-triel.’ ²⁴Máh sễm ai mới ca cuchĩt tâng vil, bữn acho toâq cáiq cha sac alới; cũai aléq cuchĩt yáng tiah vil, bữn calang toâq tot cha sac alới.”
²⁵Lứq tỡ bữn noau chiau dỡi tamoong yỗn táq ranáq sâuq choâng moat Yiang Sursĩ machớng puo Ahap khoiq táq. Dũ ranáq án khoiq táq, la cỗ Yê-sabel lacuoi án mandốq yỗn án táq. ²⁶Án táq ranáq lôih ntâng lứq na án cucốh rup ariang tỗp Amô-rit cucốh. Tỗp nâi la cũai Yiang Sursĩ khoiq tuih aloŏh bo cũai I-sarel ntôm toâq.
²⁷Toâq Ê-li pai sốt chơ, puo Ahap háq au, chơ tũot aloŏh, cớp sớp aroâiq acrơiq. Án tỡ bữn cha ntrớu, dếh bếq tâng aroâiq acrơiq, cớp sâng ngua lứq tâng mứt pahỡm.
²⁸Chơ Yiang Sursĩ atỡng Ê-li neq: ²⁹“Mới hữm ma tỡ yũah Ahap ngin kho yáng moat cứq? Cỗ án ngin kho ki, cứq tỡ bữn dững ŏ́c cuchĩt pứt atoâq pỡ án, toau sốt dỡi tamoong án. Ma cứq ễ dững ranáq ralốh-ralái nâi atoâq pỡ con samiang án ễn.”