Geneva Bible Notes: 1 Kings 21

1 Kings 21:1 (!) Jesebel commandeth to kil Naboth, for the Vineyard, that he refused to sel to Ahab.

1 Kings 21:1 (/) Or, at this time.

1 Kings 21:2 (a) Thogh Ahabs tyrannie be condemned by the holy Spirit, yet he was not so rigorous that he wolde take from another man his right without ful recompence.

1 Kings 21:4 (b) Thus the wicked consider not what is just & lawful, but fret inwardely, when they can not haue their inordinate appetites satisfied.

1 Kings 21:7 (c) As thogh she said, Thou knowest not what it is to reigne, Commande, and intreat not.

1 Kings 21:7 (/) Ebr, let thine heart be mery.

1 Kings 21:9 (d) For then they vsed to inquire of mens fautes: for none cold fast truly that were notorious sinners.

1 Kings 21:11 (e) Thus the worldelings contrary to Gods commandment, who willeth not to consent to the sheding of innocent blood, obey rather the wicked commandements of princes then the just Lawes of God.

1 Kings 21:13 (/) Ebr. blesse.

1 Kings 21:15 (f) This example of monstreos crueltie the holy Gost leaueth to vs to the intent that we shulde abhorre all tyrannie, and specially in them, whome nature & kinde shulde moue to be pitiful and inclined to mercie.

1 Kings 21:19 (g) Doest thou thinke to haue anie aduantage by murthering of an innocent?

1 Kings 21:19 (h) This was fulfilled in Joram his sonne, as {2Kin, 9,25}

1 Kings 21:19 (!) Eliiah reproueth Ahab, and he repenteth.

1 Kings 21:23 (/) Or, fortresse., or, possession.

1 Kings 21:25 (i) By the wicked counsel of his wife, he became a vile idolater and cruel murtherer, as one that gaue him selfe wholly to serue sinne.

1 Kings 21:27 (k) In token of mourning or as some read, barefooted.

1 Kings 21:27 (/) Ebr. his flesh.

1 Kings 21:29 (l) Meaning, in Jorams time, {2Kin. 9:26}