person
Naboth
נָבוֹת
- verses
- 18
- first named
- 1 Kings 21:1
- last named
- 2 Kings 9:21
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Naboth?
Naboth was a Jezreelite who owned a vineyard adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Israel. His story, recorded in 1Kings 21 and 2Kings 9, is a tragic account of injustice and the abuse of power.
King Ahab desired to acquire Naboth's vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, offering to purchase it or provide a better vineyard in exchange. However, Naboth refused, stating that he could not give up the inheritance of his ancestors (1Ki.21.1-3). This refusal greatly displeased Ahab, who sulked and refused to eat.
Ahab's wife, Queen Jezebel, learning of the situation, devised a wicked plan to secure the vineyard. She wrote letters in Ahab's name, ordering the elders and nobles of Jezreel to proclaim a fast and seat Naboth in a prominent place. Then, they were to have two scoundrels accuse Naboth of cursing God and the king, leading to his execution by stoning (1Ki.21.8-14).
The plan was carried out, and Naboth was unjustly killed. After his death, Ahab took possession of the vineyard (1Ki.21.15-16). However, the prophet Elijah confronted Ahab, pronouncing God's judgment on him and his household for their wickedness (1Ki.21.17-24).
Years later, as prophesied by Elijah, Ahab's son King Joram was killed by Jehu in the same plot of land that had belonged to Naboth (2Ki.9.21-26), fulfilling the divine retribution for the unjust murder of Naboth and the seizure of his ancestral property.
Naboth's story illustrates the importance of justice, the sanctity of ancestral inheritance, and the consequences of abusing power and disregarding God's laws. It also demonstrates the role of prophets in speaking truth to power and pronouncing judgment on those who commit evil.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Ahab6 events
- Naboth Vineyard2 events
- People1 event
- Giving1 event
- Testimony1 event
- Stoning1 event
- Jezebel1 event
- Seating1 event
- Taking Out1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Naboth is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
18 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (15) and 2 Kings (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 18, across 2 books. The name is written 22 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources