Naboth

biblical figure

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Jezebel

  • Gustave Doré: The Death of Jezebel
    In Jezebel

    …it belonged to a commoner, Naboth of Jezreel (an ancient city at the foot of Mount Gilboa, probably the site of the modern Israeli settlement of the same name). When Naboth refused to part with his vineyard (“the inheritance of my fathers”), Jezebel falsely charged him with blaspheming “God and…

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