1 Kings 21:8-15

New Catholic Bible

⁸ So she wrote some letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. ⁹ In the letters she wrote, “Proclaim a fast, and have Naboth sit in a prominent place among the people. ¹⁰ But place two sons of Belial opposite him to bear false witness, saying, ‘You blasphemed God and the king.’ Then carry him out and stone him to death.”

¹¹ So the men in his city, the elders, and the nobles who lived in his city did what had been written in the letters that had been sent to them. ¹² They proclaimed a fast and had Naboth sit in a prominent place among the people. ¹³ Two men then came in, sons of Belial, and they sat opposite him. The sons of Belial bore witness before the people saying, “Naboth blasphemed God and the king.” They carried him out of the city and they stoned him to death.

¹⁴ They then sent word to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned to death.” ¹⁵ As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Get up, and take possession of the vineyard that Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you. Naboth is no longer alive; he is dead.”