Melachim I 21 מלכים א כ״א

After these things [this occured.] Navos, the Yizreili had a vineyard, which was located in Yizrel, next to the palace of Achov, the king of Shomron.

Achov spoke to Navos, saying, “Give me your vineyard, and I will have it for a vegetable garden, for it is close, next to my house. I will give you as a replacement a vineyard that is better than it; or if it pleases you, I will give you an amount of silver the worth of this one.”

And Navos said to Achov, “I am forbidden from Adonoy to give the inheritance of my fathers to you.”

And Achov came to his house dejected and angry over the matter that Navos, the Yizreili, had spoken to him, and said “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he [Achov] lay down on his bed, turned away his face and would not eat bread.

Ezevel, his wife came to him and spoke to him; “What happened that your spirit is dejected, and you do not eat bread?”

And he spoke to her [the following;] “Because I spoke to Navos, the Yizreili, and I said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or if you want, I will give you a vineyard instead of it;’ and he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

And his wife, Ezevel, said to him, “Are you now acting in a manner befitting kingship over Yisroel? Get up eat bread and let your heart feel good. I will give you the vineyard of Navos the Yizreili.

She wrote letters, in the name of Achov and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were in his city, who sat with Navos.

She wrote in the letters saying, “Proclaim a day of fasting, and seat Navos at the head of the people.

Then seat two wicked men opposite him, and let them testify, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him, and he will die.”

The men of his city took action [together with] the elders and nobles who lived in his city, [and did] as Ezevel sent them, as was written in the letters that she had sent to them.

They proclaimed a day of fasting and sat Navos at the head of the people.

The two wicked men came and sat opposite him. The wicked men testified against Navos in front of the people saying, “Navos cursed God and the king.” They took him outside the city and stoned him with stones and he died.

They sent [a message] to Ezevel saying, “Navos was stoned and he is dead.”

When Ezevel heard that Navos was stoned and that he died, Ezevel said to Achov, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Navos, the Yizreili, that he refused to give you for money, for Navos is not alive for he is dead.”

And when Achov heard that Navos was dead, Achov arose to go down to the vineyard of Navos, the Yizreili, to take possession of it.

There came a word of Adonoy to Eliyahu, the Tishbi, saying.

“Arise and go down and meet Achov, the king of Yisroel who is [now] in Shomron. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Navos where he went down to possess it.

Speak to him saying, ‘So has Adonoy said, “Have you murdered and also inherited?’” And speak to him, saying ‘So has Adonoy said, “In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Navos, so will the dogs lick your blood, even your [blood.]’”

And Achov said to Eliyahu, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” “And he [Eliyohu] said, “I have found [you], because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the eyes of Adonoy.

Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and I will obliterate what is left after you. I will excise from Achov every male, and [destroy] things that are stored [inside] and things [livestock] that are left [in the open]; [this will be done] in Yisroel [publically].

I will give your house [the same fate] as the house of Yerovom ben Nevot, and as the house of Basha ben Achiya; because of the anger you provoked, and caused Yisroel to sin.”

And also concerning Ezevel, Adonoy spoke, saying, “The dogs will eat Ezevel in the valley of Yizreil.

Those of Achov who die in the city will be eaten by dogs and those who die in the field will be eaten by the birds of the sky.

But there was none the likes of Achov who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of Adonoy; who was instigated by Ezevel, his wife.

He acted most abominably to follow the idols, as practiced by the Amorim that Adonoy expelled from before the Bnei Yisroel.

And when Achov heard these words he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on flesh and he fasted. He lay on sackcloth and walked barefoot.

And the word of Adonoy came to Eliyah, the Tishbi saying.

“Have you seen that Achov has humbled himself before Me? Since he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days. In the days of his son, I will bring the evil on his house.