A vineyard ... in Jezreel — The name Jezreel is applied in Scripture not merely to the town (1 Kings 18:46) but also to the vall…

Which was in Jezreel.—The Septuagint omits these words and makes the vineyard to be hard by the threshing-floor of Ah…

And it came to pass, after these things
After the two battles with the king of Syria, in which Ahab was victorious, …

Naboth, perhaps, had been pleased that he had a vineyard situated so near the palace, but the situation proved fatal to him. Many people's possessi…