The purpose of this fast was both to create prejudice against Naboth, whom the elders assumed had disgraced the town, and at the same time to give …

Proclaim a fast. —This might have been intended only to cover all that was to be so foully done with a cloak of religious…

And she wrote in the letters, saying, proclaim a fast
Pretending fears of some dreadful calamity coming upon the nat…

When, instead of a suitable helper, a man has an agent for Satan in the form of an artful, unprincipled, yet beloved wife, fatal effects may be exp…