1 Kings 21:3

Naboth refuses, saying the Lord forbids him to give up his fathers' inheritance. His refusal is an act of faithfulness to God's law, not mere stubbornness.

Cross-references · 21

• Num 36:7No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
• Lev 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
• Ezek 46:18The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
• Rom 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
• 1 Cor 6:15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
• Josh 22:29Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God, which stands before His tabernacle.”
• Josh 24:16The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!
• Rom 3:6Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
• Rom 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
• Rom 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
• 1 Chr 11:19saying, “Far be it from me, my God, to do this! How can I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” Because they had brought it at the risk of their lives, David refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
• Gen 44:17But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
• Gen 44:7“Why does my lord say these things?” they asked. “Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.
• Rom 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!
• 1 Sam 12:23As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way.
• Gal 6:14But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Rom 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
• Rom 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
• 1 Sam 24:6So he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed. May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.”
• Job 27:5I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
• 1 Sam 26:9–11But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

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