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 36:7So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
• Lev 25:23The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
• Ezek 46:18Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
• Rom 3:4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
• 1 Cor 6:15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
• Josh 22:29God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
• Josh 24:16And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
• Rom 3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
• Rom 6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Rom 7:13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
• 1 Chr 11:19And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
• Gen 44:17And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
• Gen 44:7And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
• Rom 6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
• 1 Sam 12:23Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
• Gal 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Rom 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Rom 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• 1 Sam 24:6And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
• Job 27:5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
• 1 Sam 26:9–11And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?

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