a worthy Israelite, the owner of a plot of ground and a vineyard on the eastern slope of Mount Gilboa, Palestine. This fair possession attracted the covetous eye (Kings xxi) of Ahab, whose royal palace stood hard by. King Ahab offered his subject another and a better field in exchange, but the sturdy commoner refused to part with "the inheritance of my fathers." Jezebel fastened a lying accusation of blasphemy upon Naboth, as a result of which he and his two sons were stoned to death. But no sooner had Ahab gone down to take possession of the coveted vineyard than Elijah confronted him with: "In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine," and "the dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel." The story of Naboth is used to illustrate the tendency of the powerful to overreach the weak.