1 Kings 21:3
Good News Translation
"I inherited this vineyard from my ancestors," Naboth replied. "The LORD forbid that I should let you have it!"

New Revised Standard Version
But Naboth said to Ahab, “The LORD forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance.”

Contemporary English Version
Naboth answered, "This vineyard has always been in my family. I won't let you have it."

New American Bible
Naboth said to Ahab, “The LORD forbid that I should give you my ancestral heritage.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

The Lord

Genesis 44:7,17 And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact? . . .

Joshua 22:29 God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from the Lord, and leave off following his steps, by building an altar to offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of the Lord our God, which is erected before his tabernacle.

Joshua 24:16 And the people answered, and said, God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods.

1 Samuel 12:23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

1 Samuel 24:6 And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed.

1 Samuel 26:9-11 And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless? . . .

1 Chronicles 11:19 Saying: God forbid that I should do this in the sight of my God, and should drink the blood of these men: for with the danger of their lives they have brought me the water. And therefore he would not drink. These things did the three most valiant.

Job 27:5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

Romans 3:4,6,31 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. . . .

Romans 6:2,15 God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein? . . .

Romans 7:7,13 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:15 Know you 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!

Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

I should give

Leviticus 25:23 The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Numbers 36:7 Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

Ezekiel 46:18 And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by violence, nor of their possession: but out of his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.

Context
Naboth's Vineyard
2And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. 3Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.4And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the word that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:23
The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Numbers 36:7
Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

Ezekiel 46:18
And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by violence, nor of their possession: but out of his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.

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