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Commentators observe that these instructions deliberately adhered to the Biblical guidelines of criminal justice so that the public would not suspect foul play.

[2] Johannes Pedersen said that "The story teaches us that the king is bound to respect the proprietary rights of families..."[9] According to rabbinic literature, Naboth's soul was the lying spirit that was permitted to deceive Ahab to his death.

[13][page needed] Francis Andersen observed that "Commentators have seen in the episode a clash of Israelite and Canaanite ideas of kingship, of citizenship, and of property.

The 17th century Baroque pulpit in the late Gothic church of Sint Michiel, Roeselare in Belgium depicts the story of Naboth's Vineyard.

[16] Elijah confronting Ahab and Jezebel in Naboth's Vineyard, (1875) by Sir Frank Dicksee, a gold medal winner from the Royal Academy.

[17] The original is untraced since having been sold at auction in 1919 from the collection of Sir Merton Russell-Cotes; the British Museum holds a black & white print.

Naboth's Vineyard: Or, The Innocent Traytor, (1679) a mock-Biblical verse satire by the Jacobite peer John Caryll whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London.

[30] La vigne de Naboth: pièce en cinq actes et un épilogue, (1981) by the Belgian composer André Laporte.

[39] Sins of Jezebel, (1953) a drama film directed by the Austrian-born American director Reginald Le Borg; Ludwig Donath played Naboth.

The Confederation of Canada, celebrated July 1, 1867, was largely motivated by Canadians' fear that the United States would annex and absorb these northern British colonies.

A brilliant future would certainly await us were it not for those wretched Yankees who hunger & thirst for Naboth's field - War will come some day between England & the United States.

'"[41] Naboth's Vineyard, (1870) a speech by the Congressman Charles Sumner strongly opposing President Ulysses S. Grant's proposed annexation of the Dominican Republic (then called San Domingo).

[42] Lt Gen Sir William Butler undertook a visit of South Africa in 1907 and reported his findings as From Naboth's Vineyard.