<p class="bodytext">Then Elijah told Ahab, &#8220;Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.&#8221;<n id="1" />

But he replied, &#8220;I can&#8217;t go back with you<n id="1" /> or eat and drink<n id="2" /> with you in this place.

The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, &#8220;Get up and eat, for otherwise you won&#8217;t be able to make the journey.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, &#8220;Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?&#8221;

But the prophet said to the king, &#8220;Even if you were to give me half your possessions,<n id="1" /> I could not go with you and eat and drink<n id="2" /> in this place.

He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;<n id="1" /> the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

<p class="bodytext">So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.&#8221;<n id="2" /> He lay down on his bed, pouted,<n id="3" /> and would not eat.

His wife Jezebel said to him, &#8220;You are the king of Israel!<n id="1" /> Get up, eat some food, and have a good time.<n id="2" /> I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.&#8221;p>