Naboth couldn't sell his vineyard to King Ahab. He explained as well as he could that to sell the vineyard would be to exchange the promises and inheritance of God for the favour and money of a king. Naboth couldn't sell the vineyard.
The cost to Naboth was his life. Jezebel and Ahab plotted a great blasphemy to destroy Naboth and seize his land, but even had he known what it would cost him, Naboth could not sell the Lord's promise and inheritance.
The act was not concealed from the eyes of the Lord. Even as Ahab went to possess the vineyard, the Lord's prophet Elijah journeyed to meet him with words of awful judgment.
As we consider this story, we consider the cost of being faithful to the Lord's promises and our inheritance of faith. Naboth encourages us to hold fast our 'vineyard' even when the powers that be come with offers to buy or trade away our faith, or threaten to abuse and destroy those who will not surrender to them.
Naboth encourages us to endure suffering and not give up the inheritance that the Lord has granted us.
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