1 Kings 21:5

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But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?

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The Kingdoms of Israel and JudahThe divided monarchy, showing the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah.

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Jezreel was a royal city in the fertile Jezreel Valley, where Naboth’s vineyard lay beside Ahab’s palace and where Ahab sulked after Naboth refused to sell it. Samaria, the capital of Israel’s northern kingdom, was the center of Ahab and Jezebel’s rule, from which royal power would be used to seize the vineyard unjustly.

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1 Kings 21:5 mentions Jezreel and Samaria.