⁹ She wrote in the letters saying, “Proclaim a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. ¹⁰ Then seat two sons of Belial before him, and let them testify against him saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

¹¹ So the men of his city—the elders and the nobles who lived in his city—did just as Jezebel had bid them, just as was written in the letters that she had sent to them.