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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: geode00 who wrote (51563)7/4/2005 9:15:50 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
The earliest one [eminent domain] I can recall happened between 875 and 855 B.C., when King Ahab took a vineyard next to his palace, according to the Old Testament book of 1 Kings.
Ahab wanted the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. Naboth wouldn't sell it to the king because the land had been in the family for so long.
Ahab's wife, Jezebel, told Ahab not to worry, she would deliver the vineyard. "And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." (1 Kings 21:7)
She issued letters in Ahab's name, plotting a false accusation of blasphemy against Naboth. It led to his execution by stoning.
The land was left for taking, and the transaction became one of the first recorded incidents of eminent domain.

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