8. So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him.
9. In those letters she wrote:‘Proclaim a day of fasting and give Naboth a prominent seat among the people.
10. But put two scoundrels opposite him and get them to bring charges that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.’
11. So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them.
12. They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.