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By Robert Rutaagi
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One dismal day,
Ahab, the king of Israel,
And victim of idolatry,
From his palace in Samaria,
Cravingly lavished Naboth’s vineyard
And greatly desired to possess it,
As his and Jezebel’s lusted property.
There he stood or sat or sauntered,
Surveying his palatial environs,
East- West – North – South -inside.
Before him was his kingdom:
People to and fro wherever;
Human shelters, birds of air…
Gardens and vineyards…
But Naboth’s vineyard stood out
Above and beyond his eyes could admire.
Confident like an emperor,
Supercilious like a god,
Who expects automatic obedience,
The king imperiously craved the damn thing.
Frantically, beckoning his servant, Ahab asked:
“Whose vineyard is that over there?’’
‘’Naboth’s, my King,’’ the servant replied.
Like adulterous King David was,
When, from his palace, he decried nude Bathsheba,
So did Ahab crave for Naboth’s vineyard.
Allured by such dominant human desires,
In such a hopeless situation,
Ahab pondered and reflected,
About this conquering desire,
And, like David was by Uriah’s wife,
So he was paradoxically lured
By Naboth’s Vineyard.
Like a Centenarian,
Who dares to run a marathon,
Or a Sexagenarian,
Who dares to climb Mt Everest,
Or a blind, dumb and deaf,
Who avers to see a helicopter in the sky,
And cocks his ears to hear its engine ravings,
So was this helpless king, paradoxically,
Obsessed by palatial idolatrous desires.
As King Ahab sauntered around his palace,
Hankering over his subject’s ancestral inheritance,
With the confidence of an entitled Monarch,
He surrendered to imperious odium of greed.
He entertained evil heart like Haman did for a mere rank
From the throne of King Xerxes,
But ended up on the very gallows he prepared for Mordecai.
Likewise, Ahab, Jezebel and David attracted God’s holy anger.
1Kings 21:1-21; 2Sam 11; Est. 3-10 [NIV].
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