Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Naboth
   fruits, "the Jezreelite," was the owner of a portion of ground
   on the eastern slope of the hill of Jezreel (2 Kings 9:25, 26).
   This small "plat of ground" seems to have been all he possessed.
   It was a vineyard, and lay "hard by the palace of Ahab" (1 Kings
   21:1, 2), who greatly coveted it. Naboth, however, refused on
   any terms to part with it to the king. He had inherited it from
   his fathers, and no Israelite could lawfully sell his property
   (Lev. 25:23). Jezebel, Ahab's wife, was grievously offended at
   Naboth's refusal to part with his vineyard. By a crafty and
   cruel plot she compassed his death. His sons also shared his
   fate (2 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 21:19). She then came to Ahab and
   said, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard; for Naboth is not
   alive, but dead." Ahab arose and went forth into the garden
   which had so treacherously and cruelly been acquired, seemingly
   enjoying his new possession, when, lo, Elijah suddenly appeared
   before him and pronounced against him a fearful doom (1 Kings
   21:17-24). Jehu and Bidcar were with Ahab at this time, and so
   deeply were the words of Elijah imprinted on Jehu's memory that
   many years afterwards he refers to them (2 Kings 9:26), and he
   was the chief instrument in inflicting this sentence on Ahab and
   Jezebel and all their house (9:30-37). The house of Ahab was
   extinguished by him. Not one of all his great men and his
   kinsfolk and his priests did Jehu spare (10:11).

     Ahab humbled himself at Elijah's words (1 Kings 21:28, 29),
   and therefore the prophecy was fulfilled not in his fate but in
   that of his son Joram (2 Kings 9:25).

     The history of Naboth, compared with that of Ahab and Jezebel,
   furnishes a remarkable illustration of the law of a retributive
   providence, a law which runs through all history (comp. Ps.
   109:17, 18).


Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's):

Naboth, words; prophecies