But Naboth would not sell his vineyard or exchange it for another, because it had belonged to his family for a very long time. His refusal made Ahab so angry and disappointed that he threw himself upon his bed, and refused to eat or even to speak. In this state Jezebel found him, and at once began to comfort him, telling him he should have his vineyard. The first thing this wicked woman did was to bribe witnesses to say that Naboth had spoken evil of God and also of the king. Naboth was condemned and stoned to death. Ahab then took possession of the vineyard, and as he was walking in it one day, he saw Elijah coming towards him. Tremblingly the wicked king exclaimed, _"Hast thou found me, O my enemy?"_ Elijah replied that he had sought him, not because he was his enemy, but to tell him he was to be punished, because all his life he had done wrong. [Image: FALSE WITNESSES TESTIFIED AGAINST NABOTH.] Ahab was killed in battle three years afterwards, and later, Jezebel met with a terrible death, for she was thrown from a window by her own servants, and crushed to death on the stones below. [Image: THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL.] When the time came for Elijah's work on earth to cease, he took Elisha with him to a place called Gilgal. They crossed the River Jordan in a manner as wonderful as that of the passage of the Israelites into Canaan, many years before. Elijah struck the waters with his mantle and they parted, leaving; a pathway over which the two walked in safety. [Image: "ELIJAH STRUCK THE WATERS WITH HIS MANTLE."] There, while these two men of God were talking together, a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared, and parted them. Elijah was swept up into the chariot, and was carried away into heaven. But before he disappeared, his mantle fell from him. Elisha took it up, and with it received the power of performing miracles which God had given to Elijah, the man who did not die. [Image: "ELIJAH WAS SWEPT UP INTO THE CHARIOT."] End of Project Gutenberg's The Man Who Did Not Die, by J. H. Willard