2Ki 9:33-37, Psa 79:2-3, 83:10, Jer 9:21-22, 15:3, 16:4-6, 18:21 | TSK | STEP | Throw her down. and on the horses.This terrible mode of punishment appears to have been but rarely used, though we occasionally meet with it during this and subsequent periods. The same punishment, it is well known, obtained among the Romans, who used to throw certain malefactors from the Tarpeian rock. This practice obtains among the Moors at Constantia, a town of Barbary; and is also of frequent occurrence in Persia. and he trode.

2 Kings 9:33-37

Throw her down.

and on the horses.This terrible mode of punishment appears to have been but rarely used, though we occasionally meet with it during this and subsequent periods. The same punishment, it is well known, obtained among the Romans, who used to throw certain malefactors from the Tarpeian rock. This practice obtains among the Moors at Constantia, a town of Barbary; and is also of frequent occurrence in Persia.

and he trode.

26; 7:20; Isa 25:10; La 1:15; Mic 7:10; Mal 4:3; Mt 5:13; Heb 10:29

he did eat.

1Ki 18:41; Es 3:15; Am 6:4

this cursed woman.

1Ki 21:25; Pr 10:7; Isa 65:15; Mt 25:41

she is a king's.

1Ki 16:31

but they found.

Job 31:3; Ec 6:3; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 22:19; 36:30; Ac 12:23

This is.

1Ki 21:23

by his. Heb. by the hand of his.

14:25; Le 8:36; 2Sa 12:25

the carcase.

Ps 83:10; Ec 6:3; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 8:2; 16:4; 22:19; 36:20

Eze 32:23-30

Psalms 79:2-3

Jer 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 34:20

Their.

10; Mt 23:35; Ro 8:36; Re 16:6; 17:6; 18:24

and there, etc.Either there was no friend or relation left to bury them, or none was allowed to perform this last sad office. The despotism of eastern princes often proceeds to such a degree of extravagance as to fill the mind with astonishment and horror. In Morocco, no person dares to bury the body of a malefactor without an order from the emperor; and Windus, speaking of a man who was to have been sawn in two, informs us, that "his body must have remained to be eaten by the dogs, if the emperor had not pardoned him."

141:7; Jer 8:1,2; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; 25:33; 34:20; Re 11:9