2Ki 9 | TSK | STEP | Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth-gilead. The prophet having done his message, flees. Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth. Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem. Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs. one.The Jews say that this was Jonah, the prophet, the son of Amittai. the children. See on Gird up thy loins.As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing, it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in their work or on a journey. box of oil. Ramoth-gilead.

2 Kings 9

1 Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth-gilead.

4 The prophet having done his message, flees.

11 Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth.

27 Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem.

30 Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs.

one.The Jews say that this was Jonah, the prophet, the son of Amittai.

the children.

4:1; 6:1-3

See on

1Ki 20:35

Gird up thy loins.As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing, it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in their work or on a journey.

4:29; 1Ki 18:46; Jer 1:17; Lu 12:35-37; 1Pe 1:13

box of oil.

1Sa 10:1; 16:1; 1Ki 1:39

Ramoth-gilead.

8:28,29; De 4:1,3; 1Ki 22:4,20

Jehu.Jehoram having retired from the army, Jehu seems to have been left first in command, having been long employed by Ahab's family.

14; 1Ki 19:16,17

among his brethern.

5,11

inner chamber. Heb. chamber in a chamber.

1Ki 20:30; 22:25; *margins

pour it.

Ex 29:7; Le 8:12; 1Sa 16:13; 1Ki 19:16

I have anointed.

8:13; 1Sa 9:16; 15:1,17; 16:12; Ps 75:6,7; Pr 8:15,16; Jer 27:5-7

Da 2:1; 4:35; 5:18; Joh 19:10,11

and flee.

1Sa 16:2; Mt 2:13; 10:16

the young man.{Hannäâr hannavee,} not as some would render, "the servant of the prophet," but, as correctly rendered by our venerable translators, "the young man, the prophet;" for [hn`r,] hannäâr, "the young man," is not in {regimine,} but in {appositione,} with [hnby',] {hannavee,} "the prophet."

I have an errand.

Jud 3:19

he arose.

Ac 23:18,19

I have anointed.

3; 1Ki 1:34; 19:16; 2Ch 22:7; Ps 2:6; *marg:

Ps 75:6; Isa 45:1; Da 2:21; 4:17,32; 5:20,21

over the people.

1Ki 3:8; 10:9; 14:7; 16:2

I may avenge.

De 32:35,43; Ps 94:1-7; Mt 23:35; Lu 18:7,8; Ro 12:19; 13:4

Heb 10:30; Re 6:9,10; 18:20; 19:2

at the hand.

32-37; 1Ki 18:4; 21:15,21,25

I will cut off.

1Ki 14:10,11; 21:21,22

him that pisseth.

1Sa 25:22

him that is shut up.

14:26; De 32:36

like the house.

1Ki 14:10,11; 15:29; 21:22

and like the house.

1Ki 16:3-5,11,12

the dogs.

35,36; 1Ki 21:23; Jer 22:19

he opened.

3; Jud 3:26

Is all well.

17,19,22; 4:26; 5:21

this mad fellow.It is probable there was something peculiar in the young prophet's manner and address, similar to the vehement actions sometimes used by the prophets when under the Divine influence, which caused the bystanders to use this contemptuous language.

Isa 59:15; *marg:

Jer 29:26; Ho 9:7; Mr 3:21; Joh 10:20; Ac 17:18; 26:24; 1Co 4:10

2Co 5:13

Thus and thus.

6-10

and took every.The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of Æschylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way.

Mt 21:7,8; Mr 11:7,8

on the top.The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Jud 9:46, 51,) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs, (Ne 3:15.) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city.

blew with trumpets.

2Sa 15:10; 1Ki 1:34,39; Ps 47:5-7; 98:6

is king. Heb. reigneth.

conspired.

31; 8:12-15; 10:9; 15:30; 1Ki 15:27; 16:7,9,16

kept Ramoth-gilead.

8:28; 1Ki 22:3

Joram. Heb. Jehoram. returned.

8:29; 2Ch 22:6

had given. Heb. smote. none go forth. Heb. no escaper goforth.

1Sa 27:9-11

And Ahaziah.

8:28,29; 2Ch 22:6,7

a watchman.

2Sa 13:34; 18:24; Isa 21:6-9,11,12; 56:10; 62:6; Eze 33:2-9

Ac 20:26-31

Take an horseman.

7:14

Is it peace.

19; 1Sa 16:4; 17:22; 1Ki 2:15; Lu 10:5,6

What hast thou to do.

19,22; Isa 48:22; 59:8; Jer 16:5; Ro 3:17

driving. or, marching.

Hab 1:6; 3:12

for he driveth.

10:16; Ec 9:10; Isa 54:16; Da 11:44

furiously. Heb. in madness.

Make ready. Heb. bind.

Joram.

met. Heb. found.

the portion of Naboth.

25; 1Ki 21:1-7,15,18,19

Is it peace.

What peace.

18; Isa 57:19-21

the whoredoms.

1Ki 16:30-33; 18:4; 19:1,2; 21:8-10,25; Na 3:4; Re 2:20-23; 17:4,5

Re 18:3,23

There is treachery.

11:14; 2Ch 23:13

drew a bow with his full strength. Heb. filled his hand witha bow. smote.

1Ki 22:34; Job 20:23-25; Ps 50:22; Pr 21:30; Ec 8:12,13; 1Th 5:3

sunk. Heb. bowed.

the Lord.

1Ki 21:19,24-29; Isa 13:1; Jer 23:33-38; Na 1:1; Mal 1:1; Mt 11:30

blood of Naboth. Heb. bloods of Naboth. of his sons.

De 24:16; 2Ch 24:25; 25:4

I will requite.

Ex 20:5; De 5:9; Eze 18:19

plat. or, portion.

Ahaziah.

8:29; Nu 16:26; 2Ch 22:7-9; Pr 13:20; 2Co 6:17

garden house.

1Ki 21:2

Ibleam.

Jos 17:11; Jud 1:27

Megiddo."In the kingdom of Samaria."

23:29,30; Jud 1:27; 5:19; 1Ki 4:12; 2Ch 22:9

12:21; 14:19,20; 23:20; 2Ch 25:28; 35:24

in the eleventh.

8:16,24; 2Ch 21:18,19; 22:1,2

began Ahaziah."Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his sickness."

2Ch 21:18,19"But in Joram's twelfth year, he began to reign alone. ch. 8:25."

Jezebel.

1Ki 19:1,2

painted her face. Heb. put her eyes in painting.

Jer 4:30; Eze 23:40

tired.

Isa 3:18-24; Eze 24:17; 1Ti 2:9,10; 1Pe 3:3

Zimri.

1Ki 16:9-20

peace.

18-22

Who is on my side?

Ex 32:26; 1Ch 12:18; 2Ch 11:12; Ps 118:6; 124:1,2

eunuchs. or, chamberlains.

Es 1:10; 2:15,21; Ac 12:20

Throw her down.

1Ki 21:11

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