1 Kings 19:16

Jehu.

2Ki 9:1-3,6-14

Elisha.

19-21; Lu 4:27

Eliseus. Abel-meholah.

4:12; Jud 7:22

2 Kings 9:1-7

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."

4

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
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