2 Kings 9:15

_BUT KING JORAM WAS RETURNED TO BE HEALED IN JEZREEL OF THE WOUNDS WHICH THE SYRIANS HAD GIVEN HIM, WHEN HE FOUGHT WITH HAZAEL KING OF SYRIA.) AND JEHU SAID, IF IT BE YOUR MINDS, THEN LET NONE GO FORTH NOR ESCAPE OUT OF THE CITY TO GO TO TELL IT IN JEZREEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

11-15 Those who faithfully deliver the Lord's message to sinners, have in all ages been treated as madmen. Their judgment, speech, and conduct are contrary to those of other men; they endure much in pursuit of objects, and are influenced by motives, into which the others cannot enter. But above all, the charge is brought by the worldly and ungodly of all sorts, who are mad indeed; while the principles and practice of the devoted servants of God, prove to be wise and reasonable. Some faith in the word of God, seems to have animated Jehu to this undertaking....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 9:1 THE ANOINTING OF JEHU. His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH. THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL. 2 KINGS 9:1 Elisha is still the primary figure in the historical drama; but at this point his personality merges in the general account of the kingdom of Israel, which it is one of the objects of the writer to trace from beginning to end. Elisha here performs his last public act, being commissioned, and carrying out his commission, to transfer the kingdom of Israel from the unworthy dynasty of Omri, which on account of its p

BUT KING JORAM WAS RETURNED TO BE HEALED IN JEZREEL,.... As is recorded, 2 Kings 8:29 and here repeated for the reason above given: AND JEHU SAID, IF IT BE YOUR MINDS; to engage one and all, and heartily, in this conspiracy, and to make me king: THEN LET NONE GO FORTH NOR ESCAPE OUT OF THE CITY, to go to tell it in Jezreel; that so Joram might be surprised unawares, and have no opportunity either of fleeing or of preparing for his defence....

III. THE PERIOD OF DECLENSION AND APOSTASY 1. Jehu, King of Israel and His Deeds CHAPTER 9:11-37 _ 1. Jehu is king (2 Kings 9:11)_ 2. Jehoram, King of Israel slain (2 Kings 9:14) 3. Ahaziah slain (2 Chronicles 22:9) 4. Jezebel and her end (2 Kings 9:30) Jehu revealed the secret anointing as King over Israel, and under the blare of the trumpets the army hails him as King. “Jehu is King!” Oh! for that day when our Lord Jesus will be hailed as King to begin His righteous judgment over the earth. The Assyrian monuments bear interesting testimony to a good deal of the histo

2 KINGS 9:1 TO 2 KINGS 10:31. THE REVOLUTION AND OVERTHROW OF THE BAAL WORSHIP. This spirited narrative is probably derived from the same source as 1 Kings 20, 22; and, if we strike out the short Deuteronomic portion (2 Kings 9:7), we cannot fail to notice the detachment of the writer, who neither condemns nor approves, but merely relates the tragedy. Hosea (Hosea 1:4), a little more than a century later, evidently condemns the whole transaction, and traces the fall of Jehu's house to the blood of Jezreel. This is in strong contrast with the Deuteronomic passage,...

WAS RETURNED. Compare 2 Kings 8:29. MINDS. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. The parenthesis in verses: 2 Kings 9:14 is so placed by the Structure. See above....

_But king Joram was returned_ Though he was at Jezreel professedly for the cure of his wounds, Joram was sufficiently recovered to be able to entertain Ahaziah, and also to go forth in his chariot to meet Jehu. If he stayed in his capital thus, while the army was in force at Ramoth-gilead and fully occupied with the Syrian foe, we can easily understand how the feelings of the soldiery would turn from him to the officers who remained with them, and especially to Jehu, who seems to have been the man of action among the number. _If it be your minds_ R.V. IF THIS BE YOUR MIND. The LXX. renders -If your mind be with me", which gives the sense, though there is nothing in the Hebrew to represent -with me" any more than the -this" of R.V. Jehu, as was fit until his throne was secure, takes counsel with his fellow-generals. _let none go forth_nor _escape_ R.V. LET NONE ESCAPE AND GO FORTH. The l...

II. CONFRONTATION AT JEZREEL 9:14-37 The historian takes pains to paint the backdrop for the _coup d-'etat_ in 2 Kings 9:14-16. Then, in a matter-of-fact way, he narrates the bloody deaths of Jehoram of Israel (2 Kings 9:17-26), Ahaziah of Judah (2 Kings 9:27-29), and Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30-37). A. SETTING FOR THE _COUP D-'ETAT_ 9:14-16 TRANSLATION (14) So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram (now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael the king of Aram. And Joram the king had returned to convalesce in Jezreel from the w

JEHU AND HIS BLOODSHED This chapter relates the anointing of Jehu by order of Elisha; and the death of Jehoram (of Israel), Ahaziah (of Judah), and Jezebel. I. BOX] RV 'VIAL.' For the use of oil in anointing sovereigns see 1 Samuel 10:1; 1 Samuel 16:13. RA-MOTH-GILEAD] The Israelite army was on guard here (2 Kings 9:14)....