2 Kings 9:18

_SO THERE WENT ONE ON HORSEBACK TO MEET HIM, AND SAID, THUS SAITH THE KING, IS IT PEACE? AND JEHU SAID, WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH PEACE? TURN THEE BEHIND ME. AND THE WATCHMAN TOLD, SAYING, THE MESSENGER CAME TO THEM, BUT HE COMETH NOT AGAIN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

16-29 Jehu was a man of eager spirit. The wisdom of God is seen in the choice of those employed in his work. But it is not for any man's reputation to be known by his fury. He that has rule over his own spirit, is better than the mighty. Joram met Jehu in the portion of Naboth. The circumstances of events are sometimes ordered by Divine Providence to make the punishment answer to the sin, as face answers to face in a glass. The way of sin can never be the way of peace, Isaiah 57:21. What peace can sinners have with God? No peace so long as sin is persisted in; but when it is repented of and forsaken, there is peace. Joram died as a criminal, under the sentence of the law. Ahaziah was joined with the house of Ahab. He was one of them; he had made himself so by sin. It is dangerous to join evil-doers; we shall be entangled in guilt and misery by it....

Verse 2 Kings 9:18. _WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH PEACE?_] "What is it to thee whether there be peace or war? Join my company, and fall into the rear....

WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH PEACE? - i. e., “What does it matter to thee whether my errand is one of peace or not?”...

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

SO THERE WENT ONE ON HORSEBACK TO MEET HIM, AND SAID, THUS SAITH THE KING, IS IT PEACE?.... Are things well in the army, or any disturbance in the kingdom? are you come as friends or enemies? AND JEHU SAID, WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH PEACE? or to ask such a question: TURN THEE BEHIND ME; which he was obliged to do, Jehu having such a company of soldiers with him; and this he did, that he might carry no tidings to Joram, that he might not know as yet who he and his company were: AND THE WATCHMAN TOLD, SAYING, THE MESSENGER CAME TO THEM, BUT HE COMETH NOT AGAIN; of this he sent word to the king what he had observed....

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,...

WHAT... ? Figure of speech _Anteisagoge_ (App-6)....

_What hast thou to do with peace?_ What concern is it of thine whether I come peaceably or not? My errand is not to thee. Josephus says the messenger's enquiry was about affairs in the camp, for that the king's questions were about them. Jehu bade him not to worry about these things but to follow him (_Ant._IX. 6. 3). The design of Jehu's order was that no information should be brought to Joram....