Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Kings 9:35
And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands, the rest having been eaten or dragged away by the savage dogs common in the Orient.
And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands, the rest having been eaten or dragged away by the savage dogs common in the Orient.
Verse 35. _THE SKULL - THE FEET, AND THE PALMS OF_ HER _HANDS._] The dogs did not eat those parts, say _Jarchi_ and _Kimchi_, because in her festal dances she danced like a dog, on her hands and feet,...
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 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 Deut...
_they went to bury her_ While Jehu was refreshing himself in the palace, the dogs gathered about the dead body of Jezebel and devoured it. So completely had the tide of popular favour turned towards J...
D. THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL 9:30-37 TRANSLATION (30) Now when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put on eye make-up, and adorned her head, and looked out the window. (31) When Jehu came i...
_AND THEY WENT TO BURY HER: BUT THEY FOUND NO MORE OF HER THAN THE SKULL, AND THE FEET, AND THE PALMS OF HER HANDS._ Found no more of her than the skull ... The dog has a rooted aversion to prey on t...
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 an...
THEY FOUND NO MORE, etc.] The loss of burial added further ignominy to her death: see on 1 Kings 2:31....
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 9 ELISHA APPOINTS JEHU AS KING OF *ISRAEL V1 Elisha called a man from the group of the *prophets. He said this to the...
HER HANDS. — Heb., _the hands. _...
וַ יֵּלְכ֖וּ לְ קָבְרָ֑הּ וְ לֹא ־מָ֣צְאוּ
THE REVOLT OF JEHU 2 Kings 9:1 B.C. 842 " _ Te semper anteit saeva Necessitas, Clavos trabales et cuneos manu, Gestans ahena._ " - HORAT., " _ Od.,_ " I 35:17 A LONG period had elapsed since Elija...
“THE WORD OF THE LORD BY ELIJAH” 2 Kings 9:27 Let us read again 1 Kings 21:23. How those words came back to the two men, who had heard them from the lips of God's servant years before! God's mills gr...
The hour had come to carry out the sentence of God on the house of Ahab. The prophet sent one of the sons of the prophets to anoint Jehu. This Jehu, as his history reveals, was a fitting instrument fo...
_Hands. All the rest had been presently devoured, or carried off by dogs. (Haydock) --- Her precious jewels had been plundered by the soldiers. (Menochius)_...
The character of Jezebel is one of the most awful we meet with in history among women. So much so, that a false prophetess in the revelations, and probably by way of pointing out more emphatically her...
We now enter upon the solemn stroke of judgment which it pleased God to execute at this time; first, within Israel, and at the hands either of men raised up in their midst, or from without, until at l...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9 AND 10. In chapter 9 the judgment on Ahab's house commences. He who executes it does not remove, in so doing, the rod which God had lifted up against Israel...
AND THEY WENT TO BURY HER,.... The servants of Jehu, according to his orders and instructions; BUT THEY FOUND NO MORE OF HER THAN THE SCULL, AND THE FEET, AND THE PALMS OF HER HANDS; the flesh, and e...
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands. Ver. 35. _Than the skull, and the feet._] All her flesh was devoured by dogs. And...
1 Elisha sendeth a yong Prophet with instructions to annoint Iehu at Ramoth Gilead. 4 The Prophet hauing done his message, flieth. 11 Iehu being made king by the souldiers, killeth Ioram in the fiel...
JEHU ANOINTED KING OF ISRAEL (vv.1-13) Elijah had been told to anoint Jehu king of Israel (1 Kings 19:16), but had not done it. Now later Elisha commissions one of the sons of the prophets to anoint...
30-37 Instead of hiding herself, as one afraid of Divine vengeance, Jezebel mocked at fear. See how a heart, hardened against God, will brave it out to the last. There is not a surer presage of ruin,...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 9:35 went H3212 (H8799) bury H6912 (H8800) found H4672 (H8804) than H518 skull H1538 feet...
YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON JEZEBEL (2 KINGS 9:30). The fact that YHWH carried out his judgment on Jehoram and Ahaziah, and now on Jezebel, through Jehu, does not mean that YHWH would approve wholly of all Jeh...
CONTENTS: Jehu annointed king of Israel. Slays Jehoram, Ahaziah and Jezebel. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, a prophet, Jehu, Jezebel, Jehoram, Ahaziah, Ahab. CONCLUSION: God doesn't always pay up for sin...
2 Kings 9:1. _One of the children of the prophets._ A young man, fit for the mission, swift of foot: a bruised reed to overthrow a throne stained with the blood of countless martyrs. 2 Kings 9:7. _Tho...
_Look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat._ THE HISTORY OF JEHU Jehu was the son of Nimshi and the grandson of Jehoshaphat. He was one of the monsters of history. The leading facts of his revoltin...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 9:21. EACH IN HIS CHARIOT WENT OUT AGAINST JEHU—Rather, to _meet_ Jehu. They would not have ridden out in royal equipages for a hostile attack on him. This se...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 9:1 THE ANOINTING OF JEHU. His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH. THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL....
Chapter nine. Elisha is an extremely colorful character. And we are coming towards the end of the career of Elisha, a prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel. And Elisha commanded one of the young p...
Acts 12:23; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Isaiah 14:18; Jeremiah 22:19;...