Verse 30. _SHE PAINTED HER FACE, AND TIRED HER HEAD_] She endeavoured to improve the appearance of her _complexion_ by paint, and the general effect of her countenance by a _tiara_ or turban head-dre...
PAINTED HER FACE - literally, “put her eyes in antimony “ - i. e., dyed the upper and under eyelids, a common practice in the East, even at the present day. The effect is at once to increase the appar...
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...
HEARD OF IT: i.e. of the murder of her grandson. FACE. eyebrows and eyelids. TIRED. adorned. A WINDOW. the lattice....
The fate of Jezebel (Not in Chronicles) 30. _when Jehu was come to Jezreel_ Very little time could have elapsed between the slaying of Joram and the advance from Naboth's vineyard to the palace. But t...
SHE PAINTED HER FACE— Rendered in the margin, _put her eyes in painting:_ the word פוךֶ _puk,_ rendered _painting,_ signifies a mineral substance, _stybium_ or _stimmi,_ otherwise called _plumbago,_ o...
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 WHEN JEHU WAS COME TO JEZREEL, JEZEBEL HEARD OF IT; AND SHE PAINTED HER FACE, AND TIRED HER HEAD, AND LOOKED OUT AT A WINDOW._ Jezebel ... painted her face, х_ `EEYNEYHAA_ (H5869), her eyes; _ B...
PAINTED HER FACE] RV 'painted her eyes' (eyelids), i.e. with a preparation of antimony, to make them appear larger and more brilliant....
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...
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...
AND WHEN JEHU WAS COME. — Rather, _And Jehu came — i.e._, after the slaughter of Ahaziah, as the Hebrew construction implies. JEZEBEL HEARD OF IT. — Rather, _Now Jezebel had heard — scil._, the news...
וַ יָּבֹ֥וא יֵה֖וּא יִזְרְעֶ֑אלָה וְ אִיזֶ֣בֶל...
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...
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and (l) looked out at a window. (l) Being of a harsh and cruel nature, she would still retain h...
Stone, or antimony, to make the eyes look black and large. If (Calmet) Jezabel thought that she would thus command respect or love, (Abulensis) she was extremely imprudent and rash, in her present con...
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 WHEN JEHU WAS COME TO JEZREEL, JEZEBEL HEARD OF IT,.... And of what he had done to Joram: AND SHE PAINTED HER FACE; or put "stibium" on her eyes; a sort of paint, to make them look beautiful perh...
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. Ver. 30. _And she painted her face._] Heb., She put her eyes in pai...
_Jezebel heard of it_, &c. She had heard that Jehu had slain her son, and slain him for her murders, idolatries, and other crimes, and thrown his dead body into the portion of Naboth, according to the...
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...
DEATH OF AHAZIAH AND JEZEBEL...
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, applying a special preparation to her eyebrows and eyelids, AND TIRED HER HEAD, by putting on the head-band and crown...
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...
PAINTED HER FACE: _ Heb._ put her eyes in painting...
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,...
Either hoping that by her majestic dress and carriage she might strike Jehu or his followers with such an awe, that they should not offer any injury to her person; or rather, because perceiving her ca...
2 Kings 9:30 Jehu H3058 come H935 (H8799) Jezreel H3157 Jezebel H348 heard H8085 (H8804) put H7760 ...
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...
1 Kings 19:1; 1 Kings 19:2; 1 Peter 3:3; 1 Timothy 2:10; 1 Timothy 2:9