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2 Kings 9:32

2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 Kings 9:32 Kings in ancient times often hired eunuchs (castrated males) to guard their harems. This assured the king that the males close to his women were not capable of sexual relations with them. Eunuchs also served as cooks, scribes, ambassadors, and in administrative roles.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _to the window_ Here the LXX. adds -and saw her". After which it continues, -And he said, Who art thou? Come down with me. And there looked out &c." Josephus makes Jezebel's remark to be: -A pretty se...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THERE LOOKED OUT—TWO OR THREE EUNUCHS— According to the custom of the eastern nations, the business of this sort of people was to attend upon queens in their chambers. By their great fidelity and obse...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND AS JEHU ENTERED IN AT THE GATE, SHE SAID, HAD ZIMRI PEACE, WHO SLEW HIS MASTER?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:32 chamberlains (a-22) Or 'eunuchs.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHO IS ON MY SIDE? WHO? — This hardly implies, as Thenius thinks, that Jezebel had made preparations for resistance. Jehu knew that the imperious and cruel queen was well hated by the palace officials...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּשָּׂ֤א פָנָיו֙ אֶל ־הַ֣ חַלֹּ֔ון וַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _This. "Who dares address me with such provoking language?" Hebrew, "Who with me, who?" will punish the wretch? The eunuchs, who had hitherto waited upon Jezabel, immediately shewed their readiness to...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE LIFTED UP HIS FACE TO THE WINDOW,.... On hearing the above words; AND SAID, WHO IS ON MY SIDE, WHO? and will assist in taking vengeance on this haughty, imperious, and abusive woman: AND THER...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs. Ver. 32. _There looked out to him two or three eunuchs._] Those rats o...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He said, Who is on my side?_ He had been called out by God to the work of punishing those who had corrupted the land, and he here calls out for assistance in doing it. _And there looked out to him tw...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he lifted up his face to the window and said, Who is on my side, who? And there looked out to him, in answer to his call, TWO OR THREE EUNUCHS, two servants of the palace at one window and three a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DEATH OF AHAZIAH AND JEZEBEL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    EUNUCHS: Or, chamberlains...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    For such used to attend upon queens in their chambers....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 9:32 up H5375 (H8799) H6440 window H2474 said H559 (H8799) two H8147 three H7969 eunuchs...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 9:1 THE ANOINTING OF JEHU. His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH. THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 12:18; 2 Chronicles 11:12; Acts 12:20; Esther 1:10;...

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