Had kept - Rather, “was keeping watch.” The city had been taken: but the war continuing, and there being a danger of the Syrians recovering it, Joram and all Israel (i. e., the whole military force) were guarding the recent conquest, while Hazael threatened it.
Verse 2 Kings 9:14. _JORAM HAD KEPT RAMOTH-GILEAD_] The confederate armies appear to have taken this city; but they were obliged to watch their conquests, as they perceived that Hazael was determined...
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...
HAD KEPT. had been keeping....
_conspired against Joram_ The verb has the notion of -binding". Hence it implies here that Jehu made a league with the other generals to carry out the deposition and slaying of Joram. The word in the...
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...
_SO JEHU THE SON OF JEHOSHAPHAT THE SON OF NIMSHI CONSPIRED AGAINST JORAM. (NOW JORAM HAD KEPT RAMOTH-GILEAD, HE AND ALL ISRAEL, BECAUSE OF HAZAEL KING OF SYRIA._ Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead - rathe...
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...
NOW JORAM HAD KEPT RAMOTH-GILEAD... BUT KING JORAM WAS RETURNED. — Rather, _Now Joram had been on guard in Ramoth-gilead_... _And Jehoram the king returned_. The whole is a parenthesis intended to exp...
וַ יִּתְקַשֵּׁ֗ר יֵה֛וּא בֶּן ־יְהֹושָׁפָ֥ט בֶּן...
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 DRIVING OF JEHU” 2 Kings 9:14 Many times in this chapter the question is asked, though in varying tones, “Is it peace?” The horsemen ask it of the furious driver; the king asks it of his captain...
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...
_Conspired, with the captains. (Menochius) -- Besieged, as it is observed above, chap. xxviii. 29. Hebrew, "had kept (Haydock) or observed;" watching the motions of Hazael, lest he should return, or s...
The whole design of this being from the Lord, we have only to remark how the various circumstances all concurred to insure the ruin of Ahab's house. From Ramoth-Gilead to Jezreel was no small distance...
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...
SO JEHU THE SON OF JEHOSHAPHAT THE SON OF NIMSHI CONSPIRED AGAINST JORAM,.... He and the captains with him entered into a confederacy to depose Joram, and set him up as king: NOW JORAM HAD KEPT RAMOT...
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria. Ver. 14. _Now Joram had kept Ramothgile...
_So Jehu conspired against Joram_ Contrived with the rest of the captains how to destroy Joram: for which they had the fairer opportunity, because he was gone from the army to Jezreel. _Now Joram had...
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...
So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram, for by permitting himself to be proclaimed as king he rebelled against the authority of the reigning monarch. ( NOW JORAM H...
DEATH OF JORAM...
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...
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...
JORAM HAD KEPT RAMOTH-GILEAD; which interpreters conclude to have been taken by Joram before this time, though the taking of it be not mentioned. This they gather, first, from the mention of the inner...
2 Kings 9:14 Jehu H3058 son H1121 Jehoshaphat H3092 son H1121 Nimshi H5250 conspired H7194 (H8691) Joram H3141 Joram
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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 9:1 1 Kings 19:15 tells of three men whom God would use to bring about the end of Baal worship in Israel. Two of those men—Elisha and Hazael—have already appeared on the scene.
THE FALL OF THE OMRIAN DYNASTY CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 9:1. ELISHA CALLED ONE OF THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS—A prophet-disciple, occupying towards Elisha the same relation he himsel...
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 15:27; 1 Kings 16:16; 1 Kings 16:7; 1 Kings 16:9; 1 Kings 22:3