Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Kings 9:13
Put it under him] either for a cushion (as an extemporised throne) or for a carpet.
On the top of the stairs] RM 'on the bare steps'; these would be outside the house.
Put it under him] either for a cushion (as an extemporised throne) or for a carpet.
On the top of the stairs] RM 'on the bare steps'; these would be outside the house.
Verse 2 Kings 9:13. _TOOK EVERY MAN HIS GARMENT_] This was a ceremony by which they acknowledged him as _king_; and it was by such a ceremony that the multitudes acknowledged Jesus Christ for the _Me...
TOOK EVERY MAN HIS GARMENT, AND PUT IT UNDER HIM - The outer cloak of the Jews was a sort of large shawl or blanket, which might well serve for a carpet of state. Such a carpet is commonly represented...
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...
STAIRS. steps. Acts 21:30; Acts 21:40. IS KING. reigneth....
_Then they hasted_ The LXX. gives -they heard it and hastened". This action on the part of the generals shews how little they were attached to the house of Ahab. _took every man his garment_ The loos...
B. THE ACCLAMATION OF HIS FELLOW OFFICERS 9:11-13 TRANSLATION (11) And Jehu went out unto the servants of his master and one said unto him, Is all well? Why did this madman come unto you? And he said...
_THEN THEY HASTED, AND TOOK EVERY MAN HIS GARMENT, AND PUT IT UNDER HIM ON THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, AND BLEW WITH TRUMPETS, SAYING, JEHU IS KING._ Hasted, and took every man his garment. The upper cloa...
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...
THEN (_and_) THEY HASTED. — LXX., “and they heard, and hasted.” This is probably original, the sense being that the moment they heard it, they hastily took up their outer garments, and laid them as a...
וַֽ יְמַהֲר֗וּ וַ יִּקְחוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ בִּגְדֹ֔ו...
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 AVENGER OF BLOOD ANOINTED 2 Kings 9:1 Youth is always being called upon to gird up its loins, and dare to fulfill its commissions without fear of man. We are not to tarry to hear what men say of...
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...
_Garment, out of respect, as the multitude honoured Jesus Christ, Matthew xxi. 7. The pagans sometimes did the like when they carried their idols in procession. (Plutarch, in Alcib.) The king of Persi...
It should seem from the manner in which the captains received Jehu on his return from the prophet, that they were not much disposed at first to treat the prophet, or his message, with respect. But pro...
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...
THEN THEY HASTED, AND TOOK EVERY MAN HIS GARMENT, AND PUT IT UNDER HIM ON THE TOP OF THE STAIRS,.... That is, under Jehu, that he might be raised higher, and put on an eminence above them, agreeably t...
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put [it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king. Ver. 13. _Then they hasted._] See on 2 Kings 9:11 . _...
_Then they hasted_ Being well pleased with the thing; partly from the advantage which hereby they expected; partly from that desire of change which is in the nature of most men; and principally by God...
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...
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, the upper garment, which was really only a large square piece of cloth, AND PUT IT UNDER HIM ON THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, namely, those of the house in w...
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...
IS KING: _ Heb._ reigneth...
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...
THEN THEY HASTED; being well-pleased with the thing; partly, from the advantage which hereby they expected; partly, from that desire of change which is in most men's natures; and principally, by God's...
2 Kings 9:13 man H376 hastened H4116 (H8762) take H3947 (H8799) garment H899 put H7760 (H8799)
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.
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 9:13 THEY BLEW THE TRUMPET AND PROCLAIMED, “JEHU IS KING.” The people’s eagerness to do this suggests that there was instability in the army because of Jehoram’s lack of milita...
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 1:34; 1 Kings 1:39; 2 Samuel 15:10; Judges 9:46; Mark 11:7;...
They hasted — God putting it into their hearts thus readily to own him. Under him — Under Jehu. A ceremony used in the eastern parts towards superiors, in token of reverence to his person, that they w...