The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and fled.
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The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and fled.
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And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
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And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her.' And he opened the door, and fled.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 9:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 21:23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
- 2 Kings 9:35-36 They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands. Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,
- 2 Kings 9:3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.” ’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”
- Jeremiah 22:19 He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
- Judges 3:26 Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in…
2Ki 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened the door, and fled.
Ver. 10. In the portion of Jezreel.] In some place about the city.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In the portion of Jezreel; in that part of…
In the portion of Jezreel; in that part of land in or near the city, which belonged to Naboth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they said, it is false, tell us now,....…
And they said, it is false, tell us now,.... They did not believe he spoke truth, but concealed from them the real matter; which they concluded to be of some importance, by the hastiness of the messenger, the privacy between them, the countenance of Jehu, which discovered thoughtfulness and concern, and the trifling answer he sought to put them off with; all which increased their curiosity, and made them urgent and importunate to know the truth of the matter: and he said:
thus and thus spake he to me; such and such words as above: and particularly
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saying, thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel; and no doubt told them that he poured oil on his head, and anointed him, and he might show them the oil.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. The dogs shall eat Jezebel] How most…
Verse 10. The dogs shall eat Jezebel] How most minutely was this prophecy fulfilled! See 2Kg 9:33, &c.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ki 9:10. In the portion of Jezreel — In…
2Ki 9:10. In the portion of Jezreel — In that portion of land, in or near the city, which belonged to Naboth. There shall be none to bury her — That is, none shall bury her, or she shall not be buried; for it appears from 2Ki 9:34, that Jehu gave orders to have her buried, sending out persons for that purpose, but they could only find some small remains of her carcass, the dogs having eaten the rest.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Field, between the inner and the outer wall. Her…
Field, between the inner and the outer wall. Her body shall be left exposed to be eaten by the dogs.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain in the portion of Jezreel--that is, that had formerly…
in the portion of Jezreel--that is, that had formerly been the vineyard of Naboth.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. the dogs shall eat Jezebel] This fate had…
10. the dogs shall eat Jezebel] This fate had been foretold by Elijah 1Ki_21:23. The dogs in Eastern cities prowl hungrily about, and act as scavengers. Hence they are in bad repute, and the name ‘dog’ is one of greatest contempt. To be devoured by them was the extreme of degradation and penalty to an Oriental mind.
in the portion of Jezreel] In 1Ki_21:23 the Hebrew word used signifies ‘wall’ (R.V. rampart) though according to some authorities the word should be the same which is used here. ‘By the rampart’ indicates that she should lie just where she was thrown down close to the city wall. The ‘portion’ signifies the ground a little more outlying, which in an Eastern town is used for the deposit of all offal and rubbish.
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and there shall be none to bury her] One moment she will be queen, the next, cast out of the window by the eunuchs, and her lot so changed that none shall care to go and see what becomes of her body.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) And the dogs shall eat Jezebel.—Literally, and Jezebel…
(10) And the dogs shall eat Jezebel.—Literally, and Jezebel the dogs shall eat. (Comp. Elijah’s threat, 1Ki_21:23.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion…
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel. This had been previously prophesied by Elijah. (1Ki_21:23; 2Ki_9:26, 2Ki_9:27) To an Israelite, and even to a Phoenician, it was an awful threat; for both nations alike buried their dead carefully in deep-dug graves or rocky receptacles, and both regarded the desecration of a corpse as a grievous calamity ("Records of the Past," vol. 9. pp. 112, 114). The dog was to the Hebrews, and to the Orientals generally, an unclean animal, and to be devoured by dogs would have been viewed as a fate which, for a queen, was almost inconceivable. And there shall be none to bury her. Jezebel had no one sufficiently interested in her fate to watch over her remains. Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had kept watch over the bodies of the seven sons of Saul, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night; (2Sa_21:10) and in Greece, if we may believe the poets, life had been risked, and actually forfeited, to save a near relative from similar ignominy (Soph., "Ant.," lines 245-743). But "Jezebel had none to bury her." When she was ejected from the palace window (ver. 33) and fell to the ground, and was trodden under foot by Jehu"s chariot-horses, no one came forth from the palace to give the bruised and wounded corpse such tendance as was possible. There was entire neglect of the body for (probably) some hours; and, during these, the catastrophe occurred which Divine foresight had prophesied, but which human malice had not intended (see vers. 34-37). And he opened the door, and fled. The young man the prophet obeyed to the letter the injunctions which Elisha had given him (ver. 3). The moment that he had executed his errand, he fled.
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