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,
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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,
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Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
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Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said: 'This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying: In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 9:36 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.
- Leviticus 8:36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.
- 2 Samuel 12:25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.
- 2 Kings 14:25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, by the hand of.
Hebrew, by the hand of.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him.…
2Ki 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
Ver. 36. This is the word of the Lord.] See 2Ki 9:34.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This is the word of the Lord: this strange…
This is the word of the Lord: this strange providence brings that to his mind which he had forgotten, or did not regard.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ki 9:36-37. He said, This is the word of…
2Ki 9:36-37. He said, This is the word of the Lord — He now calls to mind the words of the Prophet Elijah, which before he had forgot, or did not regard. And the carcass of Jezebel, &c. — These words are not extant in the place where this prophecy is first mentioned, 1Ki 21:23; but are here added by Jehu, by way of explication and amplification. So that they shall not say, This is Jezebel — No memory of her, nothing whereby it might be known there had been such a woman as Jezebel, should remain of her, as a picture or effigies, to which men might point and say, This is Jezebel. No monument was made of her, and she had no sepulchre but in the belly of dogs.
Upon the whole, what is recorded in this chapter shows that the divine threatenings are never in vain: that the curse of God pursues princes and families where impiety reigns. Let it be observed, likewise, that Ahaziah king of Judah, because he imitated the kings of Israel in their idolatries and other sins, and was united with Jehoram king of Israel, perished with him. Those who become the companions and imitators of the wicked, are involved, sooner or later, in the same judgments with them.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Field, or space between the walls, 3 Kings xxi.…
Field, or space between the walls, 3 Kings xxi. 23. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain JEZEBEL EATEN BY DOGS. (Kg2 9:36-37)
JEZEBEL EATEN BY DOGS. (Kg2 9:36-37)
This is the word of the Lord--(See Kg1 21:23). Jehu's statement, however, was not a literal but a paraphrased quotation of Elijah's prophecy.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 36. This is the word of the Lord —…
36. This is the word of the Lord — The iron-hearted Jehu remembers and quotes the prophecies of Elijah. He quotes not the very words, but, as was most natural, gave their sense in his own language.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 36. This is the word of the Lord] In…
36. This is the word of the Lord] In one point after another he finds the curse fulfilled. Now it is Joram’s death in Naboth’s vineyard, and now the dogs devouring Jezebel. For the word of the Lord concerning Jezebel, see 1Ki_21:23.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (36) This is the word of the Lord.—See 1Ki_21:23,…
(36) This is the word of the Lord.—See 1Ki_21:23, where this oracle of Elijah is given.
Portion—i.e., domain, territory (hçleq). In 1Ki_21:23, the word is “wall” (hçl), an error due to the loss of the final letter; not an original difference, as Keil assumes.
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Dogs.—The dogs.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Wherefore they came again, and told him. The men…
Wherefore they came again, and told him. The men whom he had sent to bury Jezebel returned, and told the king what they had found. The narrative woke another chord of memory which had hitherto slept. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite. The prophecy referred to is doubtless that recorded in 1Ki_21:23. It is, however, here expanded, either because Jehu"s recollection was not exact, or because the record in 1 Kings is abbreviated. The great point of the prophecy is common to both records, viz. that the dogs should eat Jezebel at Jezreel, on the scene of her iniquities. Saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel. It is not quite clear what is meant by the portion (qlje) of Jezreel.
Probably there is no allusion to the "portion" (hqlj) of Naboth (vers. 25, 26). Rather the same is meant as by lje in 1Ki_21:23, viz. the cultivated space or "portion" of land outside the wall of the town (see the comment on that passage).
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