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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...
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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)
w...
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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...
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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...
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HAD KEPT. had been keeping....
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 a...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יִּתְקַשֵּׁ֗ר יֵה֛וּא בֶּן
־יְהֹושָׁפָ֥ט בֶּן ־נִמְשִׁ֖י אֶל
־יֹורָ֑ם וְ יֹורָם֩ הָיָ֨ה שֹׁמֵ֜ר
בְּ...
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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 Elij...
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“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 captai...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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DEATH OF JORAM...
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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 anoin...
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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
p...
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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...
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2 Kings 9:14 Jehu H3058 son H1121 Jehoshaphat H3092 son H1121 Nimshi
H5250 conspired H7194 (H8691) Joram H3141 Joram H3141 defending H8104
(H8802) Ramoth H7433 Gilead H1568 Israel H3478 against H6440...
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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...
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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. _Th...
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_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...
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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....
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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
himse...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 9:1
THE ANOINTING OF JEHU. His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH. THE DEATH OF
JEZEBEL.
2 KINGS 9:1
Elisha is still the primary figure in the historical drama; but at
this point his...
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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...
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1 Kings 15:27; 1 Kings 16:16; 1 Kings 16:7; 1 Kings 16:9; 1 Kings
22:3; 2 Kings 10:9; 2 Kings 15:30; 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Kings 8:28; 2 Kings
9: