2 Kings 9:1
Ramoth — The kings of Israel and Judah were both absent, and Jehu, as it seems, was left in chief command.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ramoth — The kings of Israel and Judah were both absent, and Jehu, as it seems, was left in chief command.... [ Continue Reading ]
I may avenge,&c. — That they were idolaters was bad enough: yet that is not mentioned here: the controversy God has with them, is for being persecutors. Nothing fills the measure of the iniquity of any prince so as this doth, nor brings a surer or sorer ruin.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mad fellow — They perceived him to be a prophet by his habit, and gestures, and manner of speech. And these prophane soldiers esteemed the prophets mad — men. Those that have no religion, commonly speak of those that are religious with disdain, and look upon them as crack — brained. They said of our... [ Continue Reading ]
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 would not have his feet to touch the ground, and that they put themselves and their concerns under hi... [ Continue Reading ]
Portion of Naboth — The very sight of that ground was enough to make Jehu triumph and Joram tremble. The circumstances of events are sometimes so ordered by Divine providence, as to make the punishment answer the sin, as face answers face in a glass.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whoredoms, &c. — This may be understood, either literally; spiritual whoredom, which is idolatry, being often punished with corporal: and witchcraft was often practised by idolaters: or spiritually, of her idolatry, which is often called whoredom, because it is a departing from God, to whom we are t... [ Continue Reading ]
The arrow — It was one of God's arrows, which he ordained against the persecutor.... [ Continue Reading ]
He died — The history is briefly and imperfectly described here, and the defects supplied in (the book of Chronicles, is great part written for that end, to supply things omitted in the book of Kings) out of both it may be thus compleated: he fled first to Megiddo, and thence to Samaria, where he wa... [ Continue Reading ]
Had Zimri — Remember thy brother traitor Zimri had but a very short enjoyment of the benefit of his treason.... [ Continue Reading ]
And said — It seems he had forgot the charge given him above, 2 Kings 9:10. A king's daughter — He doth not say, because she was a king's wife, lest he should seem to shew any respect to that wicked house of Ahab, which God had devoted to utter destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]