the dogs shall eat Jezebel This fate had been foretold by Elijah 1 Kings 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 1 Kings 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.

andthere shall be none to buryher] 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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