Jehu is proclaimed, and goes to Jezreel. Joram is slain, and his body cast into the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite (Not in Chronicles)

11. to the servants of his lord i.e. To the other captains with whom he had before been in conference. They were all Joram's officers.

wherefore came this madfellow to thee? The visit had been made abruptly and in much haste, and amid the camp there would be but little respect for the garb of the prophet. We can see too from the words of the next verse that there was much of bluntness and rudeness in the speech of these soldiers to one another. We need not then suppose that they deemed the prophet a madman, but this is the term they are pleased to apply to him owing to his sudden movements.

Ye know the man No doubt this applies to the appearance and dress of the prophets which distinguished them from others. It means, -Ye know to what class the man belongs, and so you can guess at the nature of his communication." Such a man in such haste comes only with a message. -Thus saith the Lord". Others have referred the words to what the officers had before said, calling the messenger -mad". This would make Jehu's reply mean, -You call him mad, and of course then his communication must be only a madman's raving." So R.V., and what his talk was.

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