And when he was come in To the palace, where now he was master. Not only the eunuchs of Jezebel, but the household of Joram appears to have been ready to serve him, for the queen-mother is hardly dead before Jehu is set down to a banquet in the palace.

and said, Go, see now this cursedwoman] [R.V. And he said, See now to this cursed woman] The -Go" of A.V. is of course implied but not expressed in the original. By -cursed" he means that she has brought God's curse upon herself by her idolatry and bad example. It is no objurgation of his own. The word is the same that is employed in that solemn list of God's curses on evil-doing in Deuteronomy 27, 28.

sheis a king's daughter Jezebel was daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. See note on 1 Kings 16:31.

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