2 Kings 9:6

went into the house The council was sitting in the courtyard, a place which in Eastern houses can be kept somewhat private.

over the people of the Lord, even over Israel Though the northern kingdom had cast aside the true worship of Jehovah, and followed readily in the ways of Jeroboam, yet the abundance of prophetic labour which was expended in Israel exceeds, as far as we learn from the Bible, that which was bestowed on the more faithful Judah. Israel is still the people of the Lord.