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TURNED HIS HANDS - The meaning is that Joram ordered his charioteer to
turn round and drive back to the town....
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III. THE PERIOD OF DECLENSION AND APOSTASY
1. Jehu, King of Israel and His Deeds
CHAPTER 9:11-37
_ 1. Jehu is king (2 Kings 9:11)_
2. Jehoram, King of Israel slain (2 Kings 9:14)
3. Ahaziah slain...
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2 KINGS 9:1 TO 2 KINGS 10:31. THE REVOLUTION AND OVERTHROW OF THE BAAL
WORSHIP. This spirited narrative is probably derived from the same
source as 1 Kings 20, 22; and, if we strike out the short Deut...
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TURNED HIS HANDS: i.e. to wheel his chariot round....
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_Joram turned his hands_ i.e. Wheeled his chariot about to go in a
contrary direction. Cf. 1 Kings 22:34....
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B. THE DEATH OF JEHORAM OF ISRAEL 9:17-26
TRANSLATION
(17) Now the watchman was standing upon the tower in Jezreel, and he
saw the company of Jehu as he came, and he said, A company I see! And
Joram...
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_AND JORAM TURNED HIS HANDS, AND FLED, AND SAID TO AHAZIAH, THERE IS
TREACHERY, O AHAZIAH._
Joram turned his hands - i:e., the reins of his chariot-steed, and
exclaiming to his royal companion, 'Trea...
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TURNED HIS HANDS] i.e. to wheel his chariot about....
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JEHU AND HIS BLOODSHED
This chapter relates the anointing of Jehu by order of Elisha; and the
death of Jehoram (of Israel), Ahaziah (of Judah), and Jezebel.
I. BOX] RV 'VIAL.' For the use of oil in an...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 9
ELISHA APPOINTS JEHU AS KING OF *ISRAEL
V1 Elisha called a man from the group of the *prophets. He said this
to the...
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AND JORAM TURNED HIS HANDS — _i.e._, turned the horses round. (Comp.
1 Kings 22:34.)
THERE IS TREACHERY. — Literally, _Guile, or fraud, Ahaziah!_ Joram
shouted these two words of warning to his compa...
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וַ יַּהֲפֹ֧ךְ יְהֹורָ֛ם יָדָ֖יו וַ
יָּנֹ֑ס וַ
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THE REVOLT OF JEHU
2 Kings 9:1
B.C. 842
" _ Te semper anteit saeva Necessitas, Clavos trabales et cuneos manu,
Gestans ahena._ "
- HORAT., " _ Od.,_ " I 35:17
A LONG period had elapsed since Elija...
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“THE DRIVING OF JEHU”
2 Kings 9:14
Many times in this chapter the question is asked, though in varying
tones, “Is it peace?” The horsemen ask it of the furious driver;
the king asks it of his captain...
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The hour had come to carry out the sentence of God on the house of
Ahab. The prophet sent one of the sons of the prophets to anoint Jehu.
This Jehu, as his history reveals, was a fitting instrument fo...
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_Hand. Or ordered his charioteer to flee with all speed. (Menochius)_...
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What a remarkable coincidence of circumstances must it have been to
have brought those persons to the very spot of Naboth's vineyard! as
if to remind Joram of the cause of his death, and his merited
j...
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We now enter upon the solemn stroke of judgment which it pleased God
to execute at this time; first, within Israel, and at the hands either
of men raised up in their midst, or from without, until at l...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9 AND 10.
In chapter 9 the judgment on Ahab's house commences. He who executes
it does not remove, in so doing, the rod which God had lifted up
against Israel...
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AND JORAM TURNED HIS HAND, AND FLED,.... Taking hold of the horses'
reins with it to turn them, or by the motion of it directing the
charioteer to turn them back towards Jezreel, whither he fled:
AND...
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_And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, [There is]
treachery, O Ahaziah._
Ver. 23. _And fled._] But divine vengeance, which the Greeks call
Aδραστεια, because there is no fleeing...
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_Joram turned his hands_ Or the reins of his chariot; _and said, There
is treachery, O Ahaziah_ Jehu is our enemy: it is time for us to shift
for our safety. _Jehu drew a bow and smote Jehoram between...
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1 Elisha sendeth a yong Prophet with instructions to annoint Iehu at
Ramoth Gilead.
4 The Prophet hauing done his message, flieth.
11 Iehu being made king by the souldiers, killeth Ioram in the fiel...
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And Joram turned his hands and fled, he tried to get away with all
speed, for he suddenly realized the seriousness of the situation, AND
SAID TO AHAZIAH, THERE IS TREACHERY, O AHAZIAH! They had been
d...
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DEATH OF JORAM...
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JEHU ANOINTED KING OF ISRAEL
(vv.1-13)
Elijah had been told to anoint Jehu king of Israel (1 Kings 19:16),
but had not done it. Now later Elisha commissions one of the sons of
the prophets to anoint...
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16-29 Jehu was a man of eager spirit. The wisdom of God is seen in
the choice of those employed in his work. But it is not for any man's
reputation to be known by his fury. He that has rule over his...
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JORAM TURNED HIS HANDS; either that therewith he might turn the reins
of the chariot, or that by this motion he might direct his charioteer
to turn it from Jehu....
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2 Kings 9:23 Joram H3088 turned H2015 (H8799) H3027 fled H5127 (H8799)
said H559 (H8799) Ahaziah...
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THE DEATH OF JEHORAM AT THE HANDS OF JEHU IN ACCORDANCE WITH YHWH'S
PRONOUNCED JUDGMENT ON THE HOUSE OF AHAB BECAUSE OF THE MURDER OF
NABOTH THE JEZREELITE (2 KINGS 9:21).
Now confident at least of th...
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CONTENTS: Jehu annointed king of Israel. Slays Jehoram, Ahaziah and
Jezebel.
CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, a prophet, Jehu, Jezebel, Jehoram, Ahaziah,
Ahab.
CONCLUSION: God doesn't always pay up for sin...
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2 Kings 9:1. _One of the children of the prophets._ A young man, fit
for the mission, swift of foot: a bruised reed to overthrow a throne
stained with the blood of countless martyrs.
2 Kings 9:7. _Tho...
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_Look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat._
THE HISTORY OF JEHU
Jehu was the son of Nimshi and the grandson of Jehoshaphat. He was one
of the monsters of history. The leading facts of his revoltin...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 9:21. EACH IN HIS CHARIOT WENT OUT AGAINST JEHU—Rather, to
_meet_ Jehu. They would not have ridden out in royal equipages for a
hostile attack on him. This se...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 9:1
THE ANOINTING OF JEHU. His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH. THE DEATH OF
JEZEBEL....
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Chapter nine.
Elisha is an extremely colorful character. And we are coming towards
the end of the career of Elisha, a prophet to the northern kingdom of
Israel. And Elisha commanded one of the young p...
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2 Chronicles 23:13; 2 Kings 11:14...