The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1-37
THE ANOINTING OF JEHU . His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH . THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL . read more
2 Kings 9:7-10 Niv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1-37
The deaths of Jehoram and Jezebel; or, the Divine law of retribution. King Jehoram was lying sick at Jezreel of the wounds he had received in battle from the Syrians. Ahaziah King of Judah had come down to visit him, and, as they conversed together, the watchman upon the city wall brought tidings of an armed company approaching. Jehu, at the head of them, was by-and-by recognized by his furious driving. He had already been proclaimed king in Ramoth-Gilead, but Jehoram knew nothing of this.... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:7
And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master. This is plainly a command, not a prophecy. Jehu is expressly ordered by God to "smite," i.e. destroy utterly, the whole house of Ahab. This command he carried out ( 2 Kings 9:24 , 2 Kings 9:33 ; 2 Kings 10:1-11 ); and his obedience to it obtained for him the temporal reward that his children to the fourth generation should sit on the throne of Israel ( 2 Kings 10:30 ). Yet still his conduct in destroying the house of Ahab is spoken... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:8
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that passeth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel (see the comment on 1 Kings 14:10 ). While the exact force of the phrases used is doubtful, the general intention to embrace in the sentence all Ahab's posterity cannot be doubted. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:9
And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Jeroboam's house had been "cut off," smitten, destroyed, till not one of his posterity was left, about seventy years previously ( 1 Kings 15:29 ), by Baasha, "because of his sins which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger" ( 1 Kings 15:30 ). The far greater sin of Ahab could not be visited with less severity. And like the house of... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:10
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel. This had been previously prophesied by Elijah ( 1 Kings 21:23 ; 2 Kings 9:26 , 2 Kings 9:27 ). To an Israelite, and even to a Phoenician, it was an awful threat; for both nations alike buried their dead carefully in deep-dug graves or rocky receptacles, and both regarded the desecration of a corpse as a grievous calamity. The dog was to the Hebrews, and to the Orientals generally, an unclean animal, and to be devoured by dogs... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 9:7
2 Kings 9:7. And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab Thou shalt execute my judgment upon them, pronounced long ago. That I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, &c. That they were idolaters was bad enough, and merited all that was brought upon them; yet this is not mentioned here; but the controversy God has with them is for their being persecutors. Nothing fills up the measure of the iniquity of any prince or people so much as this doth; nor brings a surer or sorer ruin.... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 9:8
2 Kings 9:8. For the whole house of Ahab shall perish That is, all his posterity and all his kindred. Jehu, therefore, having received such a charge, is to be considered, in what he afterward did to the house of Ahab, as acting not out of a spirit of revenge, for he had no quarrel with the house of Ahab; but, as the minister of God, who, by his prophet, authorized and enjoined him to do what follows. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 9:10
2 Kings 9:10 . In the portion of Jezreel In that portion of land, in or near the city, which belonged to Naboth. There shall be none to bury her That is, none shall bury her, or she shall not be buried; for it appears from 2 Kings 9:34, that Jehu gave orders to have her buried, sending out persons for that purpose, but they could only find some small remains of her carcass, the dogs having eaten the rest. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1-14
Jehu made king. The word of the Lord to Elijah, that Jehu should be anointed king ( 1 Kings 19:16 ), was now to be fulfilled. The delay in the fulfillment is perhaps to be attributed to Ahab's repentance ( 1 Kings 21:29 ). God bore long with this wicked house, and did not cut it off till the cup of its iniquity was full. The execution of God's threatenings may be long postponed, but, like his promises, his threatenings never fail in the end to be fulfilled ( 2 Peter 3:9 ). I. THE ... read more