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Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1-13

the Avenger of Blood Anointed 2 Kings 9:1-13 Youth is always being called upon to gird up its loins, and dare to fulfill its commissions without fear of man. We are not to tarry to hear what men say of us. The King’s business requires haste. Do your work and flee, before the world can scare you by its threats or cajole you by its blandishments. You have one Master, one errand: do it, and get back into His presence! God has His appointed instruments to carry out His plans, 1 Kings 19:17 . The... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 9:1-37

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 for swift and relentless judgment. He was a furious driver, which was symbolic of his character. He halted at nothing, but swept like a whirlwind from point to point until the things he desired were accomplished. This is startlingly manifest in this chapter. On tde way, having been anointed... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1

THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS‘One of the children of the prophets.’ 2 Kings 9:1 I. The Jewish prophet was not primarily or characteristically a foreteller.—The sole power which the prophet possessed of declaring that which should be arose from his knowledge of that which had been and which was. He meditated in the law of the Lord, and in that law did he exercise himself day and night. The fruits of revolt his inward monitor enabled him to foresee and to predict. Everything that was sudden in his... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:2

JEHU THE ADVENTURER‘Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat.’ 2 Kings 9:2 Who was this adventurer? We may be sure he was no ordinary man who could found the most powerful of all the dynasties of Israel. I. When we first meet with Jehu he is a young guardsman, just as Napoleon is at first a young lieutenant.—And as Napoleon said that every lieutenant carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, so perhaps young Jehu, ardent and enthusiastic, was dreaming strange dreams of power from the first. There... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 9:1-37

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 Deuteronomic portion ( 2 Kings 9:7-2 Samuel :), we cannot fail to notice the detachment of the writer, who neither condemns nor approves, but merely relates the tragedy. Hosea ( Hosea 1:4), a little more than a century later, evidently condemns the whole transaction, and traces the fall of Jehu’ s... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 9:1

Gird up thy loins; for haste, to take this opportunity when the kings of Israel and Judah were both absent, 2 Kings 8:29, and Jehu, as it seems, was left in chief command. Partly that the work may not be hindered, and partly for the security of thy own person. See 2 Kings 9:3. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 9:2

Partly that the work may not be hindered, and partly for the security of thy own person. See 2 Kings 9:3. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 9:3

I have anointed thee king over Israel: this was not his whole message; but the rest of it is particularly declared 2 Kings 9:7-10, and is to be understood here. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1-14

THE FALL OF THE OMRIAN DYNASTYCRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 9:1. Elisha called one of the children of the prophets—A prophet-disciple, occupying towards Elisha the same relation he himself once stood in towards Elijah. The rabbis suggest it was Jonah. This anointing of Jehu was a further heritage of duty bequeathed by Elijah to Elisha (comp. 1 Kings 19:17; see Notes on 2 Kings 8:7). Box of oil—Flask or vial, פַּךְ from פָכָה to trickle down. Ramoth-Gilead—A city of peculiar importance... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1-3

2 Kings 9:1-3 I. The Jewish prophet was not primarily or characteristically a foreteller. The sole power which the prophet possessed of declaring that which should be arose from his knowledge of that which had been and which was. He meditated in the law of the Lord, and in that law did he exercise himself day and night. The fruits of revolt his inward monitor enabled him to foresee and to predict. Everything that was sudden in his utterances bore witness to previous trains of thought and habits... read more

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