2 Kings 9:33-36

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 9:30-37

The greatest delinquent in the house of Ahab was Jezebel: it was she that introduced Baal, slew the Lord's prophets, contrived the murder of Naboth, stirred up her husband first, and then her sons, to do wickedly; a cursed woman she is here called (2 Kgs. 9:34), a curse to the country, and whom all that wished well to their country had a curse for. Three reigns her reign had lasted, but now, at length, her day had come to fall. We read of a false prophetess in the church of Thyatira that is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 9:33

And he said, throw her down ,.... Out of the window upon the ground: so they threw her down ; took her up, and cast her headlong, as they were bid: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall ; of the palace where she was: and on the horses ; which drew the chariot of Jehu: and he trod her underfoot ; with his horses; according to Kimchi, her sentence, and so her death, was stoning, as a retaliation of Naboth; for stoning was done two ways, both by casting down persons on... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 9:34

And when he was come in ,.... To the palace: he did eat and drink ; to refresh himself after so long a march, and doing such execution: and said, go see now this cursed woman ; who had been the means of bringing a curse on Israel through her idolatry, and upon Ahab and his family, and upon herself, body and soul, being cursed of God and of men: and bury her ; forgetting the prophecy concerning her, though afterwards he remembered it: for she is a king's daughter : the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 9:35

And they went to bury her ,.... The servants of Jehu, according to his orders and instructions: but they found no more of her than the scull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands ; the flesh, and even all the rest of her bones, being devoured by dogs, so that there was scarce anything of her to be buried, as in 2 Kings 9:10 , something similar to this happened to Ascletarion, a mathematician, as related by Suetonius F15 In Vita Domitian. c. 15. . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 9:36

Wherefore they came again, and told him ,.... How things were, and what only could be found of Jezebel: and he said, this is the word of the Lord ; or the fulfilment of it: which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying ; as in 1 Kings 21:23 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 9:33

So they threw her down - What a terrible death! She was already, by the fall, almost dashed to pieces; and the brutal Jehu trampled her already mangled body under his horse's feet! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 9:34

She is a king ' s daughter - Jezebel was certainly a woman of a very high lineage. She was daughter of the king of Tyre; wife of Ahab, king of Israel; mother of Joram, king of Israel; mother-in-law of Joram, king of Judah; and grandmother of Ahaziah, king of Judah. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 9:35

The skull - the feet , and the palms of her hands - The dogs did not eat those parts, say Jarchi and Kimchi, because in her festal dances she danced like a dog, on her hands and feet, wantonly moving her head. What other meaning these rabbins had, I do not inquire. She was, no doubt, guilty of the foulest actions, and was almost too bad to be belied. How literally was the prediction delivered in the preceding book, ( 1 Kings 21:23 , The dogs shall eat Jezebel, by the wall... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 9:1-37

THE ANOINTING OF JEHU . His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH . THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL . read more

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

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