2 Kings 9:21

JEHU KILLED JEHORAM; KING OF ISRAEL; WITH AN ARROW IN HIS BACK

"And Joram said, Make ready. And they made ready his chariot. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace? So long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah. And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and smote Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot."

"They found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite" (2 Kings 9:21). Again we have evidence of how finely and with what precision the Lord times His actions. Only a few minutes variation in the exact time when Joram left Jezreel would have placed his meeting with Jehu at some other place. But, no! God had decreed that the blood of Naboth should be avenged ON THAT VERY SPOT, and so it occurred.

That meeting of Joram and Jehu, "Humanly speaking was accidental. The portion of Naboth lay outside the southeastern gate of Jezreel, and at no great distance from the walls. If the king had started a little sooner, or if Jehu had driven a little slower, the meeting would have taken place somewhere else. But Divine providence so ordered matters that vengeance for the sin of Ahab was exacted upon the very scene of his guilt."[14]

"What peace? so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many" (2 Kings 9:22). The designation of idolatry under such a term as whoredoms (or adulteries) was based upon two things. (1) Under the metaphor that God was the husband of Israel, when the chosen people turned from God and gave the worship which they owed to him to some pagan deity, it was simply that of a wife committing adultery. (2) Also, the worship of the Canaanite fertility gods was invariably accompanied by the most shameful licentiousness revolving around the thousands of religious prostitutes who were at once the principal attraction of paganism and its most effective advocates.