Verse 30
THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL
"And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out of the window. And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, thou Zimri, thy master's murderer? And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? Who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot. And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter. And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said, This is the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel; and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so they shall not say, This is Jezebel."
REGARDING JEZEBEL
Like the apostle John who looked upon the Great Whore of Revelation 17:6 (KJV), I wonder with great admiration at this evil woman, who in spite of her wickedness was a woman of great strength and achievement in the eyes of men (though, not in the eyes of the Lord). She was not only a king's daughter, she was the wife of a king (Ahab), and the mother of one king (Joram), the grandmother of another king (Ahaziah), and the mother-in-law of another (Joram of Judah).
She manifested a great zeal for her pagan religion, and if the kings of God's people had been half as zealous to promote the true religion as she was to promote hers, she would not have been successful in the great corruption that she brought upon God's people.
It is to the great shame of the kings of Judah and Israel that their conduct was not such as could have been any encouragement to Jezebel to forsake Baal and cling to the true God.
She retained her queenly character up until the day of her death, and she died in the full regalia of her office, with her customary decorations such as the painted face and attired head (she probably wore her crown). She referred to Jehu as a regicide, another Zimri, reminding him that Zimri himself paid the penalty of his deeds.
It is a great pity that a woman of such gifts never learned the worship of the true God and that she died in the hopeless paganism in which she had been reared. One may well wonder, how many associates of Christians find their behavior such a deterrent that they, like Jezebel, continue in darkness, rather than turn to the Light that lighteth every man coming into the world.
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