
Text -- 2 Kings 9:35-37 (NET)




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The dog has a rooted aversion to prey on the human hands and feet.
Clarke: 2Ki 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 ...
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, (1Ki 21:23, The dogs shall eat Jezebel, by the wall of Jezreel), fulfilled! And how dearly did she and her husband Ahab pay for the murder of innocent Naboth!

Clarke: 2Ki 9:37 - -- And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung - As it was not buried under the earth, but was eaten by the dogs, this saying was also literally fulfil...
And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung - As it was not buried under the earth, but was eaten by the dogs, this saying was also literally fulfilled

Clarke: 2Ki 9:37 - -- They shall not say, This is Jezebel - As she could not be buried, she could have no funeral monument. Though so great a woman by her birth, connecti...
They shall not say, This is Jezebel - As she could not be buried, she could have no funeral monument. Though so great a woman by her birth, connections, and alliances, she had not the honor of a tomb! There was not even a solitary stone to say, Here lies Jezebel! not even a mound of earth to designate the place of her sepulture! Judgment is God’ s strange work; but when he contends, how terrible are his judgments! and when he ariseth to execute judgment, who shall stay his hand? How deep are his counsels, and how terrible are his workings!
TSK: 2Ki 9:35 - -- but they found : Job 31:3; Ecc 6:3; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 22:19, Jer 36:30; Act 12:23

TSK: 2Ki 9:36 - -- This is : 1Ki 21:23
by his : Heb. by the hand of his, 2Ki 14:25; Lev 8:36; 2Sa 12:25

TSK: 2Ki 9:37 - -- the carcase : Psa 83:10; Ecc 6:3; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 8:2, Jer 16:4, Jer 22:19, Jer 36:20; Eze 32:23-30
the carcase : Psa 83:10; Ecc 6:3; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 8:2, Jer 16:4, Jer 22:19, Jer 36:20; Eze 32:23-30

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Poole: 2Ki 9:36 - -- This is the word of the Lord: this strange providence brings that to his mind which he had forgotten, or did not regard.
This is the word of the Lord: this strange providence brings that to his mind which he had forgotten, or did not regard.

Poole: 2Ki 9:37 - -- These words are not extant in the place where this prophecy is first mentioned, 1Ki 21:23 , but are here added, either by Jehu, by way of explicatio...
These words are not extant in the place where this prophecy is first mentioned, 1Ki 21:23 , but are here added, either by Jehu, by way of explication and amplification; or rather, because Elijah spoke them, though they be not there recorded, as being for the substance of them contained in the former words; it being usual to insert some passages in following writings which had been omitted in the former.
Haydock: 2Ki 9:35 - -- Hands. All the rest had been presently devoured, or carried off by dogs. (Haydock) ---
Her precious jewels had been plundered by the soldiers. (M...
Hands. All the rest had been presently devoured, or carried off by dogs. (Haydock) ---
Her precious jewels had been plundered by the soldiers. (Menochius)

Field, or space between the walls, 3 Kings xxi. 23. (Calmet)

Haydock: 2Ki 9:37 - -- Jezabel? So fallen (Menochius) and degraded, though once possessed of so much power and beauty! sic transit gloria mundi. Hebrew and Septuagint,...
Jezabel? So fallen (Menochius) and degraded, though once possessed of so much power and beauty! sic transit gloria mundi. Hebrew and Septuagint, "that they shall not say, This is Jezabel!" (Haydock) ---
No monument shall recall her to the remembrance of men. (Calmet) ---
Her body cannot be recognized. This will be the fate of the greatest mortal beauties, a few days after their departure. St. Francis Borgia durst not take an oath that the corpse which he had to attend, was that of the late beautiful empress Isabella: so much was it already disfigured. This sight was the beginning of his conversion, and of that eminent sanctity to which he attained, by despising all that the world can give or take away. (Haydock) ---
The Spanish interpreters call Achab's widow, Isabella: and she seems to have been the sister, or relation, of Dido, who founded Carthage about this time; (Tirinus) Salien says in the 16th year of Jehu, the year before Christ 887. (Haydock)
Gill: 2Ki 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 th...
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 2Ki 9:10, something similar to this happened to Ascletarion, a mathematician, as related by Suetonius o.

Gill: 2Ki 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; o...
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 1Ki 21:23.

Gill: 2Ki 9:37 - -- And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel,.... For upon this spot her carcass fell when thrown ...
And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel,.... For upon this spot her carcass fell when thrown out of the window of the king's palace, and here it was left; for the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which was in the portion of Jezreel, was next to the palace, 1Ki 21:1, there seems to be some allusion to her name Jezebel, which signifies "where is dung?"
so that they shall not say, this is Jezebel; there being nothing left of her to be seen or pointed to, nor any grave nor monument over it on which was such an inscription, here lies Jezebel; or that might lead posterity to say, this is Jezebel's grave. Now though the words of this verse are not recorded elsewhere, as the words of the Lord, by Elijah, yet as Jehu was present when they were spoken, and within the hearing of them, he now remembered them, and could repeat them, these circumstances bringing them fresh to his mind.

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NET Notes: 2Ki 9:36 Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

Geneva Bible -> 2Ki 9:37
Geneva Bible: 2Ki 9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, ( p ) This [is] Jezebe...

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 9:1-37
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 9:1-37 - --1 Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth-gilead.4 The prophet having done his message, flees.11 Jehu, being made king...
MHCC -> 2Ki 9:30-37
MHCC: 2Ki 9:30-37 - --Instead of hiding herself, as one afraid of Divine vengeance, Jezebel mocked at fear. See how a heart, hardened against God, will brave it out to the ...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 9:30-37
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 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,...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 9:35-37
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 9:35-37 - --
But when they went to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, the two feet, and the two hollow hands. The rest had been eaten by the dogs and dr...
Constable: 2Ki 9:30--18:1 - --C. The Second Period of Antagonism 9:30-17:41
The kingdoms of Israel and Judah continued without an alli...

Constable: 2Ki 9:30--11:1 - --1. Jehu's evil reign in Israel 9:30-10:36
Since the writer did not record Jehu's coronation, we ...
