2 Kings 9:2
Jehu <03058> [Jehu.]
Jehoram having retired from the army, Jehu seems to have been left first in command, having been long employed by Ahab's family.
aside <08432> [among his brethern.]
inner room <02315> [inner chamber. Heb. chamber in a chamber.]
2 Kings 9:5
message <01697> [I have an errand.]
2 Kings 9:13
Each ..... took <03947 0376> [and took every.]
The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of ’schylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way.
feet <01634> [on the top.]
The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Jud 9:46, 51,) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs, (Ne 3:15.) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city.
trumpet ... blown <07782 08628> [blew with trumpets.]
king <04427> [is king. Heb. reigneth.]
2 Kings 9:16
Ahaziah <0274> [And Ahaziah.]
2 Kings 9:20
drives ..... drives <04491> [driving. or, marching.]
drives <05090> [for he driveth.]
recklessly <07697> [furiously. Heb. in madness.]
2 Kings 9:30
Jezebel <0348> [Jezebel.]
put .... eye <05869 07760> [painted her face. Heb. put her eyes in painting.]
fixed up <03190> [tired.]
2 Kings 10:1
seventy sons <01121 07657> [seventy sons.]
Samaria .......... Samaria <08111> [in Samaria.]
officials <08269> [the rulers.]
guardians <0539> [them. Heb. nourishers.]
2 Kings 10:11
nobles ... friends ... priests <01419 03045 03548> [and.]
friends <03045> [kinsfolks. or, acquaintance. his priests.]
left ................ left <07604> [he left.]
2 Kings 10:34
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2 Kings 14:8
Amaziah <0558> [A.M. 3178. B.C. 826. Amaziah.]
<03212> [Come.]
2 Kings 15:12
fulfillment .... word <01697> [A.M. 3120. B.C. 884. the word.]
[Thy son.]
[And so.]
