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  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 by the soldiers, kills Joram in the
    field of Naboth.
27  Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem.
30  Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by
    dogs.


VERSE 1
- one.
  The Jews say that this was Jonah, the prophet, the son of
  Amittai.

- the children.
   * 2Ki 4:1; 6:1-3
- See on
   * 1Ki 20:35
- Gird up thy loins.
  As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing,
  it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a
  girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in
  their work or on a journey.

   * 2Ki 4:29 1Ki 18:46 Jer 1:17 Lu 12:35-37 1Pe 1:13
- box of oil.
   * 1Sa 10:1; 16:1 1Ki 1:39
- Ramoth-gilead.
   * 2Ki 8:28,29 De 4:1,3 1Ki 22:4,20


VERSE 2 
 - Jehu.
  Jehoram having retired from the army, Jehu seems to have been
  left first in command, having been long employed by Ahab's
  family.

   * :14 1Ki 19:16,17
- among his brethren.
   * :5,11
- inner chamber.  Heb. chamber in a chamber.
   * 1Ki 20:30; 22:25 *margins


VERSE 3 
 - pour it.
   * Ex 29:7 Le 8:12 1Sa 16:13 1Ki 19:16
- I have anointed.
   * 2Ki 8:13 1Sa 9:16; 15:1,17; 16:12 Ps 75:6,7 Pr 8:15,16 Jer 27:5-7
   * Da 2:1; 4:35; 5:18 Joh 19:10,11
- and flee.
   * 1Sa 16:2 Mt 2:13; 10:16


VERSE 4 
 - the young man.
  {Hann„ƒr hannavee,} not as some would render, "the servant of
  the prophet," but, as correctly rendered by our venerable
  translators, "the young man, the prophet;" for [            ,]
  hann„ƒr, "the young man," is not in {regimine,} but in
  {appositione,} with [            ,] {hannavee,} "the prophet."

   * :4


VERSE 5 
 - I have an errand.
   * Jud 3:19


VERSE 6 
 - he arose.
   * Ac 23:18,19
- I have anointed.  See on ver.
   * :3 1Ki 1:34; 19:16 2Ch 22:7 Ps 2:6 *marg:
   * Ps 75:6 Isa 45:1 Da 2:21; 4:17,32; 5:20,21
- over the people.
   * 1Ki 3:8; 10:9; 14:7; 16:2


VERSE 7 
 - I may avenge.
   * De 32:35,43 Ps 94:1-7 Mt 23:35 Lu 18:7,8 Ro 12:19; 13:4
   * Heb 10:30 Re 6:9,10; 18:20; 19:2
- at the hand.
   * :32-37 1Ki 18:4; 21:15,21,25


VERSE 8 
 - I will cut off.  See on
   * 1Ki 14:10,11; 21:21,22
- him that pisseth.
   * 1Sa 25:22
- him that is shut up.
   * 2Ki 14:26 De 32:36


VERSE 9 
 - like the house.
   * 1Ki 14:10,11; 15:29; 21:22
- and like the house.
   * 1Ki 16:3-5,11,12


VERSE 10 
 - the dogs.
   * :35,36 1Ki 21:23 Jer 22:19
- he opened.
   * :3 Jud 3:26


VERSE 11 
 - Is all well.
   * :17,19,22; 4:26; 5:21
- this mad fellow.
  It is probable there was something peculiar in the young
  prophet's manner and address, similar to the vehement actions
  sometimes used by the prophets when under the Divine
  influence, which caused the bystanders to use this
  contemptuous language.

   * Isa 59:15 *marg:
   * Jer 29:26 Ho 9:7 Mr 3:21 Joh 10:20 Ac 17:18; 26:24 1Co 4:10
   * 2Co 5:13


VERSE 12 
 - Thus and thus.  See on ver.
   * :6-10


VERSE 13 
 - and took every.
  The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to
  whom it was intended to shew particular honor, 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.

   * Mt 21:7,8 Mr 11:7,8
- 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.

- blew with trumpets.
   * 2Sa 15:10 1Ki 1:34,39 Ps 47:5-7; 98:6
- is king.  Heb. reigneth.


VERSE 14 
 - conspired.
   * :31; 8:12-15; 10:9; 15:30 1Ki 15:27; 16:7,9,16
- kept Ramoth-gilead.
   * 2Ki 8:28 1Ki 22:3


VERSE 15 
 - Joram.  Heb. Jehoram.  returned.
   * 2Ki 8:29 2Ch 22:6
- had given.  Heb. smote.  none go forth.  Heb. no escaper go
  forth.
   * 1Sa 27:9-11


VERSE 16 
 - And Ahaziah.
   * 2Ki 8:28,29 2Ch 22:6,7


VERSE 17 
 - a watchman.
   * 2Sa 13:34; 18:24 Isa 21:6-9,11,12; 56:10; 62:6 Eze 33:2-9
   * Ac 20:26-31
- Take an horseman.
   * 2Ki 7:14
- Is it peace.
   * :19 1Sa 16:4; 17:22 1Ki 2:15 Lu 10:5,6


VERSE 18 
 - What hast thou to do.
   * :19,22 Isa 48:22; 59:8 Jer 16:5 Ro 3:17

VERSE 19


VERSE 20 
 - driving.  or, marching.
   * Hab 1:6; 3:12
- for he driveth.
   * 2Ki 10:16 Ec 9:10 Isa 54:16 Da 11:44
- furiously.  Heb. in madness.


VERSE 21 
 - Make ready.  Heb. bind.
   * 1Ki 20:14 *marg:
   * Mic 1:13
- Joram.
   * 2Ch 22:7
- met.  Heb. found.
   * Nu 20:14 *marg:
- the portion of Naboth.
   * :25 1Ki 21:1-7,15,18,19


VERSE 22 
 - Is it peace.  See on ver.
   * :17
- What peace.
   * :18 Isa 57:19-21
- the whoredoms.
   * 1Ki 16:30-33; 18:4; 19:1,2; 21:8-10,25 Na 3:4 Re 2:20-23; 17:4,5
   * Re 18:3,23


VERSE 23 
 - There is treachery.
   * 2Ki 11:14 2Ch 23:13


VERSE 24 
 - drew a bow with his full strength.  Heb. filled his hand with
  a bow.  smote.
   * 1Ki 22:34 Job 20:23-25 Ps 50:22 Pr 21:30 Ec 8:12,13 1Th 5:3
- sunk.  Heb. bowed.


VERSE 25 
 - the Lord.
   * 1Ki 21:19,24-29 Isa 13:1 Jer 23:33-38 Na 1:1 Mal 1:1 Mt 11:30


VERSE 26 
 - blood of Naboth.  Heb. bloods of Naboth.  of his sons.
   * De 24:16 2Ch 24:25; 25:4
- I will repay.
   * Ex 20:5 De 5:9 Eze 18:19
- plat.  or, portion.


VERSE 27 
 - Ahaziah.
   * 2Ki 8:29 Nu 16:26 2Ch 22:7-9 Pr 13:20 2Co 6:17
- garden house.
   * 1Ki 21:2
- Ibleam.
   * Jos 17:11 Jud 1:27
- Megiddo.
  "In the kingdom of Samaria."

   * 2Ki 23:29,30 Jud 1:27; 5:19 1Ki 4:12 2Ch 22:9

VERSE 28
    * 2Ki 12:21; 14:19,20; 23:20 2Ch 25:28; 35:24


VERSE 29 
 - in the eleventh.
   * 2Ki 8:16,24 2Ch 21:18,19; 22:1,2
- began Ahaziah.
  "Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his
  sickness."

   * 2Ch 21:18,19
  "But in Joram's twelfth year, he began to reign alone.  ch.
  25 8:25."


VERSE 30 
 - Jezebel.
   * 1Ki 19:1,2
- painted her face.  Heb. put her eyes in painting.
   * Jer 4:30 Eze 23:40
- tired.
   * Isa 3:18-24 Eze 24:17 1Ti 2:9,10 1Pe 3:3


VERSE 31 
 - Zimri.
   * 1Ki 16:9-20
- peace.  See on ver.
   * :18-22


VERSE 32 
 - Who is on my side?
   * Ex 32:26 1Ch 12:18 2Ch 11:12 Ps 118:6; 124:1,2
- eunuchs.  or, chamberlains.
   * Es 1:10; 2:15,21 Ac 12:20


VERSE 33 
 - Throw her down.  See on
   * 1Ki 21:11
- and on the horses.
  This terrible mode of punishment appears to have been but
  rarely used, though we occasionally meet with it during this
  and subsequent periods.  The same punishment, it is well
  known, obtained among the Romans, who used to throw certain
  malefactors from the Tarpeian rock.  This practice obtains
  among the Moors at Constantia, a town of Barbary; and is also
  of frequent occurrence in Persia.

- and he trode.
   * :26; 7:20 Isa 25:10 La 1:15 Mic 7:10 Mal 4:3 Mt 5:13 Heb 10:29


VERSE 34 
 - he did eat.
   * 1Ki 18:41 Es 3:15 Am 6:4
- this cursed woman.
   * 1Ki 21:25 Pr 10:7 Isa 65:15 Mt 25:41
- she is a king's.
   * 1Ki 16:31


VERSE 35 
 - but they found.
   * Job 31:3 Ec 6:3 Isa 14:18-20 Jer 22:19; 36:30 Ac 12:23


VERSE 36 
 - This is.  See on
   * 1Ki 21:23
- by his.  Heb. by the hand of his.
   * 2Ki 14:25 Le 8:36 2Sa 12:25


VERSE 37 
 - the carcase.
   * Ps 83:10 Ec 6:3 Isa 14:18-20 Jer 8:2; 16:4; 22:19; 36:20
   * Eze 32:23-30



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