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2 Kings 9:16

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Then Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel, because Joram was laid up there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

KJV

So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

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This verse in 2 Kings 9

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
So Jehu rode in a chariot,.... In great pomp and majesty as a king: and went to Jezreel: set forward on a march thither with his captains, and part of his army at least, from Ramothgilead; which, according to Bunting (n), was twenty four miles: for Jordan lay there; to be cured of his wounds, as before observed: and Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram; see 2Ki 8:29. (n) Travels, &c. p. 166.

This site's exposition

Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him

Jehu rides for Jezreel, and the text sets Judah's king beside Israel's without comment, Ahaziah come down to visit his wounded uncle. Two kings of two houses, bound by marriage into the one house now under sentence, are gathered in the same place on the same day.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 9:1-24 · Written before 373.

proposed

So he went out with a group of select men. But he met Joram, king of Israel, in the course of his journey, and little later Ahaziah, king of Judah. He was able to defeat them after the first attack and killed them both.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Jehu - went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there - From the preceding verse we learn, that Joram had been wounded in his attack on Ramoth-gilead, and had gone to Jezreel to be cured; and neither he nor Ahaziah knew any thing of the conspiracy in Ramoth-gilead, because Jehu and his captains took care to prevent any person from leaving the city; so that the two kings at Jezreel knew nothing of what had taken place.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּרְכַּ֤בand he rode in a chariot

    vaiyirkavH7392 →78 times

  • יֵהוּא֙Jehu

    yehu'H3058 →58 times

  • וַיֵּ֣לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • יִזְרְעֶ֔אלָהJezreel towards

    yizreelahH3157 →36 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • יוֹרָ֖םJoram

    yoramH3141 →20 times

  • שֹׁכֵ֣ב[was] lying

    shokhevH7901 →212 times

  • שָׁ֑מָּהthere <towards>

    shamahH8033 →834 times

  • וַֽאֲחַזְיָה֙and Ahaziah

    vaachazyahH274 →37 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • יָרַ֖דhe had come down

    yaradH3381 →381 times

  • לִרְא֥וֹתto see

    lirotH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יוֹרָֽם׃Joram

    yoramH3141 →20 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About 2 Kings

The Death of Jezebel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Jezebel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 9 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 9:1-24; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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