2 Kings 9:18 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 9:18

So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”

BSB

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ASV

So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not back.

KJV

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

What hast thou to do with peace? - “What is it to thee whether there be peace or war? Join my company, and fall into the rear.”

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

A report was made to Joram in his palace below. A messenger on horseback was quickly despatched down into the plain to meet the ambiguous host and to question the object of their approach. "Is it peace?" We may safely assume that this messenger would meet Jehu at the distance of three miles or more.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּלֶךְ֩	vai.ye.leKh	and he went	H1980 →
רֹכֵ֨ב	ro.Khev	[the] rider of	H7392 →
הַסּ֜וּס	ha.Sus	the horse	H5483 →
לִקְרָאת֗וֹ	lik.ra.To	to meet him	H7122 →
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
כֹּֽה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֤ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
הֲשָׁל֔וֹם	ha.sha.Lom	¿ peace	H7965 →
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יֵה֛וּא	ye.Hu'	Jehu	H3058 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
לְּךָ֥	le.Kha	[is] to you
וּלְשָׁל֖וֹם	u.le.sha.Lom	and to peace	H7965 →
סֹ֣ב	so	go around	H5437 →
אֶֽל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אַחֲרָ֑י	'a.cha.Rai	after me	H310 →
וַיַּגֵּ֤ד	vai.ya.Ged	and he reported	H5046 →
הַצֹּפֶה֙	ha.tzo.Peh	the watchman	H6822 →
לֵאמֹ֔ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
בָּֽא־	ba'-	he came	H935 →
הַמַּלְאָ֥ךְ	ha.mal.'Akh	the messenger	H4397 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
הֵ֖ם	hem	they	H1992 →
וְלֹֽא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
שָֽׁב׃	Shav	he has turned back	H7725 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 48:22
“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
leads to
- Isaiah 57:21
  “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Job 15:20–24
  A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
- Luke 19:42
  and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
- Romans 3:17
  and the way of peace they have not known.”
Through
Romans 3:17
and the way of peace they have not known.”
leads to
- Isaiah 59:8
  The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
- Romans 5:1
  Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Through
Jeremiah 16:5
Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My…
leads to
- Ezekiel 24:16–23
  “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
Through
2 Kings 9:22
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 21:13
  but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have…