2 Kings 9:22 BSB — MannaFest

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?”

BSB

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ASV

And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

KJV

And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

What peace, so long as the whoredoms - Though the words whoredom, adultery, and fornication, are frequently used to express idolatry, and false religion, in general; yet here they may be safely taken in their common and most obvious sense, as there is much reason to believe that Jezebel was the patroness and supporter of a very impure system of religion; and to this Jehu might refer, rather than to the calf-worship, to which himself was most favourably disposed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

He mentions not Joram's, but his mother's sins; because they were more notorious and infamous: and because they were the principal cause why God inflicted, and he was come to execute these judgments. The way of sin can never be the way of peace.

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

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֗י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
כִּרְא֤וֹת	kir.'ot	when saw	H7200 →
יְהוֹרָם֙	ye.ho.Ram	Jehoram	H3088 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יֵה֔וּא	ye.Hu'	Jehu	H3058 →
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
הֲשָׁל֣וֹם	ha.sha.Lom	¿ peace	H7965 →
יֵה֑וּא	ye.Hu'	O Jehu	H3058 →
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
מָ֣ה	mah	what?	H4100 →
הַשָּׁל֔וֹם	ha.sha.Lom	[is] <the> peace	H7965 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
זְנוּנֵ֞י	ze.nu.Nei	[the] prostitutions of	H2183 →
אִיזֶ֧בֶל	'i.Ze.vel	Jezebel	H348 →
אִמְּךָ֛	'i.me.Kha	mother your	H517 →
וּכְשָׁפֶ֖יהָ	u.khe.sha.Fei.ha	and sorceries her	H3785 →
הָרַבִּֽים׃	ha.ra.Bim	<the> many	H7227 →

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

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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
Nahum 3:4
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
leads to
- Isaiah 47:9
  These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the…
- Isaiah 47:12–13
  So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
- Revelation 18:23
  The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of…
- Revelation 17:1–5
  Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
- Ezekiel 16:25–29
  At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
Through
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…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 21:4
  When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 21:11
  Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
- 1 Kings 16:30–33
  However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 2 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 2 Kings