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2 Kings 9:3

in 2 Kings 9

Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith Jehovah, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

KJV

Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

This verse in 2 Kings 9

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Flee, and tarry not - The probable object of these directions was at once to prevent questioning, and to render the whole thing more striking.

This site's exposition

Tuck your cloak under your belt

on 2 Kings 9:1-3

Elisha sends one of the sons of the prophets to Ramoth-gilead with a flask of oil. The anointing is to be done and over before the army around Jehu can ask a question. Jewish tradition names the messenger Jonah the son of Amittai, a reading Gill records without pressing it.

This site's exposition

I anoint you king over Israel

Elisha gives the prophet only the opening words of the oracle. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that the full message, with its sentence on the house of Ahab, comes at verses 7 to 10. They read the order to run as a guard against capture by the spies and servants.

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

"Then the prophet Elisha called a member of the company of prophets and said to him, 'Gird up your loins; take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.' " Here the Scripture reports the just sentence that befalls the house of …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I have anointed thee king over Israel--This was only a part of the message; the full announcement of which is given (2Ki 9:7-10). flee, and tarry not--for fear of being surprised and overtaken by the spies or servants of the court.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וְלָקַחְתָּ֤and you will take

    velakachtaH3947 →966 times

  • פַךְ־[the] flask of

    fakh-H6378 →

  • הַשֶּׁ֙מֶן֙<the> oil

    hashemenH8081 →193 times

  • וְיָצַקְתָּ֣and you will pour [it]

    veyatzaktaH3332 →50 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • רֹאשׁ֔וֹhead his

    roshoH7218 →599 times

  • וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙and you will say

    veamartaH559 →5305 times

  • כֹּֽה־thus

    koh-H3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • מְשַׁחְתִּ֥יךָֽI anoint you

    meshachtikhaH4886 →70 times

  • לְמֶ֖לֶךְto king

    lemelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וּפָתַחְתָּ֥and you will open

    ufatachtaH6605 →144 times

  • הַדֶּ֛לֶתthe door

    hadeletH1817 →88 times

  • וְנַ֖סְתָּהand you will flee

    venastahH5127 →159 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תְחַכֶּֽה׃you must delay

    techakehH2442 →

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

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Daniel 4:35

    All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain…

    it leads to

    • Job 42:2

      “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

    • Psalms 135:6

      The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.

    • Psalms 115:3

      Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.

    • Romans 11:33–36

      O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

    • Isaiah 40:15–17

      Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

  • Through

    Matthew 2:13

    When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 1:22

      Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

    • Acts 5:19

      But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,

    • Matthew 2:12

      And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.

Where this verse is studied

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

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 9:1-24; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.