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2 Kings 9:21

in 2 Kings 9

“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Joram said, Make ready. And they made ready his chariot. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.

KJV

And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.

This verse in 2 Kings 9

Commentary

8 notes on this verse
Make ready - literally, (as in margin) “Blind,” i. e., “Harness the horses to the chariot.” The king had no suspicion of Jehu’s treason. Probably he imagined that he was bringing him important news from the seat of war. Ahaziah’s accompanying him is significant of the close friendship which united the uncle and the nephew.

This site's exposition

in the portion of Naboth

Joram and Ahaziah ride out together and meet Jehu in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite, the exact ground Ahab took by false witness and murder in the chapter where Elijah once stood on this same soil to condemn him. Wesley calls the coincidence of ground itself a kind of preaching, the circumstances of providence making the punishment answer the sin as face answers face in a glass. Nothing in the text says the location was chosen on purpose; the narrator simply names it and lets a reader who remembers that earlier chapter supply the rest.

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 Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Portion of Naboth - The very sight of that ground was enough to make Jehu triumph and Joram tremble. The circumstances of events are sometimes so ordered by Divine providence, as to make the punishment answer the sin, as face answers face in a glass.
And Joram said, make ready,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

What peace can sinners have with God, what peace with their own consciences, what good, what comfort, can they expect in life, in death, or after death, who go on still in their trespasses? No peace so long as sin is persisted in; but, as soon as it is repented of and forsaken, there is peace.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

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.
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Joram - and Ahaziah - went out - They had no suspicion of what was done at Ramoth-gilead; else they would not have ventured their persons as they now did.

The words behind it

21 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.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְהוֹרָם֙Jehoram

    yehoramH308829 times

  • אֱסֹ֔רharness

    ʾesorH63172 times

  • וַיֶּאְסֹ֖רand someone harnessed

    vaiye'sorH63172 times

  • רִכְבּ֑וֹchariot his

    rikhboH7393119 times

  • וַיֵּצֵ֣אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H33181067 times

  • יְהוֹרָ֣םJehoram

    yehoramH308829 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יִ֠שְׂרָאֵלIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וַאֲחַזְיָ֨הוּand Ahaziah

    vaachazyahuH27437 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֜הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • אִ֣ישׁeach

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • בְּרִכְבּ֗וֹin chariot his

    berikhboH7393119 times

  • וַיֵּֽצְאוּ֙and they went out

    vaiyetzeuH33181067 times

  • לִקְרַ֣אתto meet

    likratH7122139 times

  • יֵה֔וּאJehu

    yehu'H305858 times

  • וַיִּמְצָאֻ֔הוּand they found him

    vaiyimtzauhuH4672455 times

  • בְּחֶלְקַ֖תin [the] portion of land of

    bechelkatH251329 times

  • נָב֥וֹתNaboth

    navotH502222 times

  • הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִֽי׃the Jezreelite

    haiyizreeliH3158

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

    2 Chronicles 22:7

    Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 10:15

      So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the…

    • Psalms 9:16

      The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

    • Isaiah 46:10

      I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

  • Through

    Micah 1:13

    Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 18:17

      Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by…

    • Joshua 10:3

      Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

    • 2 Chronicles 32:9

      Later, as Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem with a message for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were…

  • Through

    Numbers 20:14

    From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

    it leads to

    • Judges 11:16–17

      But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

    • Deuteronomy 23:7

      Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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 (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.