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2 Kings 9:36

in 2 Kings 9

So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said, This is the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;

KJV

Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

This verse in 2 Kings 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This is the word of the Lord--(See 1Ki 21:23). Jehu's statement, however, was not a literal but a paraphrased quotation of Elijah's prophecy.

This site's exposition

by his servant Elijah the Tishbite

on 2 Kings 9:36-37

Jehu names the word and the man who spoke it, this is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, closing a sentence Elijah first pronounced at Naboth's vineyard and the narrator had already echoed once at Ahab's own death. The formula runs through three condemned houses in this book, Jeroboam's, Baasha's, and now Ahab's, and here alone the text spells out that not even a grave will hold Jezebel's name, so that they shall not say, this is Jezebel. Revelation 2:20 later carries that same name out of Jezreel entirely and gives it to a teacher inside a church at Thyatira, the same seduction under a borrowed title.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 9:32 · Written before 373.

proposed

Jehu, who had seen the woman who had spoken to him and had recognized her to be Jezebel, ordered the eunuchs who were beside her to throw her out of the window, and they immediately threw her with force and spattered the wall with her …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the L ORD , at the hand of Jezebel.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — scripture-overlap:95%@v7

Wherefore they came again, and told him,.... How things were, and what only could be found of Jezebel: and he said, this is the word of the Lord; or the fulfilment of it: which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying; as in 1Ki 21:23.

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.

  • וַיָּשֻׁבוּ֮and they returned

    vaiyashuvuH77251056 times

  • וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּand they told

    vaiyagiduH5046370 times

  • לוֹ֒to him

    lo

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • דְּבַר־[is] [the] word of

    devar-H16971440 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • ה֔וּאit

    hu'H19311879 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֗רhe spoke

    diberH16961141 times

  • בְּיַד־by [the] hand of

    beyad-H30271618 times

  • עַבְדּ֛וֹservant his

    avdoH5650799 times

  • אֵלִיָּ֥הוּElijah

    ʾeliyahuH45271 times

  • הַתִּשְׁבִּ֖יthe Tishbite

    hatishbiH86646 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH5595305 times

  • בְּחֵ֣לֶקin [the] territory of

    bechelekH250667 times

  • יִזְרְעֶ֔אלJezreel

    yizreelH315736 times

  • יֹאכְל֥וּthey will devour

    yokheluH398810 times

  • הַכְּלָבִ֖יםthe dogs

    hakelavimH361132 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • בְּשַׂ֥ר[the] flesh of

    besarH1320270 times

  • אִיזָֽבֶל׃Jezebel

    ʾizavelH34822 times

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

    Leviticus 8:36

    So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 12:32

      See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 14:25

    This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 3:17

      The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

    • Jonah 1:1

      Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,

    • 1 Kings 8:65

      So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more…

    • Joshua 19:13

      From there it crossed eastward to Gath-hepher and to Eth-kazin; it extended to Rimmon and curved around toward Neah.

    • Matthew 12:39–40

      Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 12:25

    and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 13:26

      Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all…

  • Through

    1 Kings 21:23

    And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 9:10

      And on the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour Jezebel, and there will be no one to bury her.’” Then the young prophet opened the door and ran.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 9:32; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.