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2 Kings 9:7

in 2 Kings 9

And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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 Jehovah, at the hand of Jezebel.

KJV

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 Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.

This verse in 2 Kings 9

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Thou shalt smite the house of Ahab - For their most cruel murders they have forfeited their own lives, according to that immutable law, “He that sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed.” This and the two following verses contain the commission which Jehu received from the Lord against the bloody house of Ahab.

This site's exposition

shalt smite the house of Ahab

on 2 Kings 9:7-10

The commission names the charge precisely: not the calf worship first raised against Jeroboam, but the blood of the Lord's prophets and servants, shed at Jezebel's hand. The sentence on Ahab's house borrows the exact extermination formula already used against Jeroboam's house and Baasha's, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left, so a reader of Kings recognizes a third dynasty condemned by the same words. The last line names what this book has been waiting to happen, the dogs eating Jezebel in Jezreel, and the young prophet is gone before the door shuts behind him.

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 Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

That they were idolaters was bad enough, and merited all that was brought upon them; yet that is not mentioned here, but the controversy God has with them is for their being persecutors, not so much their throwing down God's altars as their slaying his prophets with the sword.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Those whom God sends on his errands shall not go without full instructions. (3.) He also ordered him, [1.] To do it privately, to single out Jehu from the rest of the captains and anoint him in an inner chamber (

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The words behind it

15 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.

  • וְהִ֨כִּיתָ֔הand you will strike down

    vehikitahH5221499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH10042046 times

  • אַחְאָ֖בAhab

    ʾachavH25692 times

  • אֲדֹנֶ֑יךָmaster<s> your

    ʾadoneikhaH113333 times

  • וְנִקַּמְתִּ֞יand I will avenge

    venikamtiH5358

  • דְּמֵ֣י׀[the] blood<s> of

    demeiH1818360 times

  • עֲבָדַ֣יservants my

    ʾavadaiH5650799 times

  • הַנְּבִיאִ֗יםthe prophets

    haneviimH5030314 times

  • וּדְמֵ֛יand [the] blood<s> of

    udemeiH1818360 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • עַבְדֵ֥י[the] servants of

    ʾavdeiH5650799 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • מִיַּ֥דfrom [the] hand of

    miyadH30271618 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

    Deuteronomy 32:43

    Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries…

    it leads to

    • Romans 12:19

      Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

    • Revelation 19:2

      For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her…

    • Revelation 6:10

      And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

    • Psalms 85:1

      You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.

    • Deuteronomy 32:35

      Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

  • Through

    1 Kings 21:21

    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 14:10

      Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house…

    • Exodus 20:5–6

      You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…

  • Through

    1 Kings 18:4

    for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 18:13

      Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them…

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 9:1-24; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.