Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
4 Kings (2 Kings) Chapter 9
Overview
Kg2 9:1, Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth-gilead; Kg2 9:4, The prophet having done his message, flees; Kg2 9:11, Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth; Kg2 9:27, Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem; Kg2 9:30, Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs.
one: The Jews say that this was Jonah, the prophet, the son of Amittai.
the children: Kg2 4:1, Kg2 6:1-3
Gird up thy loins: As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing, it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in their work or on a journey. Kg2 4:29; Kg1 18:46; Jer 1:17; Luk 12:35-37; Pe1 1:13
box of oil: Sa1 10:1, Sa1 16:1; Kg1 1:39
Ramothgilead: Kg2 8:28, Kg2 8:29; Deu 4:1, Deu 4:3; Kg1 22:4, Kg1 22:20
Jehu: Jehoram having retired from the army, Jehu seems to have been left first in command, having been long employed by Ahab's family. Kg2 9:14; Kg1 19:16, Kg1 19:17
among his brethren: Kg2 9:5, Kg2 9:11
inner chamber: Heb. chamber in a chamber, Kg1 20:30, Kg1 22:25 *marg.
pour it: Exo 29:7; Lev 8:12; Sa1 16:13; Kg1 19:16
I have anointed: Kg2 8:13; Sa1 9:16, Sa1 15:1, Sa1 15:17, Sa1 16:12; Psa 75:6, Psa 75:7; Pro 8:15, Pro 8:16; Jer 27:5-7; Dan 2:1, Dan 4:35, Dan 5:18; Joh 19:10, Joh 19:11
and flee: Sa1 16:2; Mat 2:13, Mat 10:16
the young man: Hannaâr hannavee, not as some would render, "the servant of the prophet," but, as correctly rendered by our venerable translators, "the young man, the prophet;" for הנער, hannaâr, "the young man," is not in regimine, but in appositione, with הנביא, hannavee, "the prophet." Kg2 9:4
I have an errand: Jdg 3:19
he arose: Act 23:18, Act 23:19
I have anointed: Kg2 9:3; Kg1 1:34, Kg1 19:16; Ch2 22:7; Psa 2:6 *marg. Psa 75:6; Isa 45:1; Dan 2:21, Dan 4:17, Dan 4:32, Dan 5:20, Dan 5:21
over the people: Kg1 3:8, Kg1 10:9, Kg1 14:7, Kg1 16:2
I may avenge: Deu 32:35, Deu 32:43; Psa 94:1-7; Mat 23:35; Luk 18:7, Luk 18:8; Rom 12:19, Rom 13:4; Heb 10:30; Rev 6:9, Rev 6:10, Rev 18:20, Rev 19:2
at the hand: Kg2 9:32-37; Kg1 18:4, Kg1 21:15, Kg1 21:21, Kg1 21:25
I will cut off: Kg1 14:10, Kg1 14:11, Kg1 21:21, Kg1 21:22
him that pisseth: Sa1 25:22
him that is shut up: Kg2 14:26; Deu 32:36
like the house: Kg1 14:10, Kg1 14:11, Kg1 15:29, Kg1 21:22
and like the house: Kg1 16:3-5, Kg1 16:11, Kg1 16:12
the dogs: Kg2 9:35, Kg2 9:36; Kg1 21:23; Jer 22:19
Is all well: Kg2 9:17, Kg2 9:19, Kg2 9:22, Kg2 4:26, Kg2 5:21
this mad fellow: It is probable there was something peculiar in the young prophet's manner and address, similar to the vehement actions sometimes used by the prophets when under the Divine influence, which caused the bystanders to use this contemptuous language. Isa 59:15 *marg. Jer 29:26; Hos 9:7; Mar 3:21; Joh 10:20; Act 17:18, Act 26:24; Co1 4:10; Co2 5:13
Thus and thus: Kg2 9:6-10
and took every: The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of Aschylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way. Mat 21:7, Mat 21:8; Mar 11:7, Mar 11:8
on the top: The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel (Jdg 9:46, Jdg 9:51), commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs (Neh 3:15). It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city.
blew with trumpets: Sa2 15:10; Kg1 1:34, Kg1 1:39; Psa 47:5-7, Psa 98:6
is king: Heb. reigneth
conspired: Kg2 9:31, Kg2 8:12-15, Kg2 10:9, Kg2 15:30; Kg1 15:27, Kg1 16:7, Kg1 16:9, Kg1 16:16
kept Ramothgilead: Kg2 8:28; Kg1 22:3
Joram: Heb. Jehoram
had given: Heb. smote
none go forth: Heb. no escaper go forth, Sa1 27:9-11
And Ahaziah: Kg2 8:28, Kg2 8:29; Ch2 22:6, Ch2 22:7
a watchman: Sa2 13:34, Sa2 18:24; Isa 21:6-9, Isa 21:11, Isa 21:12, Isa 56:10, Isa 62:6; Eze 33:2-9; Act 20:26-31
Take an horseman: Kg2 7:14
Is it peace: Kg2 9:19; Sa1 16:4, Sa1 17:22; Kg1 2:15; Luk 10:5, Luk 10:6
What hast thou to do: Kg2 9:19, Kg2 9:22; Isa 48:22, Isa 59:8; Jer 16:5; Rom 3:17
driving: or, marching, Hab 1:6, Hab 3:12
for he driveth: Kg2 10:16; Ecc 9:10; Isa 54:16; Dan 11:44
furiously: Heb. in madness
Make ready: Heb. bind, Kg1 20:14 *marg. Mic 1:13
Joram: Ch2 22:7
met: Heb. found, Num 20:14 *marg.
the portion of Naboth: Kg2 9:25; Kg1 21:1-7, Kg1 21:15, Kg1 21:18, Kg1 21:19
Is it peace: Kg2 9:17
What peace: Kg2 9:18; Isa 57:19-21
the whoredoms: Kg1 16:30-33, Kg1 18:4, Kg1 19:1, Kg1 19:2, Kg1 21:8-10, Kg1 21:25; Nah 3:4; Rev 2:20-23, Rev 17:4, Rev 17:5; Rev 18:3, Rev 18:23
There is treachery: Kg2 11:14; Ch2 23:13
drew a bow with his full strength: Heb. filled his hand with a bow
smote: Kg1 22:34; Job 20:23-25; Psa 50:22; Pro 21:30; Ecc 8:12, Ecc 8:13; Th1 5:3
sunk: Heb. bowed
the Lord: Kg1 21:19, Kg1 21:24-29; Isa 13:1; Jer 23:33-38; Nah 1:1; Mal 1:1; Mat 11:30
blood of Naboth: Heb. bloods of Naboth
of his sons: Deu 24:16; Ch2 24:25, Ch2 25:4
I will requite: Exo 20:5; Deu 5:9; Eze 18:19
plat: or, portion
Ahaziah: Kg2 8:29; Num 16:26; Ch2 22:7-9; Pro 13:20; Co2 6:17
garden house: Kg1 21:2
Megiddo: "In the kingdom of Samaria." Kg2 23:29, Kg2 23:30; Jdg 1:27, Jdg 5:19; Kg1 4:12; Ch2 22:9
Kg2 12:21, Kg2 14:19, Kg2 14:20, Kg2 23:20; Ch2 25:28, Ch2 35:24
in the eleventh: Kg2 8:16, Kg2 8:24; Ch2 21:18, Ch2 21:19, Ch2 22:1, Ch2 22:2
began Ahaziah: "Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his sickness." Ch2 21:18, Ch2 21:19 "But in Joram's twelfth year, he began to reign alone. Kg2 8:25.
painted her face: Heb. put her eyes in painting, Jer 4:30; Eze 23:40
tired: Isa 3:18-24; Eze 24:17; Ti1 2:9, Ti1 2:10; Pe1 3:3
Zimri: Kg1 16:9-20
peace: Kg2 9:18-22
Who is on my side: Exo 32:26; Ch1 12:18; Ch2 11:12; Psa 118:6, Psa 124:1, Psa 124:2
eunuchs: or, chamberlains, Est 1:10, Est 2:15, Est 2:21; Act 12:20
Throw her down: Kg1 21:11
and on the horses: This terrible mode of punishment appears to have been but rarely used, though we occasionally meet with it during this and subsequent periods. The same punishment, it is well known, obtained among the Romans, who used to throw certain malefactors from the Tarpeian rock. This practice obtains among the Moors at Constantia, a town of Barbary; and is also of frequent occurrence in Persia.
and he trode: Kg2 9:26, Kg2 7:20; Isa 25:10; Lam 1:15; Mic 7:10; Mal 4:3; Mat 5:13; Heb 10:29
he did eat: Kg1 18:41; Est 3:15; Amo 6:4
this cursed woman: Kg1 21:25; Pro 10:7; Isa 65:15; Mat 25:41
she is a king's: Kg1 16:31
but they found: Job 31:3; Ecc 6:3; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 22:19, Jer 36:30; Act 12:23
This is: Kg1 21:23
by his: Heb. by the hand of his, Kg2 14:25; Lev 8:36; Sa2 12:25
the carcase: Psa 83:10; Ecc 6:3; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 8:2, Jer 16:4, Jer 22:19, Jer 36:20; Eze 32:23-30