And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
one The Jews say that this was Jonah, the prophet, the son of Amittai.
the children
2 Kings 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets …
2 Kings 6:1-3 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place …
1 Kings 20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor …
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.
2 Kings 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in …
1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, …
Jeremiah 1:17 You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all …
Luke 12:35-37 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning…
1 Peter 1:13 Why gird up the loins of your mind, be sober…
box of oil
1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed …
1 Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing …
1 Kings 1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and …
Ramoth-gilead
2 Kings 8:28,29 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael …
Deuteronomy 4:1,3 Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, …
1 Kings 22:4,20 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? …
And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
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.
pour it
Exodus 29:7 Then shall you take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
Leviticus 8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and anointed …
1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle …
1 Kings 19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shall you anoint to be king over Israel…
I have anointed
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …
1 Samuel 9:16 To morrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of …
1 Samuel 15:1,17 Samuel also said to Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king …
1 Samuel 16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and with of a …
Psalm 75:6,7 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor …
Proverbs 8:15,16 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice…
Jeremiah 27:5-7 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, …
Daniel 2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar …
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and …
Daniel 5:18 O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, …
John 19:10,11 Then said Pilate to him, Speak you not to me? know you not that I …
and flee
1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. …
Matthew 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appears …
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
the young man Hannaar 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 () hannaar, `the young man,' is not in {regimine}, but in {appositione,} with (), hannavee, `the prophet.'
And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
he arose
Acts 23:18,19 So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul …
I have anointed
2 Kings 9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus …
1 Kings 1:34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there …
1 Kings 19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shall you anoint to be king over Israel…
2 Chronicles 22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for …
Psalm 2:6 Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion.
Psalm 75:6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor …
Isaiah 45:1 Thus said the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I …
Daniel 2:21 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets …
Daniel 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the …
Daniel 4:32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with …
Daniel 5:20,21 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …
over the people
1 Kings 3:8 And your servant is in the middle of your people which you have chosen, …
1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be the LORD your God, which delighted in you, to set you …
1 Kings 14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, For as much …
1 Kings 16:2 For as much as I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince …
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.
I may avenge
Deuteronomy 32:35,43 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in …
Psalm 94:1-7 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, …
Matthew 23:35 That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth…
Luke 18:7,8 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to …
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: …
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that …
Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, …
Revelation 6:9,10 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the …
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …
at the hand
2 Kings 9:32-37 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? …
1 Kings 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that …
1 Kings 21:15,21,25 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and …
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:
I will cut off
1 Kings 14:10,11 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and …
1 Kings 21:21,22 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, …
him that pisseth
1 Samuel 25:22 So and more also do God to the enemies of David…
him that is shut up
2 Kings 14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: …
Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, …
And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
like the house
1 Kings 14:10,11 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and …
1 Kings 15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house …
1 Kings 21:22 And will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, …
and like the house
1 Kings 16:3-5,11,12 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity …
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
Is all well
2 Kings 9:17,19,22 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied …
2 Kings 4:26 Run now, I pray you, to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with …
2 Kings 5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running …
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 cause the bystanders to use this contemptuous language.
Isaiah 59:15 Yes, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: …
Jeremiah 29:26 The LORD has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, …
Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; …
Mark 3:21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: …
John 10:20 And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why hear you him?
Acts 17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, …
Acts 26:24 And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, …
1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are …
2 Corinthians 5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be …
And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
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 this case being used for carpets. In the Agamennon of AEschylus, 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.
Matthew 21:7,8 And brought the donkey, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, …
Mark 11:7,8 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; …
on the top The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Ju
Nehemiah 3:15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, …
blew with trumpets
2 Samuel 15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, …
1 Kings 1:34,39 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there …
Psalm 47:5-7 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet…
Psalm 98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
is king [heb] reigneth
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
conspired
2 Kings 9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who …
2 Kings 8:12-15 And Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? And he answered, Because I know …
2 Kings 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, …
2 Kings 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son …
1 Kings 15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired …
1 Kings 16:7,9,16 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the …
kept Ramoth-gilead
2 Kings 8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael …
1 Kings 22:3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know you that Ramoth …
But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
a watchman
2 Samuel 13:34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up …
2 Samuel 18:24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to …
Isaiah 21:6-9,11,12 For thus has the LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare …
Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb …
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never …
Ezekiel 33:2-9 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, …
Acts 20:26-31 Why I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men…
Take a horseman
2 Kings 7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the …
It is peace
2 Kings 9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, …
1 Samuel 16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. …
1 Samuel 17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, …
1 Kings 2:15 And he said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel …
Luke 10:5,6 And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house…
So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
driving. or, marching
Habakkuk 1:6 For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, …
Habakkuk 3:12 You did march through the land in indignation, you did thresh the …
for he driveth
2 Kings 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they …
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there …
Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, …
Daniel 11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: …
furiously [heb] in madness
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.
Make ready [heb] bind
1 Kings 20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus said the LORD, Even by …
Micah 1:13 O you inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: …
Joram
2 Chronicles 22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for …
met [heb] found
Numbers 20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus said …
the portion of Naboth
2 Kings 9:25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the …
1 Kings 21:1-7,15,18,19 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite …
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Is it peace
2 Kings 9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied …
What peace
2 Kings 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus said the …
Isaiah 57:19-21 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, …
the whoredoms
1 Kings 16:30-33 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above …
1 Kings 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that …
1 Kings 19:1,2 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and with how he had …
1 Kings 21:8-10,25 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal…
Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of the prostitutions of the well favored …
Revelation 2:20-23 Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer …
Revelation 17:4,5 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked …
Revelation 18:3,23 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, …
And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
the Lord
1 Kings 21:19,24-29 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Jeremiah 23:33-38 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, …
Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Malachi 1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
Ahaziah
2 Kings 8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which …
Numbers 16:26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from …
2 Chronicles 22:7-9 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for …
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …
garden house
1 Kings 21:2 And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may …
Ibleam
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, …
Judges 1:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her …
Megiddo. `In the kingdom of Samaria.'
2 Kings 23:29,30 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king …
Judges 1:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her …
Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach …
1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and …
2 Chronicles 22:9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) …
And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
Jezebel
1 Kings 19:1,2 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and with how he had …
painted her face [heb] put her eyes in painting
Jeremiah 4:30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself …
Ezekiel 23:40 And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from far, to …
tired
Isaiah 3:18-24 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling …
Ezekiel 24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your …
1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, …
1 Peter 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the …
And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
Who is on my side?
Exodus 32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the …
1 Chronicles 12:18 Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and …
2 Chronicles 11:12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them …
Psalm 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me?
Psalm 124:1,2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say…
eunuchs. or, chamberlains
Esther 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, …
Esther 2:15,21 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of …
Acts 12:20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but …
And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
he did eat
1 Kings 18:41 And Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is …
Esther 3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and …
Amos 6:4 That lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, …
this cursed woman
1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness …
Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Isaiah 65:15 And you shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen: for the Lord …
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …
she is a king's
1 Kings 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk …
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
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:
And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
the carcase
Psalm 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that …
Isaiah 14:18-20 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every …
Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all …
Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither …
Jeremiah 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an donkey, drawn and cast forth …
Jeremiah 36:20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the …
Ezekiel 32:23-30 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is …
