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Afterward he said, “Someone go and bury this cursed woman, for she is the daughter of a king.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/2_kings/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/2_kings/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed <i>woman</i>, and bury her: for she <i>is</i> a king's daughter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/2_kings/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “Go now, see to this accursed <i>woman,</i> and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/2_kings/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, &#8220See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king&#8217s daughter.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/2_kings/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/2_kings/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Then he came in and ate and drank. And he said, “Take care now of this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/2_kings/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />When he came in, he ate and drank, and said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/2_kings/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then he went in, ate and drank, and said, “Take care of this cursed woman and bury her, since she’s a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then he went in, ate and drank, and said, &#8220Take care of this cursed woman and bury her, since she&#8217s a king&#8217s daughter.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_kings/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/2_kings/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Jehu left to get something to eat and drink. Then he told some workers, "Even though she was evil, she was a king's daughter, so make sure she has a proper burial." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_kings/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/2_kings/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />He went inside, ate, and drank. Then he said, "Take care of this woman who had a curse on her. After all, she was a king's daughter."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/2_kings/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />entered the palace, and had a meal. Only then did he say, "Take that cursed woman and bury her; after all, she is a king's daughter." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/2_kings/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Later on, after he had come in to eat and drink, he ordered, "Go and see to this cursed woman, and bury her, because she was a king's daughter." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/2_kings/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. ?Take care of this cursed woman,? he said, ?and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/2_kings/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />He went inside and had a meal. Then he said, "Dispose of this accursed woman's corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king's daughter."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/2_kings/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />When he had come in, he ate and drink; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_kings/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And when he had come in, he ate, and drank, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_kings/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/2_kings/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And he comes in, and eats, and drinks, and says, “Now look after this cursed one and bury her, for she [is] a king’s daughter.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_kings/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And he cometh in, and eateth, and drinketh, and saith, 'Look after, I pray you, this cursed one, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/2_kings/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And he will go in and eat and drink, and he will say, Review now this curse, and bury her, for she the daughter of a king.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_kings/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when he was come in, to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her: because she is a king's daughter. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/2_kings/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And when he had entered, so that he might eat and drink, he said: “Go, and see to that cursed woman, and bury her. For she is the daughter of a king.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />and, after eating and drinking, he said: “Attend to that accursed woman and bury her; for she was the daughter of a king.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then he went in and ate and drank; he said, “See to that cursed woman and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Then he went in to eat and drink, and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/2_kings/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And he went in and he ate and he drank, and said: “See to her, this cursed one, and bury her, because she is the daughter of a King.”<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/2_kings/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said: 'Look now after this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/2_kings/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And <i>Ju</i> went in and ate and drank, and said, Look now, after this cursed woman, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/9-34.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=3279" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/2_kings/9.htm">The Murder of Jezebel</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">33</span>“Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot. <span class="reftext">34</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: way·yā·ḇō (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">Then Jehu went in</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: way·yō·ḵal (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">and ate</a> <a href="/hebrew/8354.htm" title="8354: way·yê·šət (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To drink. A primitive root; to imbibe.">and drank.</a> <a href="/hebrew/6485.htm" title="6485: piq·ḏū- (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To attend to, visit, muster, appoint. A primitive root; to visit; by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.">“Take care of</a> <a href="/hebrew/4994.htm" title="4994: nā (Interjection) -- I (we) pray, now. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2063.htm" title="2063: haz·zōṯ (Art:: Pro-fs) -- Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that. Irregular feminine of zeh; this.">this</a> <a href="/hebrew/779.htm" title="779: hā·’ă·rū·rāh (Art:: V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-fs) -- To curse. A primitive root; to execrate.">cursed woman,”</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">he said,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6912.htm" title="6912: wə·qiḇ·rū·hā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp:: 3fs) -- To bury. A primitive root; to intern.">“and bury her,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hî (Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. ">she was</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: ḇaṯ- (N-fsc) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">the daughter</a> <a href="/hebrew/4428.htm" title="4428: me·leḵ (N-ms) -- King. From malak; a king.">of a king.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">35</span>But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/21-23.htm">1 Kings 21:23</a></span><br />And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/21-19.htm">1 Kings 21:19</a></span><br />Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/9-7.htm">2 Kings 9:7-10</a></span><br />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. / The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel. / I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/9-36.htm">2 Kings 9:36-37</a></span><br />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. / And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31-33</a></span><br />And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. / First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. / Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-23</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/10-10.htm">2 Kings 10:10-11</a></span><br />Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.” / So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22</a></span><br />When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm">2 Kings 9:30-33</a></span><br />Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window. / And as Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, O Zimri, murderer of your master?” / He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/8-1.htm">Jeremiah 8:1-2</a></span><br />“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. / They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/14-11.htm">1 Kings 14:11</a></span><br />Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/23-16.htm">2 Kings 23:16-18</a></span><br />And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things. / Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.” / “Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/21-23.htm">2 Kings 21:23-24</a></span><br />Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace. / But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/23-20.htm">2 Kings 23:20</a></span><br />On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/10-17.htm">2 Kings 10:17</a></span><br />When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">he did eat</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/18-41.htm">1 Kings 18:41</a></b></br> And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for <i>there is</i> a sound of abundance of rain.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/esther/3-15.htm">Esther 3:15</a></b></br> The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/6-4.htm">Amos 6:4</a></b></br> That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;</p><p class="hdg">this cursed woman</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/21-25.htm">1 Kings 21:25</a></b></br> But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/10-7.htm">Proverbs 10:7</a></b></br> The memory of the just <i>is</i> blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/65-15.htm">Isaiah 65:15</a></b></br> And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:</p><p class="hdg">she is a king's</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31</a></b></br> And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/7-8.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm">Body</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-28.htm">Bury</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-9.htm">Care</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-24.htm">Cursed</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-26.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-23.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/2_kings/7-8.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-8.htm">Drinketh</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-28.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-8.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm">Food</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-33.htm">Jehu</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-15.htm">King's</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/23-9.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-35.htm">Body</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-35.htm">Bury</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-23.htm">Care</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/2-7.htm">Cursed</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-2.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-24.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/2_kings/16-13.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/job/6-4.htm">Drinketh</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-35.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-36.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/job/5-5.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm">Food</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-36.htm">Jehu</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-6.htm">King's</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/9-1.htm">Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth Gilead</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/9-4.htm">The prophet having done his message, flees</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/9-11.htm">Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth</a></span><br><span class="reftext">27. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/9-27.htm">Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">30. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm">Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of ancient Near Eastern customs, sharing a meal often signified a time of reflection or celebration. Jehu had just executed Jezebel, fulfilling the prophecy against her. His decision to eat and drink may indicate a sense of completion or satisfaction in carrying out God's judgment. This moment also contrasts with the urgency of his previous actions, highlighting a shift from action to contemplation.<p><b>“Take care of this cursed woman,” he said,</b><br>The term "cursed woman" refers to Jezebel, who was notorious for her idolatry and persecution of the prophets of Yahweh. Her actions had brought a curse upon herself, as prophesied by Elijah in <a href="/1_kings/21-23.htm">1 Kings 21:23</a>. Jehu's command to "take care" of her body, despite her being cursed, reflects a recognition of her status and the need to adhere to burial customs, even for those who were considered enemies or accursed.<p><b>“and bury her,</b><br>In ancient Israelite culture, burial was an important practice, even for those who had died under judgment. Proper burial was seen as a sign of respect and a way to ensure rest for the deceased. Jehu's command to bury Jezebel, despite her wickedness, underscores the cultural importance of burial rites. It also fulfills the prophecy that her body would be eaten by dogs, leaving nothing to bury, as a sign of her disgrace (<a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm">2 Kings 9:10</a>).<p><b>for she was the daughter of a king.”</b><br>Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, which gave her a royal status. This acknowledgment by Jehu highlights the political and familial connections that Jezebel had, which were significant in the ancient world. Her royal lineage did not exempt her from judgment, but it did warrant a certain level of respect in death. This phrase also serves as a reminder of the influence and reach of foreign powers and their gods within Israel, which Jezebel had embodied and promoted.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jehu.htm">Jehu</a></b><br>Anointed king of Israel, tasked with eradicating the house of Ahab and executing divine judgment.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/jezebel.htm">Jezebel</a></b><br>The wife of King Ahab, known for her idolatry and persecution of the prophets of Yahweh. Her death fulfills Elijah's prophecy.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/j/jezreel.htm">Jezreel</a></b><br>The location where Jezebel met her demise, significant for its association with the house of Ahab and the fulfillment of prophecy.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_justice_and_prophecy_fulfillment.htm">Divine Justice and Prophecy Fulfillment</a></b><br>God's justice is sure and His prophecies are fulfilled in His timing. Jehu's actions demonstrate the certainty of God's word.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry_and_wickedness.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry and Wickedness</a></b><br>Jezebel's life and death serve as a stark warning against idolatry and leading others away from God. Her end was a direct result of her actions and rebellion against God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_obedience_in_god's_plan.htm">The Role of Obedience in God's Plan</a></b><br>Jehu's obedience to God's command, despite the gruesome task, highlights the importance of following God's directives even when they are difficult.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_respect_for_the_dead.htm">The Importance of Respect for the Dead</a></b><br>Despite Jezebel's wickedness, Jehu's command to bury her acknowledges her royal status, teaching us about the importance of respecting the dead.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 9</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_was_king_jehoram_joram.htm">Who was King Jehoram/Joram in biblical history?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_verify_jehu's_kingship_historically.htm">How can the sudden acceptance of Jehu as king (2 Kings 9:1-13) be historically verified beyond the biblical text?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_jehu's_overthrow_of_joram.htm">Is there archaeological evidence supporting Jehu's violent overthrow of Joram and the circumstances of Jezebel's death (2 Kings 9:21-37)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_jehu's_judgment_fit_divine_mercy.htm">How do we reconcile the harsh judgment carried out by Jehu in 2 Kings 9 with biblical themes of mercy and divine justice?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(34) <span class= "bld">And when . . . drink.</span>--Rather, <span class= "ital">And he went in</span> (into the palace), <span class= "ital">and ate and drank</span>. Jehu takes possession of the palace, having slain its former occupants. Savage warrior as he was, he forgot all about the victim of his violence until he had appeased the demands of his appetite. Then he could remember that even Jezebel was of royal rank, and perhaps a touch of remorse may be discerned in the mandate for her burial.<p><span class= "bld">Go, see now.</span>--Rather, <span class= "ital">Look, I pray, after.</span><p><span class= "bld">This cursed woman.</span>--Jehu was thinking of the curse pronounced on Jezebel by the prophet Elijah. (See next verse.)<p><span class= "bld">She is a king's daughter.</span>--Compare <a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm" title="And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.">1Kings 16:31</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 34.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And when he was come in</span> - <span class="accented">i.e.</span> when Jehu had established himself in the royal palace - <span class="cmt_word">he did eat and drink, and said.</span> His first care was to refresh himself - to order a banquet to be served, and to satisfy his appetite with food and drink. Not till afterwards did he bethink himself of the bloody corpse of his late queen and mistress, lying on the cold ground uncared for and untended, exposed to scorn and ignominy. When the thought occurred to him, it brought about a certain amount of relenting. <span class="cmt_word">Go, see now this cursed woman.</span> He calls Jezebel, "a cursed woman," not inappropriately. She had brought a curse on her husband, on her sons, and on her grandsons; she had been the evil genius of two countries, Israel and Judah; she had been the prime mover in a bloody persecution of the worshippers of Jehovah; and was the true original source of the present revolution, which was to result in the deaths of so many others. <span class="cmt_word">And bury her: for she is a king's daughter.</span> As queen-mother, Jehu, it seems, would not have regarded Jezebel as entitled to burial; but as daughter of Eth-Baal, King of the Zidonians (<a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31</a>), and so a princess born, he allowed her claim. Perhaps he feared lest further insult to the corpse might provoke the resentment of the Phoenician monarch, and draw down upon him that prince's hostility. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/2_kings/9-34.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Then [Jehu] went in</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיָּבֹ֖א</span> <span class="translit">(way·yā·ḇō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in, come, go in, go</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and ate</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֹּ֣אכַל</span> <span class="translit">(way·yō·ḵal)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and drank.</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֵּ֑שְׁתְּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yê·šət)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8354.htm">Strong's 8354: </a> </span><span class="str2">To imbibe</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“Take care of</span><br /><span class="heb">פִּקְדוּ־</span> <span class="translit">(piq·ḏū-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6485.htm">Strong's 6485: </a> </span><span class="str2">To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">this</span><br /><span class="heb">הַזֹּאת֙</span> <span class="translit">(haz·zōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2063.htm">Strong's 2063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, </span><br /><br /><span class="word">cursed [woman],”</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֲרוּרָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ă·rū·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_779.htm">Strong's 779: </a> </span><span class="str2">To execrate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he said,</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֹּ֗אמֶר</span> <span class="translit">(way·yō·mer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“and bury her,</span><br /><span class="heb">וְקִבְר֔וּהָ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·qiḇ·rū·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6912.htm">Strong's 6912: </a> </span><span class="str2">To inter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">she [was]</span><br /><span class="heb">הִֽיא׃</span> <span class="translit">(hî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the daughter</span><br /><span class="heb">בַת־</span> <span class="translit">(ḇaṯ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of a king.”</span><br /><span class="heb">מֶ֖לֶךְ</span> <span class="translit">(me·leḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> </span><span class="str2">A king</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/2_kings/9-34.htm">2 Kings 9:34 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_kings/9-34.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 9:34 When he was come in he ate (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_kings/9-33.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 9:33"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 9:33" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_kings/9-35.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 9:35"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 9:35" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>