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And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? <a href="/nkjv/2_kings/9.htm">New King James Version</a> Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” So he answered, “What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?” <a href="/nasb_/2_kings/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is your intention peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What ‘peace,’ so long as your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?” <a href="/nasb/2_kings/9.htm">NASB 1995</a> When Joram saw Jehu, he said, &#8220Is it peace, Jehu?&#8221 And he answered, &#8220What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?&#8221 <a href="/nasb77/2_kings/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And it came about, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?” <a href="/lsb/2_kings/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Now it happened that when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?” <a href="/amp/2_kings/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a> When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace [can exist] as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?” <a href="/csb/2_kings/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu? ” He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel? ” <a href="/hcsb/2_kings/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> When Joram saw Jehu he asked, &#8220Do you come in peace, Jehu?&#8221 He answered, &#8220What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and witchcraft from your mother Jezebel?&#8221 <a href="/asv/2_kings/9.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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? <a href="/cev/2_kings/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Joram asked, "Jehu, is this a peaceful visit?" "How can there be peace?" Jehu asked. "Your mother Jezebel has caused everyone to worship idols and practice witchcraft." <a href="/erv/2_kings/9.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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? <a href="/gwt/2_kings/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, "Is everything alright, Jehu?" Jehu answered, "How can everything be alright as long as your mother continues her idolatry and witchcraft?" <a href="/gnt/2_kings/9.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Are you coming in peace?" Joram asked him. "How can there be peace," Jehu answered, "when we still have all the witchcraft and idolatry that your mother Jezebel started?" <a href="/isv/2_kings/9.htm">International Standard Version</a> As soon as Joram noticed Jehu, he cried out, "Peace, Jehu?" Jehu replied, "What peace, given your mother Jezebel's prostitution and all of her witchcraft?" <a href="/msb/2_kings/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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?? <a href="/net/2_kings/9.htm">NET Bible</a> When Jehoram saw Jehu, he asked, "Is everything all right, Jehu?" He replied, "How can everything be all right as long as your mother Jezebel promotes idolatry and pagan practices?" <a href="/nheb/2_kings/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?" <a href="/wbt/2_kings/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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 lewd acts of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? <a href="/web/2_kings/9.htm">World English Bible</a> When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_kings/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And it comes to pass, at Jehoram’s seeing Jehu, that he says, “Is there peace, Jehu?” And he says, “What [is] the peace, while the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel, and her witchcrafts, are many?” <a href="/ylt/2_kings/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And it cometh to pass, at Jehoram's seeing Jehu, that he saith, 'Is there peace, Jehu?' and he saith, 'What is the peace, while the whoredoms of Jezebel thy mother, and her witchcrafts, are many?' <a href="/slt/2_kings/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And it will be when Jehoram saw Jehu, and he will say, Is it peace? and Jehu will say, What the peace, while the fornication of Jezebel thy mother and her sorceries are many?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_kings/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace ? so long as the fornications of Jezabel thy mother, and her many sorceries are in their vigour. <a href="/cpdv/2_kings/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And when Joram had seen Jehu, he said, “Is there peace, Jehu?” And he responded: “What is peace? For still the fornications of your mother, Jezebel, and her many poisons, are thriving.” <a href="/nabre/2_kings/9.htm">New American Bible</a> When Joram recognized Jehu, he asked, “Is everything all right, Jehu?” Jehu replied, “How could everything be all right as long as all the harlotry and sorcery of your mother Jezebel continues?” <a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the many whoredoms and sorceries of your mother Jezebel continue?”<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And Jehu answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? <a href="/hpbt/2_kings/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And when Yoram saw Yahu, he said to him: “Peace!” Yahu said to Yahu: “What is the peace of the whoredom of Izabeil your mother or of her many witchcrafts?”<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_kings/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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 harlotries of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?' <a href="/sep/2_kings/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And it came to pass when Joram saw Ju, that he said, Is it peace, Ju? And Ju said, How can it be peace? as yet there are the whoredoms of thy mother Jezabel, and her abundant witchcrafts. <a href="/parallel/2_kings/9-22.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=3138" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_kings/9.htm">Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah</a> …21“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. 22<a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: way·hî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3088.htm" title="3088: yə·hō·w·rām (N-proper-ms) -- From Yhovah and ruwm; Jehovah-raised; Jehoram, the name of a Syrian and of three Israelites.">When Joram</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/7200.htm" title="7200: kir·’ō·wṯ (Prep-k:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">saw</a> <a href="/hebrew/3058.htm" title="3058: yê·hū (N-proper-ms) -- The LORD is He, the name of several Isr. From Yhovah and huw'; Jehovah He; Jehu, the name of five Israelites.">Jehu,</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 asked,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7965.htm" title="7965: hă·šā·lō·wm (Art:: N-ms) -- Or shalom; from shalam; safe, i.e. well, happy, friendly; also welfare, i.e. Health, prosperity, peace.">“Have you come in peace,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3058.htm" title="3058: yê·hū (N-proper-ms) -- The LORD is He, the name of several Isr. From Yhovah and huw'; Jehovah He; Jehu, the name of five Israelites.">Jehu?”</a> <a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: māh (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">“How</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">can there be</a> <a href="/hebrew/7965.htm" title="7965: haš·šā·lō·wm (Art:: N-ms) -- Or shalom; from shalam; safe, i.e. well, happy, friendly; also welfare, i.e. Health, prosperity, peace.">peace,”</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 replied,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7227.htm" title="7227: hā·rab·bîm (Art:: Adj-mp) -- Much, many, great. By contracted from rabab; abundant.">“as long as</a> <a href="/hebrew/2183.htm" title="2183: zə·nū·nê (N-mpc) -- Fornication. From zanah; adultery; figuratively, idolatry.">the idolatry</a> <a href="/hebrew/3785.htm" title="3785: ū·ḵə·šā·p̄e·hā (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3fs) -- Sorcery. From kashaph; magic.">and witchcraft</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mə·ḵā (N-fsc:: 2ms) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">of your mother</a> <a href="/hebrew/348.htm" title="348: ’î·ze·ḇel (N-proper-fs) -- Queen of Isr. with King Ahab. From 'iy and Zbul; Izebel, the wife of king Ahab.">Jezebel abound?”</a> 23Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/1_kings/16-30.htm">1 Kings 16:30-33</a> However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him. / 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. ... <a href="/1_kings/21-25.htm">1 Kings 21:25-26</a> (Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel. / He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.) <a href="/2_kings/3-2.htm">2 Kings 3:2-3</a> And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made. / Nevertheless, he clung to the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them. <a href="/2_kings/10-18.htm">2 Kings 10:18-28</a> Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot. / Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal. / And Jehu commanded, “Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they announced it. ... <a href="/2_kings/21-11.htm">2 Kings 21:11</a> “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin, <a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20</a> 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. <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-14</a> My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin. <a href="/micah/6-16.htm">Micah 6:16</a> You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.” <a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">Nahum 3:4</a> because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft. <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9</a> Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Ezekiel 16:25-26</a> At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. / You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger. <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9-10</a> Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. <a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a> The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. <a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm">Ephesians 5:5</a> For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5-6</a> Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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 prostitutions of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?Is it peace<a href="/2_kings/9-17.htm">2 Kings 9:17</a> 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?What peace<a href="/2_kings/9-18.htm">2 Kings 9:18</a> 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.<a href="/isaiah/57-19.htm">Isaiah 57:19-21</a> I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him… the whoredoms<a href="/1_kings/16-30.htm">1 Kings 16:30-33</a> And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him… <a href="/1_kings/18-4.htm">1 Kings 18:4</a> For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)<a href="/1_kings/19-1.htm">1 Kings 19:1,2</a> And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/30-9.htm">Abound</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-23.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Arts</a> <a href="/1_kings/21-26.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm">Fornications</a> <a href="/2_kings/7-15.htm">Full</a> <a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-23.htm">Jehoram's</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-21.htm">Jehu</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm">Jezebel</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm">Jez'ebel</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-21.htm">Joram</a> <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Lewd</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-26.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-19.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-13.htm">Possible</a> <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-29.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-3.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/exodus/8-18.htm">Sorceries</a> <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/1_samuel/15-23.htm">Witchcraft</a> <a href="/revelation/9-21.htm">Witchcrafts</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/4-7.htm">Abound</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-34.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-17.htm">Arts</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-12.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">Fornications</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-24.htm">Full</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/21-2.htm">Jehoram's</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-24.htm">Jehu</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm">Jezebel</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm">Jez'ebel</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-23.htm">Joram</a> <a href="/proverbs/23-27.htm">Lewd</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-13.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-31.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/6-18.htm">Possible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-20.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-29.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-9.htm">Sorceries</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/21-13.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-6.htm">Witchcraft</a> <a href="/micah/5-12.htm">Witchcrafts</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 9</div>1. <a href="/2_kings/9-1.htm">Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth Gilead</a> 4. <a href="/2_kings/9-4.htm">The prophet having done his message, flees</a> 11. <a href="/2_kings/9-11.htm">Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth</a> 27. <a href="/2_kings/9-27.htm">Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem</a> 30. <a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm">Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs.</a> </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'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_kings/9.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_kings/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/2_kings/9.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” Joram, also known as Jehoram, was the king of Israel and the son of Ahab and Jezebel. His inquiry about peace reflects the political instability and tension of the time. Jehu, a commander in the army, had been anointed by a prophet to become king and to execute judgment on the house of Ahab. The question of peace is ironic, as Joram is unaware of Jehu's divine mission to overthrow him. This moment is a turning point in Israel's history, as it marks the beginning of the end for the dynasty of Ahab, fulfilling the prophecy given to Elijah (<a href="/1_kings/21-21.htm">1 Kings 21:21-24</a>).“How can there be peace,” he replied, Jehu's response highlights the impossibility of peace under the current spiritual and moral conditions in Israel. The rhetorical question underscores the divine mandate Jehu carries to cleanse Israel from the sins introduced by Ahab and Jezebel. This reflects the biblical principle that true peace cannot exist where there is persistent sin and rebellion against God. Jehu's mission is not just political but also spiritual, as he is tasked with eradicating the idolatry that has plagued the nation.“as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?” Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, was notorious for promoting Baal worship and persecuting the prophets of Yahweh. Her influence led Israel into deep idolatry and witchcraft, practices that were abominations to God (<a href="/deuteronomy/18-10.htm">Deuteronomy 18:10-12</a>). The mention of Jezebel's idolatry and witchcraft serves as an indictment of the spiritual corruption she introduced. This aligns with the broader biblical narrative where leaders' sins have national consequences. Jehu's mission to eliminate Jezebel and her influence is a fulfillment of God's judgment pronounced by Elijah (<a href="/1_kings/21-23.htm">1 Kings 21:23</a>). This act of judgment is a type of Christ's ultimate victory over sin and evil, as Jehu's cleansing of Israel prefigures the final eradication of sin at Christ's return.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/joram.htm">Joram (Jehoram)</a> The king of Israel, son of Ahab and Jezebel, known for continuing the idolatrous practices of his parents. 2. <a href="/topical/j/jehu.htm">Jehu</a> Anointed by God through the prophet Elisha to be king over Israel and tasked with eradicating the house of Ahab and the worship of Baal. 3. <a href="/topical/j/jezebel.htm">Jezebel</a> The mother of Joram, infamous for promoting Baal worship and witchcraft in Israel. 4. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The northern kingdom, often led astray by its kings into idolatry and away from the worship of Yahweh. 5. <a href="/topical/i/idolatry_and_witchcraft.htm">Idolatry and Witchcraft</a> Practices condemned by God, prevalent in Israel due to Jezebel's influence, representing spiritual adultery and rebellion against God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry</a> Idolatry leads to spiritual decay and separation from God. Just as Israel suffered under Jezebel's influence, we must guard against modern forms of idolatry in our lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_godly_leadership.htm">The Role of Godly Leadership</a> Jehu's mission underscores the importance of leaders who uphold God's standards. We should pray for and support leaders who seek to honor God in their decisions. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_discernment.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Discernment</a> Jehu's recognition of the root cause of Israel's unrest—idolatry and witchcraft—teaches us to discern the spiritual issues underlying societal problems. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_righteous_action.htm">The Call to Righteous Action</a> Jehu's decisive action against the house of Ahab challenges us to take bold steps in addressing sin and promoting righteousness in our communities. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_compromise.htm">The Danger of Compromise</a> Joram's failure to break away from his mother's practices serves as a warning against compromising our faith for cultural or familial acceptance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 9</a> <a href="/q/who_was_king_ahaziah_biblically.htm">Who was King Ahaziah in biblical history?</a> <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> <a href="/q/why_isn't_solomon's_wealth_in_other_records.htm">If Solomon truly surpassed all other kings in riches and wisdom (2 Chronicles 9:22), why is this not clearly reflected in other ancient Near Eastern records?</a> <a href="/q/how_did_jehu_easily_execute_ahaziah.htm">In 2 Chronicles 22:9, how could Jehu swiftly seize and execute Ahaziah without apparent resistance, given Ahaziah's royal status and resources?</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>(22) Is it peace, Jehu?--Joram meant, "Is all well at the seat of war?" Jehu's reply left no doubt of his intentions. He assumes the part of champion of the legitimate worship against Jezebel and her foreign innovations, and the lawless tyrannies by which she sought to enforce them. (Comp. <a href="/context/2_kings/9-25.htm" title="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 you rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden on him;">2Kings 9:25-26</a>.)What peace . . . are so many?--Rather, What is the peace during the whoredoms of thy mother, and her many witchcrafts--i.e., so long as they continue?Whoredoms.--In the spiritual sense, i.e., idolatries. (See Note on <a href="/1_chronicles/5-25.htm" title="And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.">1Chronicles 5:25</a>.)Witchcrafts.--Sorceries; the use of spells and charms, common among Semitic idolaters. (Comp. the prohibitions in the Law (<a href="/exodus/22-18.htm" title="You shall not suffer a witch to live.">Exodus 22:18</a>; <a href="/context/deuteronomy/18-10.htm" title="There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.">Deuteronomy 18:10-11</a>.) A great number of the Assyrian tablets contain magical formulas, incantations, and exorcisms. Babylonia was the home of the pseudo-science of magic; and the oldest collection of such formulas is that of Sargina king of Agade (Accad), compiled in seventy tablets, about 2200 B.C. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 22. - And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? Still the same question is asked; but we cannot be sure that it is asked in exactly the same sense. Something in the aspect of Jehu, and in his furious haste, may by this time have alarmed the king. Or possibly he maybe merely repeating the question put through his messengers, and still unanswered, Is all well with the army or no? Has there been any disaster?" Jehu, at any rate, chooses to understand his vague phrase in the former sense, as if he had asked, "Is it peace between thee and me?" and answers in the negative. And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witch-crafts are so many? literally, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and those many witchcrafts of hers continue. By "whoredoms" are meant idolatries, as so frequently in Scripture (<a href="/leviticus/19-29.htm">Leviticus 19:29</a>; <a href="/leviticus/20-5.htm">Leviticus 20:5</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2, 9</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/13-17.htm">Jeremiah 13:17</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm">Ezekiel 16:17</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/20-30.htm">Ezekiel 20:30</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Ezekiel 23:11</a>, etc.; <a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2</a>; <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12</a>; <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Hosea 5:4</a>; <a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">Nahum 3:4</a>, etc.); by "witchcrafts" all those magical practices which were so common at the time in Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, and no doubt also in Phoenicia, and which were so strictly forbidden by the Mosaic Law (<a href="/exodus/22-18.htm">Exodus 22:18</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/18-10.htm">Deuteronomy 18:10</a>). Besides the Baal-worship, Jezebel had introduced these unhallowed practices into the kingdom of Israel. Jehu reproaches Joram with allowing them, and declares that there can be no peace between him and his master under ouch circumstances. Having gained his object and got within bowshot of the unsuspecting monarch, he throws off the mask and declares uncompromising hostility. "No man could use such terms of the queen-mother who was willing any longer to be a subject." <a href="/commentaries/2_kings/9-22.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>When Joram יְהוֹרָם֙ (yə·hō·w·rām) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3088.htm">Strong's 3088: </a> Jehoram -- 'the LORD is exalted', the name of several Israelites saw כִּרְא֤וֹת (kir·’ō·wṯ) Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see Jehu, יֵה֔וּא (yê·hū) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3058.htm">Strong's 3058: </a> Jehu -- 'the LORD is He', the name of several Israelites he asked, וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say “Have you come in peace, הֲשָׁל֣וֹם (hă·šā·lō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7965.htm">Strong's 7965: </a> Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace Jehu?” יֵה֑וּא (yê·hū) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3058.htm">Strong's 3058: </a> Jehu -- 'the LORD is He', the name of several Israelites “How מָ֣ה (māh) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> What?, what!, indefinitely what can there be עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while peace,” הַשָּׁל֔וֹם (haš·šā·lō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7965.htm">Strong's 7965: </a> Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace he replied, וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say “as long as הָרַבִּֽים׃ (hā·rab·bîm) Article | Adjective - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7227.htm">Strong's 7227: </a> Much, many, great the idolatry זְנוּנֵ֞י (zə·nū·nê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2183.htm">Strong's 2183: </a> Adultery, idolatry and witchcraft וּכְשָׁפֶ֖יהָ (ū·ḵə·šā·p̄e·hā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3785.htm">Strong's 3785: </a> Sorcery of your mother אִמְּךָ֛ (’im·mə·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> A mother, ) Jezebel abound?” אִיזֶ֧בֶל (’î·ze·ḇel) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_348.htm">Strong's 348: </a> Jezebel -- queen of Israel with King Ahab <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_kings/9-22.htm">2 Kings 9:22 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 9:22 It happened when Joram saw Jehu that (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_kings/9-21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 9:21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 9:21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_kings/9-23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 9:23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 9:23" /></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>