Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 9:34
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.
34. And when he was come in ] To the palace, where now he was master. Not only the eunuchs of Jezebel, but the household of Joram appears to have been ready to serve him, for the queen-mother is hardly dead before Jehu is set down to a banquet in the palace.
and said, Go, see now this cursed woman] [R.V. And he said, See now to this cursed woman ] The ‘Go’ of A.V. is of course implied but not expressed in the original. By ‘cursed’ he means that she has brought God’s curse upon herself by her idolatry and bad example. It is no objurgation of his own. The word is the same that is employed in that solemn list of God’s curses on evil-doing in Deuteronomy 27, 28.
she is a king’s daughter ] Jezebel was daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. See note on 1Ki 16:31.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Leaving the mangled body on the bare earth, Jehu went to the banquet. It was, no doubt, important that he should at once show himself to the court as king. In calling Jezebel this cursed one, Jehu means to remind his hearers that the curse of God had been pronounced upon her by Elijah 2Ki 9:36, and so to justify his own conduct.
A kings daughter – Merely as the widow of Ahab and mother of Jehoram, Jehu would not have considered Jezebel entitled to buriah. But she was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians (marginal reference), and so a princess born. This would entitle her to greater respect. Wilfully to have denied her burial would have been regarded as an unpardonable insult by the reigning Sidonian monarch.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 34. She is a king’s daughter.] Jezebel was certainly a woman of a very high lineage. She was daughter of the king of Tyre; wife of Ahab, king of Israel; mother of Joram, king of Israel; mother-in-law of Joram, king of Judah; and grandmother of Ahaziah, king of Judah.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
This he suddenly commanded: either because he had forgot the charge given him above, 2Ki 9:10, or because having done his own business, he was careless about Gods work, and the fulfilling of his threatening.
For she is a kings daughter: see 1Ki 16:31. He doth not say, because she was a kings wife, lest he should seem to show any respect to that wicked and cursed house of Ahab, which God had devoted to ignominy and utter destruction.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And when he was come in,…. To the palace:
he did eat and drink; to refresh himself after so long a march, and doing such execution:
and said, go see now this cursed woman; who had been the means of bringing a curse on Israel through her idolatry, and upon Ahab and his family, and upon herself, body and soul, being cursed of God and of men:
and bury her; forgetting the prophecy concerning her, though afterwards he remembered it:
for she is a king’s daughter: the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, 1Ki 16:31 and therefore, in honour to royal dignity, though a cursed woman, he ordered the interment of her; or “though” she is the daughter of one of the kings of the nations of the world, as Kimchi, yet honour must be given to whom it is due.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Jehu thereupon entered the palace, ate and drank, and then said to his men: “Look for this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.” , the woman smitten by the curse of God.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(34) And when . . . drink.Rather, And he went in (into the palace), and ate and drank. 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.
Go, see now.Rather, Look, I pray, after.
This cursed woman.Jehu was thinking of the curse pronounced on Jezebel by the prophet Elijah. (See next verse.)
She is a kings daughter.Compare 1Ki. 16:31.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
34. He did eat and drink This scene of hilarity and cheer in the midst of such fearful bloodshed makes one shudder. But the minister of doom to Ahab’s guilty house must needs be such a one as Jehu. Tenderness and sympathy would unfit the avenger of blood for his work of death.
She is a king’s daughter Yes, and a king’s widow and a king’s mother. But not till after his feast does Jehu reflect that so much royalty and greatness have fallen. He had left the mangled corpse of the once mighty Jezebel on the mounds of offal outside the gate, a prey to the dogs which in the East ever prowl about such spots.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 9:34 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.
Ver. 34. And bury her. ] He had forgot, belike, at present, the prophecy of Elijah, that dogs should eat her flesh, which yet soon after he remembereth. 2Ki 9:36
For she is a king’s daughter.] Meaning Ethbaal king of Zidon, whom he was loath to incense.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
a king’s daughter. A daughter of Eth-baal, king of Zidon (1Ki 16:31).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
he did eat: 1Ki 18:41, Est 3:15, Amo 6:4
this cursed woman: 1Ki 21:25, Pro 10:7, Isa 65:15, Mat 25:41
she is a king’s: 1Ki 16:31
Reciprocal: 2Ki 3:2 – and like 2Ch 22:9 – Because Job 12:21 – poureth Psa 37:10 – thou Ecc 8:10 – so Isa 14:19 – thou Jer 34:20 – and their Luk 16:22 – and was buried
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 9:34. Go see now this cursed woman She had been the greatest delinquent in the house of Ahab. She had introduced Baal; slain the Lords prophets; contrived the murder of Naboth; excited her husband first, and then her sons, to do wickedly. She had been a curse to her country, and one whose memory all who loved their country execrated. Three reigns her reign had lasted, but now, at length, her day was come to fall, and meet with the due reward of her deeds. And bury her, for she is a kings daughter He does not say, because she was a kings wife, lest he should seem to show any respect to that wicked house of Ahab, which God had devoted to ignominy and destruction. When Jehu gave this order about burying Jezebel, he seems to have for gotten the prediction of the prophet, and the charge given, 2Ki 9:10. But though he had forgotten it, God had not: while he was eating and drinking, the dogs had devoured her dead body; so that there was nothing left but her bare scull, (the painted face was gone,) and her feet and hands. The hungry dogs paid no respect to the dignity of her extraction: a kings daughter was no more to them than a common person. It is probable, when the horsemen were gone, who trod her under foot, the footmen stripped her, and left her in her own blood exposed to the dogs, that came out of the city in great numbers, by the ordination of Providence, and with a more than common hunger, otherwise they could not have devoured the body in so short a time.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
9:34 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 {o} king’s daughter.
(o) That is, of the king of Zidon, 1Ki 16:31.