Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 9:8
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:
8. On this verse see the notes on 1Ki 14:10. The entire family is doomed. God will cut off from Ahab every man child. (R.V.)
and him that is shut up and left in Israel ] R.V. him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel. The phrase is intended to embrace every one, young or old, bond or free.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish,…. Be cut off by death, and that in a violent manner, not one should escape:
and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel; of these phrases,
[See comments on 1Ki 14:10] [See comments on 1Ki 21:21]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) For.And.
Shall perish.Syriac, Arabic, Vulg., I will cause to perish (different Hebrew points). The LXX. has, and at the hand of all the house of Ahab, a difference of reading which favours the ordinary Hebrew text.
Him that is shut up and left (and him that is left).Reuss imitates the alliteration of the original, quil soit cach ou lch en Israel.
For the rest of the verse see 1Ki. 21:21, and comp. 1Ki. 14:10.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ki 9:8 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:
Ver. 8. And him that is shut up and left in Israel, ] i.e., Not only him who is laid hold on by thee, but him also that shall escape thee, or be let go by thee.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
him that, &c. = every male.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will cut off: 1Ki 14:10, 1Ki 14:11, 1Ki 21:21, 1Ki 21:22
him that pisseth: 1Sa 25:22
him that is shut up: 2Ki 14:26, Deu 32:36
Reciprocal: 2Ki 8:18 – the house 2Ki 10:17 – he slew 1Ch 12:1 – while he yet Neh 6:10 – shut up Job 27:14 – children
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 9:8. For the whole house of Ahab shall perish That is, all his posterity and all his kindred. Jehu, therefore, having received such a charge, is to be considered, in what he afterward did to the house of Ahab, as acting not out of a spirit of revenge, for he had no quarrel with the house of Ahab; but, as the minister of God, who, by his prophet, authorized and enjoined him to do what follows.